That means 14 percent are illiterate and an additional 16 percent
functionally illiterate, or 30 percent unable to function in modern society, more than double the 14 percent found in the United States.
The report on literacy in Key Stage 3 follows claims by Estyn's chief inspector, Ann Keane, that a fifth of pupils enter secondary schools in Wales
functionally illiterate.
Mexico's total population was over 13 million, of whom an estimated 62.3% were
functionally illiterate" (p.
They're backing the National Literacy Trust's campaign One in Six - the number of adults who are
functionally illiterate. They'll be in Exmouth, Devon, today.
The current prediction is that by 1990, fifty percent of the American populace will be
functionally illiterate. We have to ask ourselves whether that problem is of lesser concern than whether school libraries offer their youthful patrons the books of Judy Blume.
Dressed in numbers, the facts are the following--more than 40 per cent of Bulgarian ninth-graders are
functionally illiterate, according to the latest report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development programme for international student assessment (PISA).
Shocking statistics punctuate the history: The city has the highest unemployment rate (28.9%) in the nation; 47% of residents are
functionally illiterate; 33.8% live below the poverty line.
Dyslexic Ron Davis, was '
functionally illiterate' at school.
At the age of 38, Davis, who was labelled
functionally illiterate at school, discovered a way to switch off the mental processes that caused him to see printed words in a distorted way.
For example, I learned that 58% of black fourth graders are
functionally illiterate. People don't know that.
Functionally illiterate, Gloria faces a future life similar to that of her beloved family: poverty, survival, illness.
The number of 16 to 19-year-olds rendered
functionally illiterate and innumerate has failed to improve over the past two decades, despite billions spent attempting to raise standards in the three Rs".