The Jamaican Foundation for Lifelong Learning (JFLL) is reporting that the country’s adult literacy rate is now at 87 per cent. Deputy Executive Director and Director of Education Services at JFLL Dr Grace-Camille Munroe said this is very positive, as the island is coming from a rate of 50 per

Adult literacy and high college equivalency diploma teachers instruct adults in basic skills, such as reading, writing, and speaking English. They also help students earn their high college equivalent diploma.

UNICEF is committed to doing all it can to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in partnership with governments, civil society, business, academia and the United Nations family – and especially ren and people.

Literacy data published by UNESCO displays that since 1950, the adult literacy rate at the world level has increased by 5 percentage points every decade on average, from 55.7 per cent in 1950 to 86.2 per cent in 2015. However, for four decades, the population growth was so rapid that the number of illiterate adults kept increasing, rising from 700 …

Learn the facts about adult literacy and the far reaching effect low literacy has in the United States and abroad.

If you are reading this, then by definition you don’t have a problem that more than 20 percent of the adults in the nation’s capital struggle with every day: illiteracy.

A well-trained teacher or tutor in an adult literacy program should be trained in at least three methods, including the multisensory approach, which has proven to be effective for adult students with learning disabilities.

international statistics on literacy which in turn will permit targeted policy interventions in those countries where it is needed. (e) Alternative Definitions: To meet the limitations discussed in 4c above, the definition and measurement of functional literacy represents an improved indicator.

Shocking Statistics. The “Adult Literacy in America” study initiated by Congress in 1988 and reported upon in 1993 was a $14 million 5-year study by the National Assessment Governing Board in conjunction with the National Center for Educational Statistics based upon lengthy interviews with 26,000 adults from 16 to 65 years old in a dozen states.

This is a list of countries by literacy rate.The figures represented are almost entirely collected by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) on behalf of UNESCO with 2015 estimates based on people aged 15 or over who can read and write. Where data is taken from a different source, notes are provided. The data is collated by mostly using …