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5 Comments Category: World literacy
Tags: Countries, Highest, Literacy, Rates, World

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1 Comment Category: Literacy Development
Tags: Canada, Countries, Development, Literacy, Rate

Suggest two reasons explaining the difference between the Litercy Rate in Canada vs./and a country in development of any country. (In french it’s “taux d’alphabétisation”.
I would prefer longer and good answers. But if your answer is short, than that’s still alright. Thanks.

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17 Comments Category: Literacy Instruction
Tags: Behind, Countries, Education, Even, improves, Quality, Still, U.s., wont

In 2006 PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) ranked the U.S. 21th in relation to 57 other participating countries in science literacy. Apparently the scores tell us that the U.S. is way behind the Czech Republic, Croatia, EU nations and Japan. A similar story is to be found in the 2003 PISA report, where the U.S. again performed dismally in relation to other participating countries, falling right behind countries like Slovakia, Hungary and the Czech Republic. The report found that American students were generally poor at applying what they’ve learned from their math curriculum. It also discovered that there exists…

2 Comments Category: Illiteracy HELP
Tags: Countries, Developing, Education, expanding, Illiteracy, Main, Problem, wipe

PLEASE HELP thanX

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1 Comment Category: English Lesson Plans HELP
Tags: About, Countries, Culture, English, Lesson, Oral, Plans, speaking

Hey — I am psychologically getting ready to be stranded for two months in Quzhou, China.

I was thinking it would be cool to start planning some classes for the coming semester, since I dont really want to be unprepared. I’ve basically understood that in China I can teach whatever I want to and I was thinking of focusing on English speaking countries and their culture (feasts.. food).. any ideas to fulfill my list of topics??

English speaking countries: UK, US, Canada, Ireland, SA, NZ, Australia
Feasts: Halloween, Thanksgiving day, Xmas, Valentine’s day, Saint Patrick’s day, the 4th of July
Food and drinks: Fish…

11 Comments Category: Literacy Development
Tags: America, below, Countries, rank, Socialist

What I’ve done, is taken the human development index which takes into account alot of factors, and then I’ve compared that to what political system that country uses.

Human Development Index – Wealth (GDP), Health, Education, Literacy, Quality of Life.

1. Norway 0.971 (▲ 1) (Socialist)
2. Australia 0.970 (▲ 2) (Socialist)
3. Iceland 0.969 (▼ 2) (Socialist)
4. Canada 0.966 (▼ 1) (Conservative)
5. Ireland 0.965 (▬) (Independant? Don’t know)
6. Netherlands 0.964 (▬) (Socialist)
7. Sweden 0.963 (▬) (Socialist)
8. France 0.961 (▲ 3) (Socialist)
9. Switzerland 0.960 (▬) (Socialist)
10. Japan 0.960 (▬) (Socialist)
11. Luxembourg 0.960 (▼ 3) (Christian Social People’s Party)
12. Finland 0.959 (▲ 1) (Centrist)
13. United…

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3 Comments Category: Literacy
Tags: Countries, Developed, Less, Literacy, Rates

What steps are being taken to improve literacy rates in less developed countries?

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7 Comments Category: Literacy Development
Tags: Countries, Country, HDI., Islamic, List, single, There, Thirty

The Human Development Index (HDI) was developed in 1990 by the Pakistani economist Mahbub ul Haq. It is a comparative measure of poverty, literacy, education, life expectancy, childbirth, and other factors for countries worldwide & is a standard means of measuring well-being, especially child welfare.
In the list of top thirty countries there is not a single Islamic country which should have been the case as they control most of the world’s oil & the associated revenue. Why is it so?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDI

Fareed – In Islam, there is hardly any distinction between religion & politics
Perdpherde- This just goes to show that the rating…

5 Comments Category: World literacy
Tags: Asia, Coalition, Countries, Employment, Extends, Global, Hand, Helping, Like, Literacy, really, World

Is Global Employment & Literacy Coalition really exists & do they really employ people from 3rd world countries to the U.S., U.K., Canada, & Germany?

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2 Comments Category: World literacy
Tags: Aids, Could, Countries, Effect, Literacy, literacy rate, Rates, Third, World

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