Literacy is a cause for celebration since there are now
close to four billion literate people in the world. However, literacy for all
– children, youth and adults - is still an unaccomplished goal and an ever
moving target. A combination of ambitious goals, insufficient and parallel
efforts, inadequate resources and strategies, and continued underestimation
of the magnitude and complexity of the task accounts for this unmet goal.
Lessons learnt over recent decades show that meeting the goal of universal literacy
calls not only for more effective efforts but also for renewed political will
and for doing things differently at all levels - locally, nationally and
internationally.
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Ending illiteracy could
also mean ending poverty, hopelessness
An estimated 775 million adults and 122 million children are unable to read or write, missing out on the positives of globalization while disproportionately bearing its negatives, write Irina Bokova, director-general of UNESCO, and Laura Bush, an honorary ambassador with the UN agency, in recognition of International Literacy Day last week. While most of the world's illiterate live in developing countries, many adults remain functionally illiterate in the developed world, too. Houston Chronicle (9/7) The Hill/Congress Blog (9/7)
An estimated 775 million adults and 122 million children are unable to read or write, missing out on the positives of globalization while disproportionately bearing its negatives, write Irina Bokova, director-general of UNESCO, and Laura Bush, an honorary ambassador with the UN agency, in recognition of International Literacy Day last week. While most of the world's illiterate live in developing countries, many adults remain functionally illiterate in the developed world, too. Houston Chronicle (9/7) The Hill/Congress Blog (9/7)
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