Sentences with phrase «functional literacy»

The report says 20 % of children start secondary school with a reading age below nine years and six months - generally considered the level of functional literacy.

We need networks and programs to offer well informed education resources to raise functional literacy levels in religion.

The curriculum emphasises the need for greater attention to be paid to students with special educational needs and emphasises the importance of achieving functional literacy and numeracy.

They zeroed in on Florida's A + Plan school reforms from 1999 that implemented an A-F grading system for schools, provided reading coaches for students, and set a third grade «reading gate» that required functional literacy as a precondition for promotion to the fourth grade.

As part of efforts to improve on previous training programmes, four hundred and fifty four facilitators are currently undergoing training sharpen their skills in functional literacy.

She then connected with ASK (Atma Swasthya Kendra), a Holistic Health Farm Community involved in village outreach programmes dealing with women's health, nutrition, sanitation, fertility awareness, and integrated functional literacy.

In Venezuela and Nepal, researchers also looked at functional literacy — the ability of the mothers to do everyday tasks such as tell time and read food labels or prescriptions.

What is more, the majority of adult literacy programs are made and implemented by NGOs, and levels of functional literacy remain low for national active population: about 70 % of workers that have basic skills in reading, writing and numeracy are unable to use these skills in an effective and competitive way in a context of global economy.

First and foremost businesses need young people with functional literacy and numeracy skills, and it is crucial that there is an understanding of how to practically apply these skills in context, as well as reforms to GCSE English and maths.»

In the past, Mississippi has had many students moved through the school system without developing functional literacy in the early grades.

Mississippi passed third grade «reading gate» legislation to ensure that elementary school students achieve functional literacy before being promoted to the fourth grade.

Not likely that a Christian would call his religion «Christinsanity,» but there's still time for you to achieve functional literacy.

Through the extension of compulsory education, subsidy of secondary education, provision of continuing equivalency education for specialized groups such as local leaders and the workforce, distance education and the establishment of community colleges across the country, we hope to upgrade the level of functional literacy.

In the UK there are 5.2 million people with only «functional literacy».

Local education like basic literacy and functional literacy are also considered ALS in the Philippines.

The ability to read — functional literacy — is one of the most important parts of elementary education.

Adult literacy problems are also common, affecting one in four who are intelligent but have not been able to attain a functional literacy level.

, Precursors of functional literacy (pp. 189 — 213).

Yet, the ability to write is essential for both functional literacy as well as college preparation.

I expect that healthy families are more stable; that the children of healthy families have better educational and emotional outcomes; that healthy families produce higher levels of functional literacy and educational attainment; and, that healthy families consume fewer social resources and contribute more to the economy.