Definition: This entry includes a definition of literacy and Census Bureau percentages for the total population, males, and females. There are no universal definitions and standards of literacy. Unless otherwise specified, all rates are based on the most common definition - the ability to read and write at a specified age. Detailing the standards that individual countries use to assess the ability to read and write is beyond the scope of the Factbook. Information on literacy, while not a perfect measure of educational results, is probably the most easily available and valid for international comparisons. Low levels of literacy, and education in general, can impede the economic development of a country in the current rapidly changing, technology-driven world.
Source: CIA World Factbook - Unless otherwise noted, information in this page is accurate as of January 1, 2020
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Misinformation won’t go away, but media literacy can help fight it
devdiscourse - 1/17/2023 11:17:00 AM
Learners are encouraged to ask three critical questions when they encounter information online who is behind this information, what is the evidence being presented to me and what do other sources say.
Editorial: Student literacy declines reflect Oregon’s absentee education department
Oregonian - 1/15/2023 5:11:00 PM
Even with years of little improvement in reading test scores and research supporting alternative approaches, Oregon’s education department is only now revising its teaching framework, the editorial board writes.
Parents concerned over New Jersey's 'media literacy' class for students being 'weaponized for political power'
Fox News on MSN.com - 1/11/2023 7:00:59 AM
Parents are worried that a New Jersey law requiring all students in grades K-12 to be taught "media literacy" could have negative consequences for kids in the Garden State.
How anti-vaxxers exploited Hamlin collapse and other news literacy lessons
The Washington Post on MSN.com - 1/11/2023 7:23:37 PM
Here’s the latest installment of a regular feature I’ve been running for several years: lessons from the nonprofit News Literacy Project (NLP), which aims to teach students and the public how to sort fact from fiction in our digital — and contentious — age.
World Computer Literacy Day 2022 Today; Know History, Significance
NDTV - 12/2/2022 3:35:00 AM
World Computer Literacy Day is celebrated on December 2 ... envelope to symbolise the spread of computer literacy across the country was also unveiled." This initiative, Mr Pawar added, soon ...
Literacy Software for Kids Market Geographical Segmentation By Forecast Revenue 2023-2029
MarketWatch - 1/12/2023 11:47:00 PM
Literacy Software for Kids Market" is segmented by Company, Region (country), By Type, Application, stakeholders and
WEF: Saudi Arabia Among Top 10 Countries in Digital Literacy
Al Bawaba News - 12/17/2020 1:47:00 PM
Saudi Arabia ranked among the top ten countries in digital literacy in a report by the World Economic Forum, the Saudi Press Agency has reported. The Kingdom joins other developed nations in the ...
World Literacy Day: Obaseki harps on promotion of Edo language, digital learning
This Day - 12/14/2022 12:00:00 AM
Despite progress made, literacy challenges persist, distributed unevenly across countries and populations ... Capital Territory and around the world. It is Nigeria’s most authoritative news ...
COUNTRY DIRECTOR UNESCO SAYS PAKISTAN AMBITIOUS IN ATTAINING 90% LITERACY TARGET UNDER VISION 2025
Radio Pakistan - 12/16/2022 3:16:00 AM
Country Director UNESCO in Pakistan Vibeke Jensen has said that Pakistan is ambitious in attaining 90 per cent literacy target under its vision 2025. In an exclusive interview with News and Current Affairs Channel of Radio Pakistan on World's Literacy Day ...
'What is true?': Gov. Murphy signs information literacy education law
NorthJersey.com on MSN.com - 1/5/2023 3:17:18 PM
Librarians across the state were a key part of the push to make information literacy part of the public schools' learning standards.
