Accordingly, it is estimated that only about 50% of rural women are functionally illiterate.
Overall, one third of the indigenous population is considered to be functionally illiterate.
This is merely the reading of it by the outraged women of the WMC (and others) who are thus functionally illiterate.
No wonder over one-fifth of American adults are functionally illiterate.
It is estimated that every year about 7 million children fail to attend school or drop out of school before completing primary education, thus about 60 million Bangladeshis are functionally illiterate.
Against this background, the programme does appear to be yielding some benefits for a group that includes some particularly disadvantaged individuals: two-fifths of those entering the New Deal are functionally illiterate.
But since my mom is functionally illiterate and we grew up on the west side of Detroit, I'm forced to go to this school that has been a poor-performing school for 30 years.
WSJ: The Weekend Interview with Jalen Rose: From the Fab Five to the Three Rs
Millions of kids are leaving school functionally illiterate.
Yet in spite of this impressive record, 9% of students are unable to complete their schooling and as such, as of 2004, about 220.000 young people had basic education while 0, 6% adults were totally illiterate, and between 6, 5% and 11, 2% (or four million) were functionally illiterate.
For instance, recent studies by the University of the West Indies (UWI, 1995), Griffith (2002) and Pacheco (2004) revealed that over 20% of the adult population (aged 15 and above) are illiterate and about 40% of the youth population (aged 15 to 24 years) are functionally illiterate.
Recognising the existence of these socio-economic and psychological barriers to education, the German Adult Education Association (GAEA) initiated the Ich-will-lernen (I want to learn) Programme in an effort to provide functionally illiterate adults and youths an opportunity to learn how to read and write through the use of the internet.
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