Sentence examples for declining literacy from inspiring English sources

Caleb Crain's superb essay on declining literacy, "Twilight of the Books," could have been titled "Twilight of the Reading Brain" (A Critic at Large, December 24th & 31st).

We grieve about America's declining literacy.

A 2005 federally sponsored study finds declining literacy among the college educated.

(The shameful fact that one-third of American teenagers drop out of school is deeply connected to declining literacy and reading comprehension).

However, the increasing maternal mortality in the 1990s was not mirrored by declining female literacy, and the effect of literacy on MMR may follow a significant time lag enough for other changes intermediate to reduced MMR to manifest.

As a cross-sectional investigation, we are limited to the extent we can infer a temporal relationship between increasing age and declining health literacy.

As there probably is everywhere else, there's a declining level of literacy at M.F.A. programs.

The theory arose in part as a reaction to crude biological explanations of fertility declines; it rationalized them in solely socioeconomic terms, as consequences of widespread desire for fewer children caused by industrialization, urbanization, increased literacy, and declining infant mortality.

When literacy declines so does our ability to understand the world, analyze problems, measure raw emotional rhetoric against the substance of coherent ideas, and make the meaningful, intelligent judgments necessary to constructive action.

"Already literacy standards are declining," Greenfield asserts.

The Kremlin's duty, Putin explained, is to counter the decline in literacy and restore Russia as "a reading nation".