literacy

Booker Prize Foundation to launch first children’s award

The prestigious Booker Prize Foundation announced Friday its most ambitious endeavor in two decades: the creation of the Children's Booker Prize, marking the first time the renowned literary institution has dedicated an award specifically to children's fiction. The new prize…

500-year-old Inca khipu reveals commoners were literate

A study of a 500-year-old Inca khipu made from human hair has overturned long-held assumptions about who could create and use these sophisticated record-keeping devices, revealing that commoners in the empire may have been literate in this ancient form of…