We opened an adult literacy program in the basement of the old Carnegie branch I managed, almost four months from the day Merlene, one of our regular patrons, confided that she’d been pretending her ...

Librarians in academic settings are often focused on outreach to disciplinary instructors. The dream many of us have is for information literacy instruction to be organically embedded into all ...

As president and CEO of United for Literacy, a national organization dedicated to promoting literacy in every province and territory, I was pleased to read Andy Mitchell’s opinion piece about ...

This is a guest post composed by Zara Risoldi Cochrane, PharmD, Drug Information Specialist at Creighton University, as part of the NSF Science: Becoming the Messenger workshop in Lincoln, NE. Think ...

Despite increased access to devices and the internet, studies show that K–12 students still struggle to identify credible information. Rebecca Torchia is a web editor for EdTech: Focus on K–12.

Kira Hall isn’t a big fan of the term “service learning.” “The notion of service seems to suggest that people are giving up their precious time to help others,” says Hall, professor of linguistics and ...

JERSEY CITY, N.J. -- As CBS New York first reported this spring, the Teen Magazine Literacy Program has touched the lives of thousands of Jersey City students over its 20 years of operation. Over ...

Customers of Oakley’s beloved children’s bookstore Blue Manatee were thrown a curveball last December, when longtime owners John Hutton and Sandy Gross announced they were looking to pass the torch to ...