By making teachers accountable to local governments, Bihar, India's most unlettered state, roughly halved its truancy rate last year.

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Many trial participants are too unlettered to understand what is going on.

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It weds the oral culture of his unlettered mother (the dedicatee of all his books) to an omnivorous bibliophilia encouraged by his stepfather, a hotel receptionist in Pointe-Noire on the Atlantic coast.

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He installed his unlettered wife in his stead.

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Yet to widespread surprise, including his family's, Mr Chandler soon set about turning the Times into a serious, intelligent and broadly fair-minded paper better suited to the increasingly varied people now pouring into southern California, not all of whom were as vacuous and unlettered as their reputation supposed.

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