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Improving the appalling state of US education for starters.
America ranks behind 16 third world countries in literacy standards and for a developed nation a staggeringly low level of tertiary education.

The outlay for what can only be described as a war for profit at the expense of future generations must surely disgust most US citizens.

I shall stand by for the abuse from certain quarters…

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5 Comments Category: World literacy
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As President Obama moves into year 2 of his presidency, this now seasoned veteran world leader intends to address the pressing problems facing the nation and the world today. To seek solutions to these problems, he will bring to bear the same abilities and talents that he applied to make all of his great accomplishments of the past 12 months, such as winning the Nobel Peace Prize and his many other achievements which are simply too numerous to mention here. The President feels confident that these talents will play a key role in finding solutions to the many problems he…

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5 Comments Category: World literacy
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Doesn’t it seem weird to you that your gods would have their “messages” written down in books/scrolls during time periods when social literacy was almost non existent?

Would you rather be able to read something for yourself? Or simply take someones word for it while they read it to you?

How can it sit well with any of you that during the time the first messages were written down, and for thousands of years afterward the only people who could read and write were the upper class(Rich) and the Scribes who worked for them?

Take the bible for example? Doesn’t this…

1 Comment Category: World literacy
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this comapny as far as i know provides a humanitarian aid for the 3rd world countries who woiuld like to work in the US, UK and Canada. It sounds good but my friend needs more evidence whether this organization is LIGITIMATE. Your kind response is greatly appreciated.

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11 Comments Category: World literacy
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For example, Mississippi is known as one of the most, if not the most conservative state in the country, and it also boasts the lowest literacy rate, as does its other southern companions, such as Louisiana, Alabama, and Kentucky, etc.

While more liberal states that embrace diversity, homosexual rights, true religious freedom are far far more prosperous. For example, California and New York. California I believe either the 7 or 8 largest economy in the world. While more conservative states, that have a history and reputation of not being “open minded” or have a record of not respecting civil or…

5 Comments Category: World literacy
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I, alas, am a product of American society. I am limited, and I am stupid. By the standards of the average American, I am politically, culturally, and geographically literate. That is untrue. My geographical knowledge is spot-on for the US, and pretty good in Europe, Canada, the Middle East and Asia.

I can’t stand the state of politics and any American news is juvenile, sensationalized crap. I haven’t watched the news in a long, long time. I do read the NY Times, but I get bogged down because I lack even the most basic perspective of the last few years. I…

7 Comments Category: World literacy
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I’ve recently been watching videos on youtube from a channel called “failblog” and theres a lot of comments saying “typical dumb americans” or “stupid americans”. YOU ARE BEING RACIST JUST AS YOU ACCUSE US OF BEING RACIST. A “stupid american” is just as racist as suspecting every muslim of being a terrorist. AMERICA HAS THE HIGHEST LITERACY RATE IN THE WORLD AND HAS ONE OF THE HIGHEST IQ AVERAGES IN THE WORLD TOO. Please explain to me how that is “stupid” or “dumb”.

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19 Comments Category: World literacy
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It used to be the bastion of Conservativism. But that’s a political philosophy, requiring education, literacy, and, at the very least, an ability to spot England on a map of the world, an ability to understand the foundations of the culture it purports to preserve.

It requires something called fiscal conservativsm, as well.

The big-gun conservatives are deserting the party.

So who’s left (as it were)?

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2 Comments Category: World literacy
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For an economics project at school, we have to develop a 4th world country to a 1st world country…we have to purchase things such as resources, literacy, transportation, etc. The instructor informed us that there was a specific order that economists would follow when developing a country.

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4 Comments Category: World literacy
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Education being vocabulary, world history, civics and Cultural Literacy as defined by E.D. Hirsch.

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