Sentence examples for illiterate students from inspiring English sources

As for Mr Nye, he was there because he worried that allowing creationism to be taught in schools as a scientifically valid alternative to evolution would produce "a generation of scientifically illiterate students" (others took less charitable views of Mr Nye's motives).

The optimistically named Urban Sanctuary High School suffers from absentee parents; a high concentration of aggressive, promiscuous, illiterate students, many with criminal records; teenage pregnancy; oppressive standardized testing; stripped budgets and resources; and incompetent, unfireable educators who have all but given up.

He asked how a pair of kangaroos on an ark that ran aground on a mountain in Turkey could have hopped their way to Australia, leaving neither descendants nor fossils anywhere in between.He worried that allowing creationism a veneer of scientific respectability would harm America by producing scientifically illiterate students.

However, roads that are rarely used, schools and colleges that graduate illiterate students and housing projects that disintegrate are nothing of the kind.

Although the university is very specific about hardware and software requirements, communication problems can still occur because of technical difficulties such as file incompatibility, downed servers, incompatible user systems, and technologically illiterate students and faculty.

A few illiterate students had to be excluded from the sample because they were not able to read or understand the questionnaire.

At William H. Maxwell Career and Technical Education High School in Brooklyn, for instance, a nearly illiterate student racked up many of his credits through after-school remediation programs.

Hazen and Trefil claim, "Every university in the country has the same dirty little secret: we are all turning out scientific illiterates, students incapable of understanding many of the newspaper items published on the very day of their graduation" (Hazen and Trefil 2009b).

"A Citizen's Fate", in which the manager of a meteorological station gets into trouble with the authorities because his accurate weather reports are "a bit on the depressing side", reminds me strongly of those university departments you hear of where not even the most illiterate and ignorant student is allowed to fail.

Wishing someone to die – journalist or not – struck me as a particularly un-Christmassy wish; so un-Chrismassy in fact, that I felt driven to reply, pointing out the various misspellings in his comment and offer seasons' greetings to TechCrunch's "illiterate college student readership".

After the adjustment female students, illiterate and only literate mothers group remained statistically significant with OR = 1.44, (95% CI = 1.14-1.82) and OR = 1.79 (95% CI = 1.04-2.75), respectively.