Increasing adult literacy: a focus on reading speed and accuracy (English)

Almost one billion people worldwide cannot read, despite increased primary education enrollments. Literacy is essential to meet the Millennium Development Goals. Further, one of the objectives of the Education for All initiative is to achieve a 50 percent improvement in levels of adult literacy by 2015, especially for women, and equitable access to basic and continuing education for all adults. The report examines how much progress has been made toward...

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Abadzi,Helen;
Document Date
2005/09/30
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Brief
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37708
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1
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1
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World,
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Other,
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2010/07/01
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Increasing adult literacy: a focus on reading speed and accuracy
Keywords
education for all initiative

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Abadzi,Helen.

Increasing adult literacy: a focus on reading speed and accuracy (English). OED Precis ; No. 236 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/740161468762872125

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