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Tag: Literacy

Read To Be Ready Program Promotes Better Literacy Teaching in TN

Posted: October 1, 2016 at 5:20 pm   /   Education

(Photo: Pixabay, Creative Commons) The Tennessee Department of Education has joined with roughly 90 districts in the state to create a network that trains teachers in the best ways to teach children literacy skills. The goal is to get more students reading on grade level, and the Read to be Ready coaching network will train and […]

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College Students Miss Mark on Financial Literacy, Survey Shows

Posted: June 1, 2016 at 5:22 pm   /   Education

(Photo: Flickr, Creative Commons) LendEdu, an online marketplace created to offer student loan borrowers insight into their personal finances and loans without damaging their credit, has released its 2016 College Students and Personal Finance Study — and the results show a high degree of financial uncertainty among college students. The study surveyed current college students […]

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College Students Lack Literacy with Credit Cards, Survey Shows

Posted: April 29, 2016 at 5:21 pm   /   Education

(Photo: LaTunya Howard, Creative Commons) A new survey from LendEDU suggests that college students know surprisingly little about credit cards, finding that only 9.44% of those surveyed even know the current interest rate on their card. Created in order to more completely understand financial literacy and how credit cards are used among current college students, […]

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Despite More Tech Use, Australia Computer Literacy Skills Decline

Posted: November 20, 2015 at 5:25 pm   /   Education

Results of national information and communication technology tests show that computer literacy skills have declined across Australia over the past three years despite an increase in the use of laptops and iPads. The tests, taken by over 10,000 students in years 6 and 10 from 650 government, Catholic and independent schools every three years since 2005, […]

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