Sentences with phrase «illiterate children»

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instead of allowing children to be born into abject poverty and instead of allowing kids with down syndrome to be born into the homes of junkies and illiterates, we can abort the children OR every person who shows up at an anti abortion rally gets a free baby to take home and raise.

This is the modest sum which needs to be invested each year in «social support» to guarantee universal access to drinking water within ten years (1,300 million individuals did not have access in 1997), universal access to basic education (1,000 million people are illiterate), universal access to basic healthcare (17 million children die each year from easily cured illnesses), universal access to adequate nourishment (2,000 million people suffer from anemia), universal access to sanitary infrastructures and universal access for women to gynecological and obstetric care.

News flash — Nobody gives a rat's dick what some illiterate schizophrenic child molesting jackass thinks about social and ethical questions.

Undoubtedly food grain production has increased fourfold but 653 per cent of children under four remain undernourished; literacy has doubled, yet half the population is illiterate, life expectancy has improved but only 927 females survive for every 1000 males.

I like the way Alan Hirsch describe the «message» of the Bible as being «simplex» simple because it can be understood by a child and an illiterate peasant complex, because we'll spend our entire life always discovering new aspects of it, and struggling to know more and more God and Jesus, and «the mystery» which Paul was running after (Phil 3)

Then, people all across the country said «Being fourth in the world isn't so bad, let's ensure that our children are scientifically illiterate, can't compete with foreigners in THEIR OWN UNIVERSITIES, and heck, if fourth ain't so bad, then being last in the world ain't much worse.

Without major public efforts in this field, the global super information highway is not likely to include the two billion people who live on less than $ 300 a year, or the more than 1 billion people who are illiterate and some 500 million children for whom there are no schools.

Any child who grows up illiterate, unable to read and write — or even semi-literate — can be considered handicapped.

Just because tech companies are churning out software for kids doesn't mean your child will turn out computer illiterate if she doesn't have computer time daily.

A preschool program in Israel that teaches people to be their children's first teachers even if they're illiterate.

On the other side of the equation, we have a population of children that is, by and large, food illiterate.

Because if he had actually succeeded in getting companies to set up their offerings so that they all came with filters on and you had to switch them off, the industry consensus is that while you'd stop some proportion of the technically illiterate from accessing porn, that would include few children — and it would also add massive impetus to the growing stampede towards the «Darknet» - a place quite beyond the ability of the authorities, at present, to police effectively.

Saatchi, which is owned by France's Publicis Groupe, SA, chose LifeStraw over a field of competitors that included a reusable controller to improve the distribution of IV fluids, a collapsible wheel that can be folded down for easier storage when not in use on bicycles or wheelchairs, an energy - efficient laptop designed for children in developing countries, a 3 - D display that uses special optics and software to project a hologramlike image of patient anatomy for cancer treatment, an inkjet printing system for fabricating tissue scaffolds on which cells can be grown, a visual prosthesis for bypassing a diseased or damaged eye and sending signals directly to the brain, books with embedded sound tracks to help educate illiterate adults on health issues, a phone that provides telecommunications coverage to poor rural populations in developing countries, and a brain - computer interface designed to help paralyzed people communicate via neural signals.

Now a long - term study carried out in Nicaragua has eliminated these factors by showing that teaching reading to poor adult women, who would otherwise have remained illiterate, has a direct effect on their children's health and survival.

Jackman is both sympathetic and compelling as the father driven beyond all reason to find his daughter; Dano shines as the illiterate man - child who may know more than we think, while Gyllenhaal gives his best performance since «Zodiac.»

This year's EFA Global Monitoring Report (GMR) shows that there are still some 57 million primary age children and 63 million adolescents out of school and about 781 million illiterate adults globally.

His mother, he continued, «says the government is intent on turning the children of America into illiterates.

The multiplicity of ills facing our nation's public schools can depress even the most optimistic.How can we be hopeful when we have 30 million illiterate children?And it is no longer just the well - being of our poorest children that we need worry about; our top - performing public schools are no match for the international competition.

By purchasing the $ 179.95 kit, the advertisements proclaim, children can become «super readers,» and illiterate adults, in the privacy of their own homes, can finally learn how to read.

A: I've given top priority to issues of equity and access for many disadvantaged groups, such as the illiterate, youth from remote rural areas, minority groups, the disabled, and children of migrant workers.

Commenting on the need of such programs, Development Alternatives says «In the most practical terms, an illiterate person can not ethically sign a contract, can not get vocational training, can not help their children with their schooling and can not communicate with family members in other towns and villages except by phone.

Girls and women still constitute the majority of out - of - school children and illiterate adults, and their learning opportunities are compromised by a number of in - school and out - of - school factors.

While nationally 30 percent of urban children read at grade level in fourth grade, Pennsylvania's urban schools successfully teach only 19 percent of their students to read proficiently in primary school, while the state's suburban schools teach more than half of their students to read well — approximately the same proportion left functionally illiterate in fourth grade by the state's urban schools.

And this is as true for children in our suburban schools — where one out of every four fourth - graders are functionally illiterate — as it is for our poorest and minority kids in urban and rural communities.

We have more children than ever completing primary school (92 %, according to the World Bank, 2015), yet in places where we trumpet most the increases in enrollment, many or even most children leave primary school essentially illiterate and innumerate (Spaull & Taylor, 2015).

There are now 172,078 fewer functionally - illiterate fourth - graders than in 2002, the year the No Child Left Behind Act was passed.

Chief executive Andrew Kay said: «Globally, almost 800 million people are illiterate and 100 million children don't attend school each day».

The child was not illiterate; he was disinterested in school, and I utilized the computer as the best way to capture the boy's attention.

The good news is that fewer poor and minority children are functionally illiterate.

The good news is that 256,795 fewer fourth - graders are functionally illiterate and on the path to despair than in 2002, the year after the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act, based on Dropout Nation «s estimates of federal enrollment data.

Nor can the nation have one out of every five white and Asian children be functionally illiterate.

Guatemala has the lowest rate of child literacy in Central America, and it is estimated that over 50 % of the indigenous population is illiterate.

It also noted «surprising» cases where exceptional funding was not granted, for example, «an illiterate woman with learning, hearing and speech difficulties» facing a child contact application.

Both lawyers are representing child soldiers held at Guantanamo Bay; Frakt as a military lawyer for an illiterate Afghan teen named Mohammed Jawad, and Edney for the only known Canadian citizen at Guantanamo, Omar Khadr.

On the same order, the Judge was obviously illiterate and couldn't read a form and ordered too much child support.

Generations of «emotionally illiterate» individuals spring forth, continuing the cycle, and parents, wounded by the shortcomings of their parents, ward off associated painful emotions through defense mechanisms, which can limit their ability to be emotionally present with their own children.