In theory, the literate-thinking methodology isn't all that different from an SAT prep course, which also teaches kids how to fathom the basic principles underlying all sorts of word problems.
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The last literate person in the Western World has finally read The Da Vinci Code.
Afghanistan remains one of the least literate countries in the world, where one in two men and four out of every five women cannot read and write.
Though Tunisia still lacks political freedoms, Tunisian women are now by far the most literate, and the country the most progressive on most issues, among the 22 nations of the Arab League.
An UNESCO report in 2011 indicated that the more literate women are, the higher the chances that their children would have a proper education.
It's convenient like the first and literate like the second.
It is the sixth most literate nation among the top 24 emerging markets in the world today.
His replacement as chief economics minister is one of the most financially literate members of the previous government, Mikhail Zadornov.
But the ease of finding the itch you want to scratch makes it borderline addictive for the visually literate.
Over half of the rural population is literate and the urban literacy ratio stood at almost three-fourth in the province.
Only 4.7% of the total literate population has cleared intermediate but not bachelor's and just 4.3% have a bachelor's or above.
When Britain, the colonial power, left Nigeria, it handed authority not to traditional rulers, who were viewed as having some legitimacy, but to doctors, lawyers and the horde of literate hustlers who did well in the British bureaucracy and the British army and now make up Nigeria's ruling class.
In short, the greater the number of financially literate and empowered people, the more PwC is able to succeed.
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First, the premium for skilled workers has been falling: a surge in secondary education has increased the supply of literate, reasonably well-schooled workers, and years of steady growth have raised relative demand for the less skilled in the formal workforce, whether as construction workers or cleaners.
The programme is also building a literate environment for the national languages.
There is unanimity, a thread of great hope and acceptance of the importance and contribution of a literate mother to the well-being and benefit accruing to her family, especially the deep interest and desire to have all their children educated.
Lasting peace depends on the development of literate citizenship and access to education for all.
Whether he was truly able to make prophecies remains open to doubt, but no reader can come away from Mr Radzinsky's biography without a powerful impression of the charm and charisma of the semi-literate bearded peasant from Siberia.
The benefits of a fully literate society are obvious, but the challenges still remain.
Without the skills to participate in a literate, technological world and the knowledge to transform their environment, people will remain on the margins of society, and society itself will lose their potential contributions.
Yao Ydo, chief and literacy expert at UNESCO's Regional Office in Dakar, noted during the workshop that creating a literate environment (including digital literacy) is the key prerequisite for successful literacy programmes.
The Department started its operations with a vision to have 100% literate Punjab by the end of 2020.
One problem, though, is that the Afghan army cannot grow any faster because of a shortage of literate recruits for the officer corps.
This is essential because it assists the learners, most of whom are barely literate, to better understand the issues being discussed.
Most literate: The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton: discussed here.
The Literacy Initiative for Empowerment (LIFE) and the United Nations Literacy Decade (UNLD) also pay due attention to the promotion of multilingual literate environments.
From fishermen to homemakers, from pre-schoolers to dropouts, from teachers to municipal workers - not forgetting the very young, the very old and the marginalized - the entire local population in the Municipality of Agoo in La Union, the Philippines, has the chance to become literate or upgrade their skills thanks to its municipal authority.
Again, I agree with Butterworth that in an ideal world, journalists, politicians, and the public would all be more technically literate and, therefore, more able to assess the technical claims being made in public policy debates related to technology, science, and medicine.
Another aspect of training is not just knowing how to use the technology, but to master the technology and find the hidden gems and higher level productivity tools to move from "functionally literate", to knowing the technology so well it's a natural extension of your day-to-day productivity.
Although there are many egg-warnings on the World Wide Web for computer-literate cooks, there are none on commercial egg cartons: precisely the place where they might do some good.
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