Britain moves to silence literacy critics

The British government has announced it will stop funding the Basic Skills Agency (BSA), putting the future of one of the country’s oldest education agencies in doubt. Ministers are blaming the excessively complex and bureaucratic education landscape for the tough decision, prompting accusations that they are the chief culprits. But those working in adult literacy and numeracy will inevitably suspect that government is stifling an organisation that has been a critic. Read more of this story in The Guardian (U.K.).