So, anyone up for making high school students pass a civic literacy test before being allowed to graduate?
Meanwhile, plenty of popular movies flunk the scientific literacy test. (See: 10 Films That Would Flunk Science Class).
The 75% passing score on a literacy test was too high, and "minimum qualifications" required only passing scores in the 66%-to-70% range.
North Carolina Democrats began passing a flurry of Jim Crow laws in 1899, and new voting restrictions further disenfranchised blacks through a poll tax and literacy test.
" So he proposes an SEC-administered "financial literacy test" that would allow those who pass it to participate in SecondMarket and "any type of investment that is not an SEC-registered investment product.
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His victory was challenged after newspapers reported that he could not read or write - but after he passed a basic literacy test, a judge in Sao Paulo ruled that he could take up his seat.
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The majority of the sample was able to perform as high as level four (out of five) of the literacy test, meaning they were able to read, comprehend and answer questions about a simple text, and level three in numeracy, i.e. they were able to perform basic arithmetic operations.
The prize winner for application ideas concerning literacy was Test On Texts by Sanjith Yeruva (India), a mobile application that helps students assess their knowledge via text questions and suggests content in an intuitive manner.
Describing the report as a "wake up call for the new government", Plaid Cymru Education Spokesperson Simon Thomas called for the reintroduction of literacy and numeracy test by September 2011.
The report said head teachers and council officials also wanted to see a stronger literacy element and a test that would avoid commercial exploitation, such as the marketing of practice materials to parents.
And the surveys might test different aspects of literacy, numeracy and science, it added.
The Court of Appeal heard that the scam was motivated by Michael's fear of sitting the test due to his literacy problems.
But some literacy experts and teaching unions say the test can mean good readers, who struggle with made-up words, can be labelled as failures.
Prior to the beginning of classes, learners are required to take an assessment test aimed at verifying their entry knowledge on basic literacy and numeracy through the identification of letters, syllables, words, sentences, numbers, arithmetic operations and writing down their personal details.
Apart from empowering teachers from the Zithobeni community, the training will also test some models of UNESCO's Draft Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Curriculum in order to subsequently adapt it for the needs of rural communities.
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