The nation has woken up to the fact that a large number of Americans of high-school age and older are unable to read, write, or do mathematics beyond an elementary level, and that the limitation ...

Helping students learn to read is usually the job of early elementary educators. But teachers of older children—who report that nearly half of their students have difficulty reading—say they need more ...

Eric A. Hanushek received funding from the OECD to conduct the underlying study. He is affiliated with Stanford University, the National Bureau of Economic Research, the CESifo Network, and IZA.