The girl locked out of the school house or attacked because she had the audacity to want to learn to read or write, she's counting on you.
And more than that, I wanted to talk, or read, or write to someone who understood what I was going through.
The result, notes Mr Hyman ruefully, is that children are starting to learn (or, more accurately, to attend lessons in) Spanish, when they cannot even read or write English.
He also joked about members of the Southeastern Conference not knowing how to read or write.
There is no expectation that kids will learn to read or write before this.
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His wife, Millie Chu-Baird, is Chinese-American but can't read or write Mandarin, having grown up in Columbus, Ind.
But when I met him, I realized he doesn't really care what people read or write about him.
Unable to read or write, they are stunted from reaching their full potential.
All of this fuels adult illiteracy - there are 775 million women and men today who cannot read or write.
UNESCO: Published in South China Morning Post on 17 October 2012.
Provisional data from the Indian government's 2011 census states that about 25% of the country's population cannot read or write.
There are still an estimated 759 million adults who have never learned to read or write, and two-thirds of them are women.
Too many students don't speak English, can't read or write at grade level, and yet, it's the overcrowding that has complicated matters.
Seventy-one percent of teens believe their parents read or write down directions while driving, while 55 percent of parents say they actually do.
The written word, however, only emerged about 5, 000 years ago, and until World War II over half the world's population couldn't read or write.
There is also a learning crisis: Worldwide, 250 million children of primary school age cannot read or write, whether they are in school or not.
But that still left some 900m illiterates, more than half of them in India, only about half of whose billion people can read or write.
There are today 250 million children of primary school age who cannot read or write, and some 71 million teenagers who are out of secondary school.
UNESCO: Published in South China Morning Post on 17 October 2012.
Many of California's Latino students, who make up by far the biggest share of children in bilingual classes, leave school unable to read or write English.
There is also a learning crisis: around the world, 250 million children of primary school age cannot read or write, whether they are in school or not.
And he would actually take me and my brother, and he would educate us in his own primitive way, because he didn't know how to read or write music.
This is a simple story of the members of a peasant family in Sicily, who cannot communicate with their emigrant son, because they are unable to read or write.
There is also a learning crisis: around the world, at least 250 million children of primary school age cannot read or write, whether they are in school or not.
Though Hendrix couldn't read or write music, his incredible ability to manipulate the guitar with controlled feedback, distortion, pedal effects and other techniques opened the door to a wide range of possibilities.
However awkward it may have been for the man whose neighbor was running for office, this system made vote counting transparent and did not require voters to read or write.
Because so many of their pigskin peers do indeed lower that character bar and look the other way if a kid prefers to run, catch and throw rather than read or write.
His victory was challenged after newspapers reported that he could not read or write - but after he passed a basic literacy test, a judge in Sao Paulo ruled that he could take up his seat.
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There are today 250 million children of primary school age who cannot read or write, and some 71 million teenagers who are out of secondary school. 200 million young people in developing countries have not completed primary school.
Noel "Razor" Smith, who was in prison for 33 years and is now a writer, said putting TVs into prisoners' cells actually helped reduce violence in prisons, because it gave inmates who could not read or write a way to occupy their time.
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