literacy
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It’s part of an effort to curb troubling math scores and is similar to a literacy screener already underway.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 1, 2026
Public school teachers are trained to teach literacy, history and social studies, not theology, leaving educators to navigate how biblical texts will be presented while serving students from diverse religious backgrounds.
From Salon • Jun. 27, 2026
And these furtive ads are so prevalent that mere diligence in scrolling or brush-ups on digital literacy aren’t sufficient solutions.
From Slate • Jun. 27, 2026
It’s cultural literacy to read about ‘the valley of the shadow of death.’
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 21, 2026
From the beginnings of literacy in China, it has had only a single writing system, whereas modern Europe uses dozens of modified alphabets.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Vocabulary lists containing literacy
Power Suffix: -acy
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