The caveat is, however, that a decade of testing the numeracy and literacy skills of seven-, 11-, 14- and 16-year-olds has not reduced the number of employers complaining that job entrants lack basic skills.
Instead, WBRC reports, Davis is propelled by her love of literacy and her more than two decades of nonprofit work in a small community south of the border.
What we do have are decades of peer-reviewed literacy research that points to the need for a balanced approach that is grounded in helping children to communicate using spoken and written language while also helping them identify individual letters and recognize the use of print.
Today, because of the enormous increase in the velocity of communications and the diffusion of literacy, the assimilation of foreign languages requires mere decades, or even years, rather than centuries.
In the seven decades of Soviet rule, the country's population tripled, the average life expectancy doubled, and the rate of literacy soared to almost a hundred per cent.
In the first decade of the 21st century, the state's literacy rate (more than 70 percent) significantly exceeded the national average.
Too much Confucianism, low levels of literacy.
His was a democracy of literacy.
But what about the language of literacy?
We're sorry about lack of literacy.
