Sentence examples for years literacy from inspiring English sources

For thousands of years literacy belonged to the rich, the powerful, and their administrators.

Entry criteria included an age of at least 18 years, literacy, and a willingness to provide personal contact information.

In Burkina, over many years, literacy programs in vernacular languages have been offered to villagers.

The overall mean age was 34 ± 13 years with an age range from 15 to 94 years, literacy was 83% (n = 177) and 70% (n = 148) were married.

The socio-demographic characteristics include their age (in completed years), literacy (the ability to both read and write) and marital status (currently married verses not).

The duration of the assessment depended on the availability of recent and relevant test results on the instruments included in the test battery (i.e., IQ not older than 2 years, literacy not older than 6 months).

It improved their chances of mastering second-year literacy by 9.9 percentage points.

David Figlio, a professor of education and social policy at Northwestern University, said that because of Florida's accountability measures, which are more nuanced than the national No Child Left Behind standards, "early-year literacy and numeracy skills seem to be improving, especially for schools that serve disadvantaged populations".

Similarly, the reporting on the Yuyay Jap'ina report on the enrolment in the two-year literacy causes, but they say nothing about the level of literacy attained, or about drop-out rates and other problems of quality and retention of learning.

But humans have been reading for fewer than 6,000 years (and literacy has been widespread for no more than a century and a half).

While many early diarists, like Mr. Juet, tended to be in official positions, as years and literacy advanced, more personal writing not intended for mass consumption was created and preserved.