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04-18-2005 11:41 AM ET (US)
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Edited by author 04-18-2005 11:47 AM
Genghis Khan: new posterboy for literacy?This'll definitely get the boys reading. Home
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04-26-2005 10:09 AM ET (US)
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Literacy in the Arab worldA polemical article on education in the Arab countries; it's all a little frightening, folks: Sadly, the bottom spot of the literacy rate, according to the EFA report 2003-4 was reserved for no other than Iraq, a country that was once recognised for being a Third World model of development. Along with Cuba, Iraq once offered universal education and health coverage. Now, following 15 years tainted by crippling sanctions, unjustified and bloody war, and a self-consumed and brutal occupation only 39.3 per cent of Iraqis can read. What's the statistical figure measuring poverty and anger I wonder? Home
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05-16-2005 11:16 AM ET (US)
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Literacy IdolTen almost good-looking wordies vote each other off the island, or, out of the Reference Library, Special Collections Rreading Room based on who can get along best with whom using the most erudite vocabulary. Well, not exactly -- Canada Post has an initiative worth knowing about. Home
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06-15-2005 09:53 AM ET (US)
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Wrong war poetryStudents in England were taught the wrong syllabus for their GCSE English exams. Is this a Monty Python skit; I seem to recall? Could this be a clue as to why testing is inherently ludicrous and teaching to a test even more so? Home
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08-09-2005 07:06 AM ET (US)
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Reading vs the suicide rateA new literacy programme aimed at young Natives on isolated reserves, is working against abnormally high suicide rates. Home
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08-10-2005 09:04 PM ET (US)
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11-29-2005 04:49 PM ET (US)
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Seattle is the most literate cityYet they couldn't find a picture of someone reading for their article. In other news, the South is illiterate. Home
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11-30-2005 09:47 AM ET (US)
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How ironic, an article on literacy in USA Today. Moreover, I'm willing to bet dollars to doughnuts that Seattle has one of the lowest USA Today subscription rates in the county. Just a guess...
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11-30-2005 07:07 PM ET (US)
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As one raised in said city, and living just a few miles south now, I might suggest that the number of days of annual rain might have even moe to do with the high literacy rate.
I always find it easier to read than walk or hike when it's raining outside.
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11-30-2005 10:31 PM ET (US)
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That is an intriguing observation. I suspect that climate and landscape have much more to do with culture than is generally conceded!
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12-19-2005 10:42 AM ET (US)
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BA: Not what a sheep says, despite undergraduate claims to the contrary...This article should go over well at our house, which is hostilely occupied by fifty graduating students' papers. You should HEAR how bad they are. I can't get through five minutes of goofing off without Lady Ninja dragging me back to the office to hear how bad the writing is. She's killing me. She's killing my love of words with the semi-literate essays of fourth-year undergrads. Home
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01-10-2006 10:13 AM ET (US)
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And in related doom and gloom newsThe reading crisis is whack, yo. Home
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01-24-2006 09:45 AM ET (US)
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Oi! Wots all vis wif ve 'oity-toity reeeeding, ven? 12 million British workers can barely read. Hey, what's the population of Alberta, again? Home
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And, in Canada, the results of the 2003 International Adult Literacy and Skills Survey are out: and "nationally, 48 percent of the adult population – 12 million Canadians aged 16 and over– perform below Level 3 on the prose and document literacy scales... "Level 3 proficiency is considered to be the “desired level” of competence for coping with the increasing skill demands of the emerging knowledge and information economy." (Those at Level 1 "have difficulty reading and have few basic skills or strategies for decoding and working with text. Generally, they are aware that they have a literacy problem." Those at Level 2 "are people with limited skills who read but do not read well. Canadians at this level can deal only with material that is simple and clearly laid out. People at this level often do not recognize their limitations." So half the population can only deal with simple material, if that...and "overall, there has been little change in literacy performance between 1994 and 2003." for more info, see http://www.nald.ca/fulltext/booc/05.htm
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01-24-2006 11:35 AM ET (US)
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Canada has nothing to worry about with the highflying poet-spook Wendy Morton and her random acts of self-promotion on the case.
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