Adult-Literacy Test Introduced to Developing Nations
Results will help pinpoint flaws in elementary and secondary schooling.
The recent White House Conference on Global Literacy hosted here by first lady Laura Bush coincided with the rollout of a new international assessment that holds the promise of providing a much more accurate picture of adult illiteracy in developing countries than ever before.
It is designed to help countries understand better the weaknesses in their primary and secondary school systems and nonformal education programs in order to reduce high illiteracy rates among all.
At the Sept. 18 conference at the New York Public Library, Mrs. Bush announced a donation of $1 million by the U.S. government to the Literacy Assessment and Monitoring Program, or LAMP, of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. ( "President, First Lady Back Global Literacy to Fight ‘Hopelessness,’" ...
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