Tag: literacy
Local SF Shelter Resident Puts New Books In Shelt...
Friday, April 4, 2008Shelter Resident Creates Libraries Inside San Francisco Shelters Without Funding !San Francisco has an abundance of talent, ideas, creativity and 'outof the box' thinking -- right inside of our own tax funded HomelessShelters. We have some great shelter...
The Young Hardworking Poor of Rural Bangladesh
In rural Bangladesh, eight years old is old enough to start putting food on the table. That was the first, but not last, surprise in my recent trip to a rural village in Bangladesh called Madhupur. Madhupur is a...
Teaching Revolution Promises Solution to Dyslexia
Good news for children who have difficulty reading and writing, help is on its way.Updated December 5, 2007: Dyslexic children Project wins £3m funding!" A £3m programme to help dyslexic children who are struggling...
BigT’s Roundup - Illiterate Kids, Chavez, Stock...
Fine, America’s fourth graders aren’t actually “illiterate” but we are falling behind other countries according to a story from AP.
The last time this test was given was in 2001 and since then our scores
have stayed flat while others have increased. Now we’re...
Australian Scientology Volunteer Ministers Join G...
A study published in a recent edition of the Medical Journal of Australia reporting that some 60 percent of Aborigines are chronic marijuana users brings home the urgency of this week's launch of Communities Helping...
Children who can’t write their own name
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Forty per cent of children struggle to write their own name or to sound out letters to form simple words such as “dog” or “red” by the age of 5, government figures show.
The annual assessments of children’s progress during their first year in school also show...
Txts Hrtng Ltrcy: WTF?
The analysts involved in this study go on to assign a singularverb to a plural noun, but we'll let that one slide; evidently the ubiquity of SMS as a means of communication is reducing Irish schoolkids to monosyllabism. "The fatal attraction between Irish young 'uns and...
Crunching the Numbers on Literacy – Scientology...
"According to UNESCO, there are 771 million illiterate adults in the world today, about two-thirds of whom are women. Nearly two-thirds of the world's illiterate adults are found in only 9 countries, and 45% of the world's 771 million illiterate adults live in India and China...
"Race" to save Basque language
The race, or korrika, is a two-week long affair that endeavors to cover as much of Spain's Basque territory as possible. Racers stop only briefly along their course, and race even through the night. Money is raised...
"Thinking for yourself" better educational strate...
"Give college students less instruction and more freedom to think for themselves in laboratory classes, and the result may be a four-fold increase in their test scores."I won't be totally scientific in suggesting that letting students learn from doing in all kinds of courses...
Despite Lessons on King, Some Unaware of His Dream
"In a recent survey of college students on U.S. civic literacy, more than 81 percent knew that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was expressing hope for "racial justice and brotherhood" in his historic "I Have a Dream" speech.
That's the good news.
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50 Dumbest Things Bush Ever Said
50. "I promise you I will listen to what has been said here, even though I wasn't here." —at the President's Economic Forum in Waco, Texas, Aug. 13, 2002
49. "We spent a lot of time talking about Africa, as we should. Africa is a nation that suffers from incredible...
How much should one give to charity?
I noticed something interesting while interviewing people for an earlier column, "Huge debts, paid off fast." Several people who had retired big debts did so while also giving -- big time -- to charity.For
example, Joy Thompson of Pullman, Wash., paid off $8,000 in debt...
Christmas appeal provides 67000 books
"The generosity of Observer readers a year ago has put 67,000 books into the hands of people in the developing world. That is the result of last year's Christmas appeal, which raised more than £100,000 for Book Aid International."Book Aid International has a simple, but...
OMG! Pidgins are the Urban Birds of New Zealand
So when is text messaging format not acceptable? Clarie Trevett of the New Zealand Herald, writes that students have received fair warining not to use cellphone texting shorthand the NCEA upcoming exams. Apparently, a rumor circulated recently to the effect that the New...
