In addition to recording heavenly observations and portents, preparing the calendar, and reporting which days were auspicious and which ill-omened, Zhang was also in charge of an advanced literacy test for all candidates to the Imperial Secretariat and the Censorate, both of whose members were required to know at least 9,000 characters and all major writing styles.
Post IPO, its philanthropic dollars are valued around $1.5 billion, which will be used for projects such as improving water quality in Kenya, advancing literacy in India and helping develop affordable goods and services for the billions of people in the world who live on a few dollars a day.
For example, an English graduate can typically "use advanced literacy skills to communicate effectively in an appropriate style"; or "apply sustained written and oral arguments coherently and persuasively".
As our societies become increasingly centered around information and technology, digital reading is another reason why advanced literacy is an essential requirement for participation in the labor market and civic life in many regions (Genlott and Grönlund 2013).
The two have also set up the EkStep Foundation, an open-learning platform that has pooled resources to advance literacy and numeracy.
Certainly, that development allowed the financing of patronage, advanced literacy, and in many ways offered a new way of looking at the world.
Just think of all of the landmark achievements that would not have been possible without these advanced literacy skills — from Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech to Watson and Crick's discovery of the structure of DNA.
His hope is to advance literacy amongst young black males in his community -- a county where just over 60percentt of black students graduate from high school.
Develop advanced literacy in the research methods of these topics.
The printing press advanced literacy and the exchange of ideas.
This dichotomy would point to different, even opposing, ways to develop advanced literacy.
