Hurricane recovery confronts low literacy rate

Marsha Williams had always hesitated when mail arrived from the government. After Hurricane Katrina, she began to fear the letters.

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What You Don't Understand Could Kill You

Plenty of evidence suggests that having trouble understanding medical information is bad for your health. Now new research says it could even be deadly. A study of patients 65 and older found that those who couldn't understand basic written medical instructions were much more likely to die within six years than those who had no problems grasping the information.

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Microsoft Seeking Ways to Help Illiterate

Can someone who doesn't even know how to read or write use a computer? Microsoft Corp. is probing that question at a research lab in India.

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30 years ago, President Jimmy Carter signed an international treaty addressing a serious global problem: discrimination against women. The U.S. Senate still has not ratified that treaty.

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First, it would be ironic if this gets done in a timely manner after the way he handled the WTC site, New Orleans, Iraq and Afghanistan for starters.

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In an alleged democracy, the image of the public sphere with its appeal to dialogue and shared responsibility has given way to the spectacle of unbridled intolerance, ignorance, seething private fears, unchecked anger, along with the decoupling of reason from freedom.

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After an intense two-year literacy campaign, Nicaragua has managed to reduce the number of people who cannot read and write to below four percent of the adult population, from nearly 21 percent.

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When colleges have open admission they may see many students lacking basic literacy.

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Illiterate foreigners are not eligible for German citizenship, according to a German court ruling disclosed Thursday.

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Not Illusive: US Educators On Illiteracy

Let me start with the subject closely related to illiteracy. It is ( bias opinion Statistics. The averaging of How many entries ( or takers of a class ending up as Graduates.

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WIKIPEDIA and other online research sources were yesterday blamed for Scotland's falling exam pass rates.

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Teachers the world over will enjoy this story about a St. Joseph, MO man who worked hard all his life digging ditches, etc. and never had time to learn to read.

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From LL Cool J to New England Patriots player Asante Samuel, celebrity entertainment manager and sports agent Glenn Toby's success resonates with everyone he's worked with.

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America's Literary Apathy

There's a disturbing trend afoot.

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Libraries in southeastern Michigan are turning the page on peace and quiet. Video game events at public libraries are drawing crowds of teens, including about 100 competing monthly at "Guitar Hero" at the Rochester Hills Public Library.

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No matter what field you work in, being computer savvy will increase your marketability. Do not let computer illiteracy hold you back. Get that much needed computer training without spending years in school.

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The shaping of Arab minds (with 60 per cent of of the region's population being under 30 years of age) should be much on Arabs' minds - or on the minds of those whose job it is to see to it that no child, as it were, is left behind, no student who evinces talent and potential is  …

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According to UNESCO there are an estimated 781 million illiterate adults in the world, about 64 per cent of which are women.

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Lindsay Lohan is the talk of Hollywood for all the wrong reasons again after a letter of condolence to film director Robert Altman's family showed up her shocking grasp of the English language.

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I love it when big companies a lot of good. This is a great example of thinking globally.

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Here's something you might not know if you haven't had a five-minute conversation with an 18-year-old in the past 12 months: America's young know almost nothing about what happened before they were born, or even before last year.

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Why we can't read.

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I have a total failure of the imagination when it comes to thinking about how someone can live in our current US society without being able to read. Here's an example of some of illiteracy's dangers.Five months later, he appeared at the community clinic.

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With lustrous hair to her waist, immaculate make-up and perfect poise, Miss England 2005 has all the credentials of a beauty queen.

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In 1999, after rebel forces ransacked the town at the height of the 10-year civil war, Esano started working the streets and clubs to meet "rich men" - the estimated 200,000 miners, whose unceasing digging and panning has turned the impoverished Kono district into a lunar landsca …

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This is disgusting beyond words. Stamping out illiteracy by making it the norm.

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At tables in the middle of the prison library, men sit reading newspapers. But look closely: some of them aren't actually reading. They're thumbing the pages, trying to look absorbed, glancing around the room every few minutes to see if anyone is watching.

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In deeply conservative Muslim Afghanistan, women's rights remain in their infancy even after the Taliban were overthrown by U.S.-led forces in 2001. Education experts estimate the female illiteracy rate at 80 percent or higher.

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