Did some reading, writing.
He supposedly completed high school, but has poor reading and writing skills.
Difficulties with phonological awareness are also common and predict later poor reading and writing [ 15, 16].
In his introduction, the N.E.A. chairman, Dana Gioia, wrote, "Poor reading skills correlate heavily with lack of employment, lower wages, and fewer opportunities for advancement".
Cloud DX, one of the runners in the race, has already created a wearable device that captures these vital signs, and applies appropriate algorithms to them to spot potential problems.Other prizes announced recently include one of $15m for open-source software that will teach children in poor countries how to read, write and do sums within a period of 18 months.
When I wrote that Kanye West's The Life of Pablo was the worst album release in music history a lot of people were angry, mostly because they have poor reading comprehension skills (they thought I wrote that it was the "worst album") and don't actually read the things they claim to be furious about.
With characteristic courage, he refused to cave in to increasingly poor health, and continued to read, write and teach even after he had become, in effect, a semi-invalid.
"Poor reading skills snowball through the grades," he writes.
This is only a few points behind the national average and is all the more impressive given that many of the 11-year-olds joining the school are very poor at reading and writing.
This cynical response is a tragedy for poor children, who make up a disproportionate number of students who do not learn to read, write or compute.
