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You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

George W. Bush

One of the ways to chip away at the financial literacy problem in our country is to get to the kids early and let them develop positive behaviors and attitudes.

George Carlin

She's invaluable. Honestly, without having me being a literacy coach, there is no way we could run the program.

Michelle Anderson

This indicates that, despite the attention now paid to the lack of financial literacy, the problem is not about to resolve itself anytime soon.

Lewis Mandell

We are looking at the definition of 'promoting literacy' in a broad sense.

Hut Landon

We're focusing on trying to have all kids be successful learners and we continue to keep our focus on closing the achievement gap and issues around literacy and math, for kids.

George Russell

Those schools that are making strides in literacy - they have literacy coaches.

Sabrina Pellett

Financial literacy is still a very significant problem. It doesn't seem to be getting any better.

Lewis Mandell

It's children and literacy and reaching out to them. Cynthia has some great ideas on how to reach out to them. We really can't say too much yet.

Terry Mcgowan

The entire district is really focused on literacy.

Virginia Bowerman

Measuring literacy is a complicated task -- one challenge is that we are testing adults, and you don't find them gathered in classrooms.

Mark Schneider

In our language arts instruction, we have taken a balance approach to literacy with strong focus on phonics.

Ray Morgan

High literacy rates in the state could be a major reason for this change.

Poonam Chauhan

Head Start believes in father involvement and literacy enhancement, and this event celebrates the important impact fathers have on their children's early social, emotional, and educational development.

Mary Reed

It has been Cynthia's desire to work with children's literacy.

Terry Mcgowan

It gives a chance for kids to see more aspects of literacy if we do it in a week.

Rich Bernstein

It's just to celebrate literacy more than anything. We want students to know that they can read for pleasure as well as to get information.

Jane Harrison

Even though we still have a lot of areas where they're not doing well in college literacy, at least they're not doing worse than their parents and grandparents.

Stephane Baldi

It's just another way that our district supports literacy.

Jane Harrison

If we want the PC market to grow, we need to break that lock between PC literacy and English.

Ajay Gupta

Literacy is such a complicated adventure today.

David Booth

We are thrilled to work with Mr. Buffett to develop a series that will teach financial literacy to kids.

Andy Heyward

We are developing technological literacy in Brazil , and this is an affordable way to bring technology to people.

Djalma Valois Filho

We're looking to expand people's financial literacy. There's lots more people can do, if they only know about it.

Wally Donnelly

They will want to know why the Government has deprived them, and their families, of this opportunity. This flies in the face of everything the country is trying to achieve on skills. Computer literacy has to be a given in a globally competitive economy.

Sir Digby Jones

We go beyond the literacy in our conversational English classes by meeting basic human needs.

Janet Smith

To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.

Munshi Premchand

America can no longer take active and engaged literacy for granted.

Dana Gioia

A lot of people come in with literacy problems, and we end up helping them with different things. It seems like literacy and social services.

Violeta Torres

All part of financial literacy.

Pat Schneider

Our goal is to promote literacy in the home ... so that they'll develop a love for reading.

Janice Glaze

I really think it's a tribute to Carl. To me, it's a kind of instant scientific literacy.

Ann Druyan

What a joy, that literacy is no longer prima facie evidence of treason.

John Steinbeck

The definition (of literacy) could be individual, depending on the person's goals.

Karen Mcgregor

We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse.

E. D. Hirsch, Jr.