Sentences with phrase «higher literacy rates»

Increased attendance leads to higher literacy rates, and so on.

One of the major focuses for the recent event was the emphasis on government spending on education, which translates into higher literacy rates, a better level of English - language instruction which will allow more readers to enjoy English pleasure reading, and a growing interaction with tablet computers thanks to spending initiatives to put more tablets in schools at even the primary levels.

Experimental psychologist Steven Pinker believes we're getting less violent because we're getting smarter, thanks to higher literacy rates and more abstract thinking.

Most of its foreign employees and manufacturing facilities were already located in the Caribbean, and Gildan's founder and then CEO Greg Chamandy explained in a press release that the small island nation was attractive because of its high literacy rate and excellent telecommunications system.

At the same time, provincial government pouring money into new breastfeeding marketing campaign (with ads requiring a very high literacy rate to comprehend.)

Costa Rica, a centuries - old democracy with universal health care, no standing army and the highest literacy rate in Central America, has been relatively insulated from the corruption, narco - terrorism and civil wars that have plagued neighbors like Panama, Nicaragua and Guatemala.

Upon the conclusion of the American Revolution, our newly independent nation began to place an emphasis on public education; and by 1870, every state had free elementary schools, and the United States had one of the highest literacy rates in the world.

The passing of the Native Hawaiian Education Act (NHEA) draws attention to the high literacy rates of Hawaiians at the time of annexation and the sharp drop in such literacy during the period of American control.

And a convoluted tale it is, involving the country's wealth of natural resources (coal, iron, copper and water for powering machines and transporting goods), the comparatively high literacy rate that enabled common folk to educate themselves in science and technology, a patent system that protected the rights of inventors and gave them economic incentive to both create and refine devices, and a population large and wealthy enough to form a profitable market for products the new industries turned out.

With Cuba's high literacy rates in discussion this week ahead of US President Obama's visit to Havana, one of the industry representatives to the RICOH Executive Publishing Symposium in Boulder, Colorado, is talking about the Latin American market for self - published authors.

TONGA: With an economy based on farming, fishing and some tourism, there's not a huge demand for consumer books in Tonga, although the country has the highest literacy rate in the Pacific (over 98 %) and a good primary and secondary education system.

Costa Rica has one of the highest literacy rates in the world and is one of the most environmentally - conscious countries around.

At 99.8 %, Cuba has one of the highest literacy rates in the world and the art schools provide broad and rigorous instruction.

For example, look at the countries that claim 99 % or higher literacy rate.

Bitmari chose to establish itself in Zimbabwe on account of the country's high cell phone penetration, high literacy rate, high mobile banking usage and a willingness to adopt new currencies.

The state has the highest literacy rate in India and the longest life expectancy, and in general the people reflect this is in how content they seem.

Not exact matches

While the literacy rate in Ethiopia is 50 percent for males and 23 percent for females, 100 percent of people in most high - income countries, such as Canada and Norway, can read.

In a seven page report released Friday, Beata Caranci says the need for financial literacy has never been higher because of record low interest rates and household debt growing faster than income, something the millennial population seems unprepared to deal with.

Not surprisingly, data released this month from the the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority's Investor Education Foundation, which seeks to promote financial literacy, reveal high school students who are required to take personal finance courses have better average credit scores and lower debt delinquency rates as young adults.

As a demographic, atheists have higher IQs, incomes, education rates, and literacy rates, and more Nobel Prizes and university professorships.

However, Choffel explains, it wasn't all Dickensian tragedy in these mountains: «The literacy rate was unusually high among Savoyards because in the winter, grandmothers taught those kids who were still around to read.

Ana Rodrigues of the Centre for Functional and Evolutionary Ecology in France and her colleagues found that Amazonian towns in the midst of a deforestation binge initially see higher life expectancies, literacy rates, and incomes.

This is more than half of the total children out of school, living in countries that feature the deepest gender inequalities, the lowest literacy levels and some of the highest child death rates in the world.

Requiring writing assignments in every subject area will help boost literacy rates for middle and high school students, suggests the report.

The success has been astounding: over the past decade, the percentage of students meeting provincial standards in the annual literacy and numeracy tests for grades 3 and 6 has risen from 54 % to 71 %, and the high school graduation rate has grown from 68 % to 83 %.

