Widely varying levels of information and IT literacy.
资讯和技术素养的水平有著巨大差异性。
It is hardly necessary for me to cite all the evidence of the depressing state of literacy.
对我来说，几乎没有必要列举所有关于人们读写能力的证据，这些证据令人沮丧。
Standards in Finland have vastly improved in reading, math and science literacy over the past decade, in large part because its teachers are trusted to do whatever it takes to turn young lives around.
在过去的十年里，芬兰的阅读、数学和科学素养标准都有了很大提高，很大程度上因为人们信任芬兰的老师们会尽其所能来改变年轻人的生活。
It is notoriously difficult to teach adults skills that do not have an immediate impact on their everyday lives, and many literacy campaigns in other countries have been much less successful.
众所周知，教成年人一些对他们日常生活没有直接影响的技能是非常困难的，而其他国家的许多扫盲运动都远远没有我们这么成功。
It is also time to install a vigorous programme of scientific literacy in schools, a programme additional to normal science subjects.
现在也是在学校设置一个有力的科学素养项目的时候了，这个项目是正常的科学课程的补充。
"The Bank and the projects it supports are enablers of the basic regulatory environment and business climate and technological literacy," Burns says.
伯恩斯说：“世行及其所支持的项目帮助建立基本监管环境以及营商环境和技术素养。”
It will focus on improving financial literacy for all Americans.
它将专注于改善全体美国人的金融知识能力。
Britain is sliding down the world’s literacy league tables (it does better at maths, which thankfully remains ringfenced).
英国在世界识字率水平表的位置一降再降。
“Some of it is the informal reading they get in e-mails or on Web sites, ” said Gay Ivey, a professor at James Madison University who focuses on adolescent literacy. “I think they need it all.”
“浏览电子邮件和网站进行的只是非正式阅读，”研究青少年读写能力的詹姆斯麦迪逊大学教授GayIvey说，“我想他们还是需要正式阅读培训的。”
The drawback of the internet is that you have to be literate to use it. That is a huge problem in India, where the literacy rate is only 60% (in China and Russia, it is over 90%).
互联网的缺点是你必须能够熟练地运用，这在印度是个大问题，因为印度的识字人口比率只有60%，这在中国和俄罗斯都超过了90%。
Then he asked if I could get him into a literacy program without his employer knowing about it.
随后他问我能否安排他参加读写教育计划，但不能告诉他的老板。
It is becoming a new literacy of sorts.
它正变成多种能力中的一种。
Learning to read is so entwined in the normal course of child development that it is easy to assume that our brains are naturally wired for print literacy.
学习如何阅读与儿童发育的正常过程密切相关，因此我们轻易地假设我们的大脑天生就对印刷文字有反应。
India's literacy rate is rising, thanks in part to a surge in cheap private schools for the poor, but it is still far behind China's.
印度的受教育比例在提高，部分原因是因为服务穷人的廉价私立学校的兴起，但依旧远落后于中国。
Other researchers have pointed out that to improve health literacy, we'll need to better understand how it is people most often get mixed up.
另外有一些研究人员指出，要想提高健康知识水平，就要先了解为什么人们容易混淆和不理解。
"Recent increases in literacy and Indian per-person income might have thus contributed to increased selective abortion of girls," it said.
“最近印度人文化程度的提高和收入的增加也许在助长性别选择性堕胎的增加，”报告说。
JAMES SUROWIECKI: I think people don't understand compound interest because typically no one ever explains it to them and the level of financial literacy in the US is very low.
答：我认为人们不知道复利的价值是因为一般没人会解释给他们听，并且美国人的金融知识很匮乏。
Globish comprises about 1,500 words, and people with little literacy in English can use it to communicate without difficulty.
全球语"常用词汇仅约有1,500个，不太精通英语的人们也可毫无障碍地交流。
English is permanent because it came to reign amidst print, widespread literacy, and eventually an omnipresent media.
英语会永久为世界语言，因为其在印刷业、广泛的文学作品以及无所不在的媒体中占据着支配地位。
It is the new theme of national literacy information.
信息技术是国民信息素质的新主题。
Literacy may not be an inalienable human right, but it is one that the highly literate Founding Fathers might not have found unreasonable or even unattainable.
能读写可能算不上是一项不可剥夺的人权，但是我们学识渊博的开国元勋们并不感到它是不合理的或者甚至是达不到的。
It classroom assessment is based on the constructivism theory, the multiple intelligence theory and the information literacy theory.
信息技术课堂评价以建构主义、多元智能理论和信息素养论为理论基础。
What is different now, some literacy experts say, is that spending time on the Web, whether it is looking up something on Google or even britneyspears.org, entails some engagement with text.
一些读写专家们说道，现在的不同在于：在网络上消费时间的时候，不管你是在Google上搜索也好，还是在britneyspears.org翻阅也罢，都不能避免与文字打交道。
Since going public, it has offered financial literacy courses-some 60,000 of its clients went on one last year.
上市以来，该行举办了数期金融知识扫盲班，仅去年一年，就有6万多位顾客前去听课。
Build pilot it centres that provide computer literacy and skills training for youth, orphans and disabled individuals.
建立信息技术实验中心，为青年、孤儿及残疾人提供计算机知识和技能培训。
In the 2006 Progress in International Reading and Literacy Study it also came bottom (out of 40 countries), as it did in the 2003 Trends in International Maths and Science Study (out of 48 countries).
2006年的国际阅读素养进展研究中南非(在40个国家中)也名列倒数，这和南非2003年在国际数学和科学趋势研究(TIMSS)中(48个国家中)排名情况相同。
It shows a lack of cultural literacy, Lindgren said, that they have to compensate for during class.
这个现象表明了一种熟悉文化的缺失，lindgren说，而他们需要对其在课堂中进行弥补。
may spell the end of literacy as we know it, but a growing body of research indicates that text messages can actually help students' ability to spell.
对于许多老师和父母来说，短信缩写也许仅仅拼出了我们都知道的文字头尾，但一个日益成熟的研究表明，发短确实有助于学生们锻炼拼写能力。
may spell the end of literacy as we know it, but a growing body of research indicates that text messages can actually help students' ability to spell.
对于许多老师和父母来说，短信缩写也许仅仅拼出了我们都知道的文字头尾，但一个日益成熟的研究表明，发短确实有助于学生们锻炼拼写能力。
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