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。

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It took a number of years before Congress was able to pass a law demanding a literacy test for immigrants.

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Literacy is sort of skill of, it's, a pool of technology skill.

文化素养是一种技能，是一项科技技能。

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They were very suspicious of the democratic tendencies, or so it seemed, the democratic tendencies of that northern society which was spreading literacy more widely, and eventually the right to vote more widely, at least among white people.

他们也对民主倾向表示怀疑,事实就是如此,有着民主倾向的北方社会,文化教育的开展更为广泛,因而更广大人民有着投票权,至少大部分白人有投票权

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"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.

BBC: Welsh government pledges ?39m for schools broadband

The director of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) in Wales, Philip Dixon, believes Wales could learn from other nations when it comes to literacy.

BBC: The literacy challenge facing Wales

It was also literacy and numeracy programmes, building on best existing teaching practice, to raise basic standards systematically nationwide - 84, 000 more 11 year-olds a year now up to standard in maths and 60, 000 in English.

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