Authors drive to slash illiteracy
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More than 500 writers deliver a letter to Gordon Brown calling for a "push" to eliminate childhood illiteracy.
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Proposals to help poor countries work their own way out of debt are being published by a Tory policy group.
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LAGOS, Nigeria -- Seventeen-year-old Stella Felix rises at 5 a.m. to do chores and then walks nearly an hour to school. She has to share textbooks with schoolmates because her parents can't afford to buy them, and she does homework by candlelight.
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During a presidential campaign in which voters are sharply divided, a survey of avid readers, released today, finds some common ground - at least when it comes to recommended reading for the candidates.
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When Congress decided to appropriate $2 million in fall 2001 to help D.C. kindergartners and first-graders learn to read, city school officials were told that the money could be spent only on the Voyager Expanded Learning literacy program, a new product with virtually no track record. They had ju...
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How to create sustainable employment for impoverished, mostly illiterate African populations residing primarily in rural areas is the challenge the African Union aims to tackle at a summit opening Wednesday in Burkina Faso.
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Free English lessons will be targeted at migrants who are poor or socially excluded, under government proposals.
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Children starting primary and secondary schools will receive free books to help raise reading levels,  Chancellor Gordon Brown says.
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About 16,000 words have succumbed to  pressures of the Internet age and lost their hyphens in a new  edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.
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NOBLEJAS, Spain Â A small-town Spanish mayor concerned about a high dropout rate in local schools has devised a way to keep kids studying Â pay them.
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A few simple keystrokes may soon turn blather into books.
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Cheap and adaptable, pre-recorded lectures are drawing interest from educators in the US and Central America.
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ROME, Sep 13 (IPS) - It might be taken for granted in Europe that the  imparting of  knowledge through books is available to all,  regardless of their  social status. But in reality, however, it  is a different story.
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Determined to prove that a national apology to Australia's indigenous population is more than empty words, the government on Thursday promised more teachers to tackle widespread illiteracy in Outback Aboriginal communities.
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Commonwealth ministers have set guidelines for rich nations recruiting teachers from poorer counterparts.
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Russell Wattenberg had an idea: Give books away - preferably in bulk.
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The authors of Empire, the It book of postmodern philosophy, have a new plan to save the world