Sentences with phrase «with illiteracy rates»

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Religiosity is associated with lower I.Q.s, more paranoia, less education, scientific illiteracy, greater crime rates, higher homicide rates, and more STDs.

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.

As literacy rates rise, a clash with established structures of authority — structures predicated on the illiteracy of the masses — is never far away.

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....

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.

to consider should be the following: 1) the achievement of full employment or reduction in the unemployment rate; 2) increase the income distribution measured by the Gini index; 3) reduction of the levels of crime in society; 4) increase in service levels of education, health, housing and transport to the population; 5) increase of the investment in infrastructure, education, health, housing and sanitation; 6) increase in the HDI - Human Development Index, used by the United Nations, which takes into account GDP per capita, the longevity of people and their education (measured by illiteracy rate and the enrollment rates at various levels of education); and 7) increase of GNH (Gross National Happiness) indicator, which analyzes 73 variables that contribute most to the goal of achieving the well - being and satisfaction with life (See GNH posted in website

In 2005, West Virginia, saddled with the nation's highest rate of adult illiteracy and lowest per capita income, recognized that its schools urgently needed an overhaul if its students weren't going to fall off the charts in the fast - moving age of digital technology.

In the light of this situation, some national and foreign programs have been created to increase the literacy rate in Jamaica and help the country dealing with its main issues, closely related to illiteracy.

One of the saddest things about adult illiteracy and ESL language learners is not the staggering rates of adults who are still classified as functionally illiterate, or the numbers of immigrants who may learn to speak a language with some level of comfort and fluency but never develop basic reading skills; it's the... [Read more...]

One of the saddest things about adult illiteracy and ESL language learners is not the staggering rates of adults who are still classified as functionally illiterate, or the numbers of immigrants who may learn to speak a language with some level of comfort and fluency but never develop basic reading skills; it's the quality — or lack thereof — of instructional materials for adult learners.

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.

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