literacy

This Pakistani Festival Makes Education a Fun Activity

Zubeida Mustafa / Truthdig Feb 15, 2018 In a country where public school systems are failing, a growing nonprofit organization shows students and teachers how to revitalize learning. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

America the Illiterate

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Sep 1, 2016 The change from a print-based to an image-based society has transformed our nation. All the traditional tools of democracies—including dispassionate scientific and historical truth, facts, news and rational debate—are useless instruments in a world that lacks the capacity to use them. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

US Left Behind

Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons May 28, 2015 Dig deeper

Chris Hedges on the ‘Disintegrated’ Media, Cultural Illiteracy

BLANK Mar 17, 2011 In case it wasn't clear from his columns, Chris Hedges is not optimistic about the state of American media and chagrined by the future of a culture in which "people don't read anymore," as he notes in this interview with Media Roots. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Stephen King: If You Don’t Read, ‘You’ve Got the Army, Iraq’

Staff / Truthdig May 6, 2008 Author Stephen King made an appearance last month at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., where he discussed, among other things, the importance of literacy. As King put it: "I don't want to sound like an ad, a public service ad on TV, but the fact is if you can read, you can walk into a job later on. If you don't, then you've got, the Army, Iraq, I don't know, something like that." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

When Teachers Are the Dropouts

Paul Cummins / Truthdig Apr 26, 2008 Much is made of the dropout rate in America's schools, and usually it's the students who are the focus of the discussion. But what happens when teachers themselves opt out of their roles in the classroom? [In this short analysis, Truthdig educational expert Paul Cummins looks at teachers' heartbreak, frustration and depression.] Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Public Schools Mulling Bible Literacy Class

Staff / Truthdig Jan 27, 2006 The high school course on the Bible's influence on society would be an elective storyIt's such an obvious end run around the Constitution's Establishment Clause that we'll hold fire But check this: The course textbook contains a boxed feature that shows how the Bible was used "to justify and even encourage anti-Semitism" Wow! A whole boxed feature? We wonder if there's a footnote about that whole Spanish Inquisition thing . Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )