World Literacy Rate

There is a serious problem in this country among young people because they cannot read well enough to get a good job with a career path once they leave school, participate in civic responsibilities, or even read a book or newspaper (Every, 2003). Because of their low level of practical literacy, they are being left behind at a time when society and the workplace are becoming increasingly technological and requiring higher levels of reading, writing, and communication skills to compete. The No Child Left Behind Act attempts to make American schools face the fact that young people are leaving school without adequate reading and writing skills because it requires they be proficient in reading/language arts and mathematics by the end of 2013-2014. The Partnership for Reading, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the office of Vocational and Adult Education, the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, and the Institute of Education Sciences within t

This is an excerpt from the paper... The population of adult learners is increasing beyond that of any other segment of the population groups in higher education (Bowden & Merritt, 1995). Teaching literacy, technology, and more to adults is a common practice. Adult education is a source for information and services for some and it is a way to achieve higher degrees and wages for others (Ashcroft, 2003; Elman & O'Rand, 2004; Goodson, 2002). Adult education is advertised as having the ability to change an individual's life (Denyer, Gill, & Turner, 2003). Ntiri (1999) described the typical adult learner as female, and employed full-time in a technical, business, or professional field. These students are called nontraditional since they differ from the average college students ranging in age from 18 to 24 years. Richardson and King (1998) noted that while the adult learner tends to be female and of a minority ethnic group, the usual underpinning a

Terrorism is the worst form of illiteracy when people do not have sense to realize the importance of innocent lives which are lost in the terrorist activities. Some people consider poverty as one of the major causes of terrorism. If people are given enough education to cope up poverty, this might enable people becoming less hopeful and going for the bold steps such as getting involved in wrong or criminal activities. In Pakistan, government is making its best efforts to reduce the illiteracy rate as a result of which the standard of education in Pakistan is increasing day by day. However terrorism will take time to remove.

Main causes are that urban areas in Pakistan are less whereas rural areas are more, rural areas are not developed and most of the areas don't have schools and if they do then they are of very low standards, in many areas people don't send their daughters to schools as they believe it is worthless to send them, it is just wasting of money, some people are brain washed who believe that education is against Islam, basically they are following to the muslims who had said this before independence of pakistan to deny british education, that time the british was being quite unfair to the muslims after the war of independence of 1857, british believed muslims were the ones who mainly did this revolt against british and they took some measures against muslim community by not funding muslim schools and rather forcing them to take british education aur none at all and even christanity was being taught in those british schools(not sure that they were forcing non-christian students to study

STATISTICS From various sources: Total Adult Literacy Rate : 55% - (UNICEF Pakistan Statistics 2007) Total Adult Literacy Rate : 54% ( Male 66.25% , Female 41.75%) - (Pakistan’s Ministry Of Education) Punjab : 60.8% (Male 70%, Female 51%) NWFP : 47.4% (Male 63%, Female 30.8%) Sindh : 51.5% (Male 60.5%, Female 42.5%) Balochistan : 34% (Male 45%, Female 23%) Total Literacy Rate : 49% Wiki Rankings Total Literacy Rate 50% CIA Factbook - Est 2005)

Province Literacy Rate Punjab 46.56% Sindh 45.29% NWFP 35.41% Balochistan 26.6%