Sentences with phrase «percent illiteracy rate»

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.

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

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).

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

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

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.

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.