One in six adults in the UK have poor or no reading skills. Those who came to it later in life share their stories ...

Adult reading skills were measured with the ART-2 Adult Reading Test, which evaluates prose reading accuracy, comprehension (both silent and aloud), and reading speed (both silent and aloud).

The 67% of eighth-graders who scored at a basic or better reading level in 2024 was the lowest share since testing began in ...

Japan ranked either first or second in all three categories—literacy, numeracy and adaptive problem-solving skills—of an international survey of adult skills. The Organization for Economic ...

Adult literacy problems are tricky to resolve and lack a one-size-fits-all solution. When adults join reading programs, they can be at literacy levels ranging from third graders to high school seniors ...

The newspaper also quotes data from an educational researcher at the American Enterprise Institute, Nat Malkus, whose research shows an echoing decline in tests of adults’ reading skills over ...