Literacy increased, and a standard literary language was introduced.

Later in her tenure, she was honored by the United Nations, as the body named her honorary ambassador for the United Nations ' Decade of Literacy.

Literacy was not widespread, but among the senior clergy, and in monasteries, it would have been common enough.

Cuba was instrumental in the Nicaraguan Literacy Campaign.

The Literacy Campaign was one of the success stories of the Sandinistas ' reign and Cuba played an important part in this, providing teachers on a yearly basis after the revolution.

1980 was declared the " Year of Literacy " and the major goals of the campaign that started only 8 months after the FSLN took over.

Political awareness and the strengthening of political and economic participation of the Nicaraguan people was also a central goal of the Literacy Campaign.

Literacy was one thing that all warrant officers had in common, and this distinguished them from the common seamen.

Literacy in art became widespread, as did the practice of art making, and there was a blurring of the division between high and low culture.

In 2009, a scholarly journal was launched, the Journal of Media Literacy Education, to support the work of scholars and practitioners in the field.

* 2002-The Peter Gzowski Foundation for Literacy was funded by the federal government and named in honour of Gzowski's work in promoting literacy in Canada

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

Literacy in Irish was restricted to a very few.

Colson was also a proponent of the Bible Literacy Project's curriculum The Bible and Its Influence for public high school literature courses.

Literacy was taught from the Bible.

The Presidential Committee on Information Literacy was formed in 1987 by the American Library Association's president at the time Margaret Chisholm.

A seminal event in the development of the concept of information literacy was the establishment of the American Library Association's Presidential Committee on Information Literacy, whose 1989 final report outlined the importance of the concept.

One of the most important things to come out of the Presidential Committee on Information Literacy was the creation of the National Forum on Information Literacy.

The ALA Presidential Committee on Information Literacy was charged with the following tasks:

Although the initial intent of the Forum was to raise public awareness and support on a national level, over the last several years, the National Forum on Information Literacy has made significant strides internationally in promoting the importance of integrating information literacy concepts and skills throughout all educational, governmental, and workforce development programs.

This successful collaboration was sponsored by the National Forum on Information Literacy, Committee for Economic Development, Educational Testing Service, the Institute for a Competitive Workforce, and National Education Association ( NEA ).

This alliance was created from the recommendation of the Prague Conference of Information Literacy Experts in 2003.

Literacy and schooling is high, and it appears that nearly 100 percent of the population is educated.

Literacy rate of this village is nearly 74 percent.

Literacy currently stands at nearly 80 %.

Literacy went from the prized possession of the select few to a much broader section of the population ( though by no means universal ).

She implemented four major initiatives: Take Time For Kids, an awareness campaign to educate parents and caregivers on parenting ; family literacy, through cooperation with the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy, she urged Texas communities to establish family literacy programs ; Reach Out and Read, a pediatric reading program ; and Ready to Read, an early childhood educational program.

During the 1990s, the Discovery Channel supported the implementation of Assignment: Media Literacy, a statewide educational initiative for K-12 students developed in collaboration with the Maryland State Board of Education.

ALSSE offers a variety of educational services and courses within Peterlee and East Durham for people who want to learn new skills such as ICT, Digital Photography or build up their Literacy and Numeracy Skills ; Family Learning is also done through this organisation.

In the final analysis, the National Forum on Information Literacy will continue to work closely with educational, business, and non-profit organizations in the U. S. to promote information literacy skill development at every opportunity, particularly in light of the ever growing social, economic, and political urgency of globalization, prompting us to re-energize our promotional and collaborative efforts here at home.

In " Information Literacy as a Liberal Art ", Jeremy J. Shapiro and Shelley K. Hughes advocated a more holistic approach to information literacy education, one that encouraged not merely the addition of information technology courses as an adjunct to existing curricula, but rather a radically new conceptualization of " our entire educational curriculum in terms of information ".

He has also authored highly cited research papers on the epistemology of physics, educational experimentation, and constructivist analysis of knowledge, and the book Changing Minds: Computers, Learning, and Literacy ( MIT Press, 2000 ).

Literacy and educational institutions Average literacy 34. 1 %; male 44. 8 % and female 25. 1 %.

Literacy and educational institutions Average literacy is 26. 9 % ( male 33. 7 % and female 20. 1 %).

Literacy & educational institutions Average literacy 28. 5 %; male 35. 2 % and female 20. 9 %.

As Treasurer, Markell led the development of several educational efforts in personal financial management, known collectively as " the Financial Literacy initiatives ".

In the United States, the release of the National Assessment of Adult Literacy ( NAAL ) report in 2005 revealed that approximately 14 % of adults function at the lowest level of literacy ; 29 % of adults function at the basic functional literacy level and cannot help their children with homework beyond the first few grades.

Literacy levels were among the highest in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and numerous national associations were present at grassroots level.

Entry to the Mathematics & Literacy focus High Performance Learning ( HPL ) program is managed at the school level.

* Literacy rate, the proportion of the population over age fifteen that can read and write

Literacy among males is 81 %, and among the female population it is 74 %.

In Ong's most widely known work, Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word ( 1982 ), he attempts to identify the distinguishing characteristics of orality: thought and its verbal expression in societies where the technologies of literacy ( especially writing and print ) are unfamiliar to most of the population.

Literacy rates are estimated at some 50 % of the population.

* Literacy: ( definition: age 15 and over can read and write ) total population: 52. 3 % ( male: 64. 7 % / female: 40. 6 %) ( 2004 census )