literacy

Obama is creating a generation of people that can't read or write. Tahanks Obammma! By Bradlee Dean Interesting. So....the President that didn't lead American into a near great depression and at least one completely screwed up war is the biggest failure. That is just so interesting. But...

Yesterday my daughter told me that her (Japanese) teacher told her that the literacy rate in the UK was only 60%. I found that figure hard to believe. Maybe they are talking about people who aren't literate above a certain grade level, like middle school or primary school, rather than people...

The geekiness overfloweth. And I love it! The Periodic Table of Comic Books

According to a 2005 report by the United Nations, the United States is in 55th place in it literacy rates. Countries with higher literacy rates include Australia, Germany, Iceland, Netherlands, Sweden, Kazakhstan, Albania, Mongolia. http://hdr.undp.org/reports/global/2005/pdf/HDR05_HDI.pdf...

I was at a conference recently where the speaker talked about the wretched literacy rates in the United States. He cited the study (National Assessment of Adult Literacy NAAL – A First Look at the Literacy of American Adults in the 21st Century - http://nces.ed.gov/NAAL/PDF/2006470_1.PDF) One...

The National Geographic-Roper 2002 Global Geographic Literacy Survey IIRC (it's been a while, OK?), I had geography in grammar school from 4th to 10th grade, and 1 year in high school. To me, it's one of the starting points in understanding the world around us. It makes little sense to talk...

As technologies for recording, accessing, and editing sounds (spoken words) become more sophisticated and less expensive, perhaps it will be less expensive to use such technologies than to teach the next generation to read and write. For example, a spoken word could be recognized and...