Ajmer district had an average literacy rate of 70. 46 percent, male literacy being 83. 93 % and female literacy 56. 42 %.

Ernakulam District is the first district in the whole country to have 100 percent literacy by 1990.

Pothanicad, first panchayath in India that achieved 100 % literacy according to state literacy programme is in this district.

Ninety-eight percent of Tunceli's population has at least a primary school education, leading to one of the highest rates of literacy for a district within Turkey.

The literacy level of Chamarajanagara district is 51 %.

The district has a literacy rate of 72. 96 % and is on the rise.

Total literacy rate of the district is 80. 67 % ( male 87. 06 % and female 73. 10 %).

According to the Tanzania Poverty and Human Development Report 2005, the Moshi urban district had the highest literacy rate for persons over 15 years of age when compared to any of the 128 other districts in Tanzania.

The overall literacy rate in the Haripur district is 53. 7 %, substantially higher than the provincial literacy rate in Hazara ( 35. 2 %) as a whole.

Literacy Rate: Namli Maira village has one of the highest literacy rates for the district.

It has Gender Ratio of 947 female per 1000 men and literacy rate for the district is 67. 31 %.

The district has a literacy of 76. 90 %, higher than the state average.

Average literacy rate of Nawada district is 61. 63 percent.

The language teachers were applied for, and received a literacy grant from the district focusing on proficiency grading and literature analysis.

* The literacy rate amongst townspeople ( 68. 57 %) is significantly higher than that of the entire district.

Increase in total literacy percentage has been by 18. 22 because of the intensive literacy campaign in the district. Rajasthan is home to many tribes who have very interesting history of origin, customs and social practices.

The average literacy rate of the district is 25. 8 %, with 30. 9 % of males and 48. 35 % of females considered literate.

Chandpur district has an average literacy rate of 50. 29 %, which is slightly lower than the average Bangladeshi literacy rate of 55. 9 %.

On the other hand, one might posit a poem which is composed by a literate scribe, who acquired literacy by way of learning Latin ( and absorbing Latinate culture and ways of thinking ), probably a monk and therefore profoundly Christian in outlook.

Writing was introduced during the French occupation and literacy is limited, especially in rural areas.

She is currently an assistant professor in literacy education at Georgia State University.

This education includes but is not limited to sports, adult literacy and lifestyle education.

Citing a high correlation between rising literacy rates and gains in IQ, David Marks has argued that the Flynn effect is caused by changes in literacy rates.

Here, " qu " is pronounced " co ." The 83 pieces of graffiti found at CIL IV, 4706-85 are evidence of the ability to read and write at levels of society where literacy might not be expected.

There is a high level of computer literacy, especially among the youth.

The basic form of library instruction is sometimes known as information literacy.

However, adult literacy is very high-82 % and children under weight aged under 5 is only 20 %.

In a technological society, the concept of literacy is expanding to include the media and electronic text, in addition to alphabetic and number systems.

Key to all literacy is reading development, a progression of skills that begins with the ability to understand spoken words and decode written words, and culminates in the deep understanding of text.

The view that public education contributes to rising literacy levels is shared by the majority of historians.

Even, the cost of paper and books is a barrier to universal literacy in some less-industrialized nations.

Africa is the continent with the lowest literacy rate in the world.

The literacy rate of Algeria is around 70 %: education is compulsory and free in Algeria up to age of 17.

There are any number of approaches to teaching literacy ; each is shaped by its informing assumptions about what literacy is and how it is best learned by students.

The cost of illiteracy as well as the huge cost of formal literacy instruction is one of the major financial burdens on societies.

From another perspective, the historian Harvey Graff has argued that the introduction of mass schooling was in part an effort to control the type of literacy that the working class had access to.

There is now extensive evidence that working memory is linked to key learning outcomes in literacy and numeracy.

She took an interest in adult and childhood literacy issues after her son Neil was diagnosed with dyslexia and began working with several different literacy organizations.

In the 1960s, there was a paradigm shift in the field of media literacy to emphasize working within popular culture rather than trying to convince people that popular culture was primarily destructive.

Similarly, scholars differ greatly on the social condition and literacy of the poets themselves ; were they cultured clerics or illiterate jongleurs working within an oral tradition?

The Literacy Corps was also established, which allowed young men to fulfill their compulsory military service by working as village literacy teachers.

" In 1935, while working at a remote location in the Philippines, he developed the " Each One Teach One " literacy program.

The Reserve System Education Network is working to advance estuary, climate & ocean literacy.

* Scholarships and student loans were broadened under existing laws by Kennedy, and new means of specialised aid to education were invented or expanded by the president, including an increase in funds for libraries and school lunches, the provision of funds to teach the deaf, the handicapped, the retarded, and the exceptional child, the authorisation of literacy training under Manpower Development, the allocation of President funds to stop dropouts, a quadrupling of vocational education, and working together with schools on delinquency.

Researchers are working to show how description, through its use of varied word choice, synonyms, metaphor and simile, not only benefits children who are blind and others who have learning disabilities but can also boost literacy for all children.

From an after school learning center for children to adult literacy classes, American Sunrise creates communities where working families find can find economic, educational and housing opportunities to improve the standard of living in the neighborhood.

After working with poor communities in the rural Brazilian state of Pernambuco, Freire observed that aspects of traditional classroom structures, such as teachers being more powerful than the students, were hindering the potential for success in adults participating in adult literacy programs.

He also taught in adult literacy classes at Frontier College, working through the day on construction projects and teaching at night.

While working at the U. S. Office of Education he discovered that many deaf adults fail to achieve literacy at a native-level.

Most of the employees are illiterate or barely literate, except officers working in singareni who were higly educated, but rigorous efforts are being taken to improve the literacy rate.

Traditional voter suppression tactics included the institution of poll taxes and literacy tests, aimed at suppressing the votes of African Americans and working class white voters.

The publisher of the winning Canada Reads title donates a portion of sales proceeds from the winning book to a charitable organization working in the field of literacy.

Many blind merchants will be working collaboratively on the effort to increase braille literacy.

Akbar ’ s passion was speaking about financial literacy, and he spent hours working with youth in San Diego about the

The SAGE Youth Program gives students an opportunity to develop and improve their basic literacy skills by working one-on-one with trained and devoted volunteers once a week.

The summit did, however, promise to implement 50 of the Commission's 90 recommendations including: $ 36bn of debt relief in 100 % debt cancellation delivered for 19 countries ; the launch of the UN Central Emergency Response Fund ( CERF ); doubling previous levels of aid for basic education, to remove school fees, and to scale up efforts to boost girls ’ participation and female literacy ; two million additional Africans given antiretroviral treatment for HIV / AIDS ; immunisation programmes which have stopped the transmission of polio everywhere except Nigeria ; training 20, 000 more African peacekeepers ; tightening controls on the trade in small arms ; working more closely with the African Union and its New Partnership for Africa ( Nepad ) programme to make African governments more accountable to their people ; pressing rich nations to ratify the UN Convention on Corruption ; putting in place measures to return cash looted by dictators from Western banks to the legitimate owners ; and using export credits to clamp down on Western companies who pay bribes.

However, it appears that literacy was much higher than school enrollment would indicate and that literacy passed into the working classes, as well as the middle and upper classes ( Thompson ).