He was the governor of Mexico State, a populous but small horseshoe around Mexico City, and his time as a national politician has been short and heavily stage-managed, with limited press access (and no more literacy tests).
The tool helps teach nonliterate children and adults how to read by creating an individual reading tutor for every child, coupled with an accountability system to measure learning, and assistance for teachers to incorporate more effective literacy into the classroom.
For the rest of us, it may be more basic financial literacy and money management skills.
The report said that five million adults lacked functional literacy and more than 17 million had difficulties with numbers.
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Ultimately, the challenge of financial literacy is more about initiative than information.
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But Ebay kept going up, raising more possibilities: Fund literacy?
Like Golub, I wish economic literacy were more widespread.
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How is it that colonists in the 1770s, many of whom had little formal schooling, had higher levels of literacy, more expansive vocabularies and a better command and mastery of a wide variety of subjects, than the average student today?
There would also be "much more of a focus on literacy" in a new English language qualification, he said.
Just as the bilingual school-teaching which California did away with in 1997 obscured more fundamental problems over achieving literacy in any language, affirmative action channelled good motives down a false path.
Speech recognition could be the next killer app, with huge potential in markets such as China and Japan where the QWERTY keyboard is more a hindrance to computer literacy than a help.
"In our more deprived communities pupils are less likely to have computers at home, so access to computers with fast broadband at school is even more important in improving IT literacy, " she said.
In such neighborhoods, Brazilians should find apprenticeships, vocational training, and more public libraries that promote literacy, social inclusion, and citizenship, all topics debated by world-famous architects and experts and locals together in a new series called Arq.
More concerning, improvement of literacy rates in Cambodia appears to be slowing, compounded by the fact that a majority of illiterate individuals are members of hard to reach groups such as ethnic minorities, migrants, or people with disabilities.
The programme is selected for its focus on women and out-of-school youth, reaching over 100, 000 people in more than 3, 500 literacy centres, and for its aim of ensuring the right of every individual to literacy and basic education, including the acquisition of knowledge about human rights, reconciliation and peace-building.
The UK educator has signaled loud and clear that its attention is more geared towards birthing intelligence and literacy.
On a global basis, there's no more significant or important issue than literacy.
Mr Thomas called for improving pupils' literacy to be made more central, adding that the foundation phase was starting to work, improving children and young people's expectations.
While literacy and numeracy skills are not required for CHW recruitment, experience has shown that CHWs are more effective in their work when they have at least basic literacy and numeracy skills.
But the significance of code literacy in contemporary culture is about more than personal lifestyle choices.
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Learners in advanced literacy circles can write and calculate more complex mathematics problems.
The children who went through the program had higher grades and better literacy in high school and were more likely to graduate.
Increased environmental literacy, she says, means more hope for meaningful change.
This comment is proved by the number of women who attend literacy circles: women learners show more self- confidence while practising uses of PRA tools and participating in group discussions.
Though Iran has more than 70m people and high rates of literacy, Mohammed Atrianfar, a senior member of the group that publishes both Shargh and Ham Mihan, puts total newspaper readership at less than 2m, about half of whom live in Tehran.
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"We need more catch-up and stretch - particularly in literacy and numeracy, " says the education secretary.
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Literacy, it was stated, is more than simply reading, writing and computation.
The fourth superpower is digital-media literacy skills that help citizen witnesses use media more safely and effectively.
The use of familiar, real-life materials helps students to feel more comfortable in class, and the structured teaching of literacy skills gradually improves their reading and writing skills.
Also, foreign languages have now been compulsory in the secondary school curriculum since 1992 and the literacy strategy means primary school children are now more familiar with the rules of grammar.
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