In Pakistan, progress of educational indicators have been hampered by a range of issues like negligible budgetary allocations to education, low literacy and enrolment rates, significantly high dropout rates, and acute regional and gender inequalities (Shaikh, 2006).

Considering our high rates of childhood obesity, Read and Ride seemed like a perfect way to promote wellness and literacy in a fun way,» says Scott Ertl.

It is a well - known fact among historians like David McCullough that the literacy rates prior to compulsory schooling were much higher in states like Massachusetts.

Practical, Hands - On Financial Literacy Lessons Managing money is not an innate skill, as the high rate of debt in the U.S. shows.

National and international charities that support literacy that receive high Charity Navigator ratings.

On a four - point scale they rated at three or higher many aspects of their program preparation including a range of aspects of classroom management; language, literacy, and reading instruction (including teaching phonics); ability to teach mathematics; ability to use a range of assessments to improve their teaching and learning; and knowledge of content.

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She added: «The Scottish government has made great play in recent months about exam marking becoming ever more rigorous, yet, in English, at a time when there are concerns about literacy skills amongst school leavers, we learn that the English Higher pass rate has increased hugely.»

All were plagued with underdeveloped education systems, low levels of literacy (40 % in Portugal in the 1950s), low school completion, and high rates of emigration to the US.

Toews: I support the superintendent's commitment to addressing the achievement gap and her focus on educational outcomes such as improving third - grade literacy and high school graduation rates.

Last year, the Center for Education Innovation created easy - to - read «education scorecards» for every school district in the state so that parents — many lacking high levels of literacy or regular access to the Internet — would have clear information about test scores, graduation rates and teachers.

The Urban League's report states that these gains are a result of lower high school dropout rates, increased literacy actives by Black children at home, and a higher percentage of Black Americans between the ages of 18 and 24 earning associate's degrees.

At a time when Arizona is facing challenges that include improving literacy, the high school graduation rate, the recruitment and retention of effective teachers and leaders, and ensuring equitable funding for its schools, these are critical questions.

«Students across all grade levels made very significant literacy progress, and the high school students in particular demonstrated truly outstanding growth: four times the expected rate for students completing the recommended number of activities and nearly double the expected rate overall.

(Think early 19th Century America when literacy rates were higher than they are now.)

When we address the low graduation rates and underlying literacy issues facing young men of all socioeconomic backgrounds, we are also helping high - performing young women of all races and economic backgrounds succeed.

Sarah taught high school English and Humanities in both suburban and urban New Jersey public schools for 14 years, including seven years at the high - performing North Star Academy Charter School of Newark, where she chaired the Humanities Dept. and her students achieved a 100 % passing rate on the Language Arts / Literacy section of the HSPA in 2006 and 2007.

For example, African American children born in poverty who participated in early childhood education programs had higher graduation rates, higher adult earnings, and fewer arrests than their peers.102 A similar study found that students who participated in early intervention programs maintained higher high school GPAs, were two times more likely to have attended a four - year college, and were more likely to hold a job than their peers.103 Furthermore, research finds that participation in state - funded preschool programs improves children's language, literacy, and mathematical skills.104

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The study also found that black teachers rated black children's language and literacy skills higher upon school entry in the fall than white teachers did, but tended to report fewer gains in those skills at the end of the year, leading researchers to hypothesize that black teachers have higher standards for black children.

This pattern of growth gave this collaborative in Northeast Mississippi the highest rate of kindergarten literacy readiness in the state, along with the second highest rate of scaled score improvement in the state.

Kind of like how Massachusetts» literacy rate was 96 % in the year prior to compulsory public schooling, and has never been as high since.

Under her leadership, Mississippi has initiated aggressive education reforms that have increased literacy skills in pre-K through the 3rd grade, pushed student achievement on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) to improve at a faster rate than most other states, and increased the graduation rate to an all - time high of 83 percent.

In the state as a whole, literacy rates in some of the counties was as high as forty - four percent in 1992 and statewide dropped from twenty - one percent that year to fifteen percent in 2003, which brought the state closer to the national average of fourteen and a half percent.