health-care provided by a country‚ but also to the country’s socio-economic and cultural aspects‚ in which women are usually at a great disadvantage. Most maternal deaths are avoidable and should be avoided. This essay discusses the relation between high literacy rates and low mortality rates in different states in India. The Office of the Registrar General‚ India‚ under the Ministry of Home Affairs compiled a Special Bulletin on Maternal Mortality in India for the years 2007-2009 using the Sample Registration
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October 2009 Number 345 TEACHING CHILDREN TO READ Reading is the gateway to learning; without it‚ children cannot access a broad and balanced curriculum. Dyslexic difficulties are associated with negative educational‚ employment and economic outcomes‚ making reading-related issues relevant to various policy domains. This POSTnote explains the reading process and the underlying basis of specific reading difficulties. It also summarises different methods of reading instruction‚ and examines their
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The Printing Press and the Cultural Emancipation of Early-Modern Europe‚ 1450-1800 Merriam-Webster’s English dictionary defines emancipation as the‚ "...[freedom] from restraint‚ control‚ or the power of another‚ and [freedom] from any controlling influence." The cultural emancipation that began in early-modern Europe prior to the Renaissance had a deep effect on the lives of its constituents. The printing press‚ invented in 1455 by Johannes Gutenberg‚ presented the public with a new forum for
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encouraging them and ensuring children have access to and are able to use material needed to complete tasks or activities of their own choice. Sometimes I help children who need extra support to complete tasks‚ individually and in groups (support literacy and numeracy activities in the classroom). When children who are upset I comfort them and if they have an accident I report it to the supervisor immediately‚ as I am waiting to do my First Aid course. I actively get involved in playing various
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going to pass us in English literacy rates? Scholars and non-scholars alike have decided that reform is needed to improve our entire education system for the students and our country. English experts have tried to solve our ever declining literacy rates with different theories and years of research. Two of the front runners‚ Paulo Freire and E. D. Hirsch‚ have come up with two ideas that have caused agreement and contention between those who are trying to increase literacy rates. Freire gives us the
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place they came to call home‚ Puritans sought out to discover the purpose God had brought them here. In doing so they developed a theory that God had determined they be bestowed with literacy‚ leaving illiterate ministries in the past (as noted in A Statement about Education in New England‚ 1643). The expansion of literacy influenced Puritans to become more involved in society‚ as most began to read the bible. As Christians‚ colonists of New England in the 17th century‚ felt compelled to be devoted to
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than growth. It typically refers toimprovements in literacy rates‚ life expectancy‚ and poverty rates.Whereas‚ the term economic growth refers to the increase /growth of aspecific measure such as real national income‚ gross domestic product‚or per capita income. There are various indicators of economic development which are asfollows: • Literacy rates‚ • Poverty‚ • Life expectancy‚ • Natural resources‚ • Infrastructure‚ etc. Literacy and economic development: A simple definition of the
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A Lesson from the Amish? This essay takes a different view on how our children should be taught basic literacy skills‚ and it starts with having a greater connection with your family. Basic learning skills must start at a very young age when the child’s brain is most capable retaining information. The father of the household will start by reading a children s Disney story to his six year old son. Though the boy is not able at this young age to read or write‚ he is actively participating and gaining
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Legal Education in a Changing World‚ op.cit. p.56 5. Shahdeen Malik‚ Continuing Legal Education‚ pamphlet circulated by Legal Education Committee of the Bangladesh bar Council‚ 1995‚ p.1. 6. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Bangladesh 7. LITERACY SITUATION DURING BANGLADESH PERIOD (2005); Banglapedia 8. Education Programme of BRAC (2012); BRAC Website 9. Ahmed Ishrak (2011); AID VOLATILITY AND THE PATTERN OF EDUCATION SPENDING IN BANGLADESH; Bangladesh Development Studies‚ Vol 10. World Bank
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I really enjoyed school. Everyone has heard of Hooked on Phonics. For those who don’t know what Hooked on Phonics is‚ it’s a program for children to take that helps them learn to read by using auditory and visual guides that help them achieve literacy. Yet many people do not realize how useful of a product Hooked on Phonics really is. It helped me achieve a more enriched life. When I was in the ninth year of my life I had a real hard time trying to comprehend the material that was presented to
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