It took a number of years before Congress was able to pass a law demanding a literacy test for immigrants.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

He says what is most important is that cities support the kinds of literacy methods that the study examines.

VOA: special.2009.03.27

He says the extent and quality of long-term literacy is important to individual economic success and quality of life in a community and a nation.

VOA: special.2009.03.27

Former President George Bush formed the President's Advisory Council on Financial Literacy last year.

VOA: special.2009.04.10

He is also working on a similar literacy study for cities around the world.

VOA: special.2009.03.27

We asked a literacy professor at Vanderbilt University in Nashville,Tennessee.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

April is National Financial Literacy Month in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.04.10

Some proposed a literacy test.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

The races which would suffer most under a literacy test would be those with which the English-speaking people have never united, and who are most different from the great majority of the people of the United States."

VOA: special.2010.05.20

India's literacy rate is 64 percent. But studies have shown that a number of those counted as literate can barely read or write.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

Each year since 1995,the company has commissioned a survey on science literacy and workplace issues.

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

"We have things for whatever people's passion is, literacy,the environment, AIDS,seniors,animals, veterans,women's issues.

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

Efforts to strengthen math and science education come at a time when 15-year-old U.S.students rank 25th in math literacy and 30th in science literacy -- among the 57 countries participating in the Program for International Student Assessment.

VOA: standard.2010.05.10