A video showing Harvard students trying to pass a 1964 Louisiana Literacy test was released on Monday to bring awareness to barriers to voting in the past. The video was launched just prior to Tuesday ...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 did away with literacy tests. If a person failed the test, they were not allowed to vote. Dr. Thomas Ward, professor and department of history chair at Spring Hill ...

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A major laborers’ union with a large Hispanic immigrant membership is using an English literacy test to disqualify candidates from running for leadership positions in the union. The English competency ...

Earlier this week we posted a video of a group of Harvard students taking — and failing — a 50-year-old literacy test. The 1964 Louisiana Voter Literacy Test was originally distributed to ...

BRIDGEWATER - The Bridgewater-Raritan Regional Board of Education met Tuesday primarily to focus on continuing improvement of student standardized test scores on the NJASK (Grades 3-8), as well as on ...