Sentences with phrase «illiteracy rate»

Finally, the system's long - term flaws are evident in the city's functional illiteracy rate of 40 percent among adults.

However, poor water sanitation, poverty and high illiteracy rates mean that Yemen does not have the social, economic or environmental factors needed for the extensive and safe use of milk substitutes.

Mastery learning has been hailed as the answer to rising illiteracy rates by some educators and criticized heavily by others, the speakers suggested.

Indonesia has succeeded in bringing adult illiteracy rates down from 15.4 million in 2004 to 7.5 million in 2010, and those rates continue to decrease.

We've included some statistics on illiteracy rates among juvenile and adult offenders to demonstrate how important a solid education is.

While the functional illiteracy rate of 22 percent for Virginia's young white male fourth - graders is five points lower than it was in 2003 (and better than the four percent decline nationwide), it is much lower than Florida's 11 percent decline in functional illiteracy, and the 16 percent decline among Alabama's young white men.

Illiteracy rates there are above 70 percent, and Afghan society is collectivist, meaning that even people who can read Army handbills or billboards will probably ignore them unless they hear otherwise from tribal and religious leaders.

Iraq, Libya, Syria, police brutality against afroamericans, the death penalty, stunning illiteracy rate, horrible income inequality, climate change denier - in - chief, medieval health care system, unchecked military - industrial complex.

We're going to ensure that we halve illiteracy rates within the next five years, and that we virtually eradicate the problem by 2020.

Created in 1921, in response to a 25 percent illiteracy rate among World War I soldiers, the event began as an attempt by the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Legion to generate public support for education.

It has an average elevation of over 3,000 feet and 75 percent of its population is rural, with illiteracy rates among people aged 15 or older at nearly 20 percent for men and 40 percent for women.

In Detroit, failed schools have contributed to an adult illiteracy rate pegged at 47 percent.

A number of concerned stakeholders from throughout the Arab nations joined Vodafone Egypt to bring the ebookstore to fruition, with many seeing this initiative as a way to combat the alarming illiteracy rates mentioned on the site.

A 2009 report by ALECSO, the Arab League's Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organisation, revealed an overall illiteracy rate of 35.6 percent in the Arab world compared with a global rate of 18 percent.

The next component we were interested in was how reading skills (or a lack thereof) during a child's early life translate to illiteracy rates later on.

The female illiteracy rate has dropped by 10 percentage points.

Muslim countries have extremely high illiteracy rates.

A recent Plaid Cymru press release stated: «We will aim to have illiteracy rates by the end of the next Assembly term.»

To conclude, this article shows that a lot of efforts have been made in Jamaica, to decrease the adult illiteracy rate.

The books are published by the Oxford University Press as a direct response to something that has been worrying educationalists for some while - the fact that boys vastly outnumber girls in illiteracy rates, and that many start secondary schools with very poor reading skills and no apparent interest in acquiring any.

Go visit Afghanistan, Iraq or Pakistan and learn about the high illiteracy rates, religious extremism, blasphemy laws and the strong desire to place Mohammad above all else.

Alabama and Mississippi: the most unhealthy region (e.g., the most obese, the most with cardiovascular diseases and etc.), the highest illiteracy rate, the highest teenage pregnancy rates, the most cities ranking in the top 25 most crimes, the most likely to regect scientific facts, the least taxed, the least to be unionized thus the highest proportion of the population in poverty... and of course, the most religious....

Right off the bat you can disregard 85 % of a population when you consider the illiteracy rate in most of these countries — they've never even heard of tennis.

She cited an increase in illiteracy rate, HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, obstetric fistula, maternal and infant mortalities as some of the dangers associated with the menace.

In 1909, an educator named Laurence C. Jones discovered that the illiteracy rate in Rankin County, Mississippi, was above 80 percent.

The illiteracy rate varies considerably between the sexes: 2.1 % for males compared to 7.4 % for females.

In 1952, the illiteracy rate for blacks 14 years of age or older (10.2 percent) was more than five times that of whites (1.8 percent).

If you want to return to the illiteracy rates of the 40s and 50s, use phonics.

Considering that the illiteracy rate globally is 89.5 % among young people, this is a huge demography to target for mLearning.

Indeed, in 1975, an Adult Literacy Survey declared that the illiteracy rate had decreased by 32 %.

Without public education for children, illiteracy rates will increase, and opportunities for workforce and community participation will decrease.

That illiteracy rate is something I struggle with every day as new inmates arrive.

The fact that we have an illiteracy rate of almost 50 % might be partly to blame for the popularity of science fiction.

Adult illiteracy rates are estimated to cost US tax payers hundreds of billions of dollars each year and illiteracy in adults can be connected to almost every socio - economic issue in the United States

Today, the illiteracy rate has dropped below 1 percent because of the United Arab Emirates» focus on improving access to quality education for all.