Learn about the many negative effects of limited health literacy and simple steps you can take to improve health care ...

Adult literacy challenges deepen health inequities, limit opportunity and are linked to incarceration. Even so, efforts to ...

Literacy at less than a ninth-grade level almost doubles the five-year risk of mortality among elderly people, regardless of education, socioeconomic status, or health, according to a study led by a ...

Throughout Front and Center, our continuing collaboration with WBEZ , we’ve been exploring issues of literacy and how that affects people in... Jul 05, 2012 — Throughout Front and Center, our ...

The western practices of literacy contrasted with culturally different practices of literacy in world history In today’s world, the ability to write and read is the primary condition of literacy, ...

Walking through the hallways of the middle school where I teach, I inevitably hear students talk about music Web sites, blogs, Web-based photo albums, Facebook pages, and other forms of new media. If ...

ithout doubt, the rapid advancement of information technology has compelled us to fathom the issue of literacy (specifically writing activity) in an intricate way. Once conceived as an autonomous and ...