Yet they are
functionally illiterate - they comprehend very little of what they can sound out.
The Iran Daily reported that Deputy Education Minister Ali Baqerzadeh said last Wednesday that 9.5 million Iranian adults are illiterate and an additional 11 million are
functionally illiterate.
Al Fayez explained that there are around 100 million children who got no education, 785 million people, mostly women, worldwide are considered
functionally illiterate as well as 200 million unemployed people.
He stressed the importance of learning to read during the years before third grade, pointing out that a good number of inmates are
functionally illiterate. In addition, 3,500 of Los Angeles County's inmates are mentally ill, many of them, McDonnell said, being "undermedicated or overmedicated."
Turner had to leave school after the third grade and was in fact
functionally illiterate when he started the company.
More specifically, she revealed that 60 percent of the 180 athletes she helped academically read at a fourth- to eighth- grade level and 10 percent of the athletes were
functionally illiterate.
Eighty-five percent of all children involved in the juvenile court system are
functionally illiterate and so it does not take a great leap to see how illiteracy undermines a child's foundation for success.
According to the World Literacy Foundation, six million Britons are illiterate while eight million are "
functionally illiterate" to the extent they struggle to read a check book or a medicine label which is out of sync with the CIA analysis.
In the article, 'Literacy is key to war on poverty,' (The Independent, December 17, 1999), Mr Blair said: "After more than a century of universal education, seven million people--over a fifth of the working age population--are
functionally illiterate, much worse than in most other western countries.
However, ReCom research also finds
functionally illiterate and innumerate children completing primary education.
No one is going to invest in an area when they read headlines that 40% of 11 year olds are "
functionally illiterate".
Furthermore, 33% of children in California are projected to never finish high school; the educational careers of 25% to 40% of American children are imperiled because they do not read well enough, quickly enough, or easily enough; since 1983, more than 10 million Americans have reached the 12th grade without having learned to read at a basic level, and in the same period, more than 6 million Americans dropped out of high school altogether; 50% of the nation's unemployed youth age 16-21 are
functionally illiterate, with virtually no prospects of obtaining good jobs; 44 million adults in the U.S.
He said Ayub was "
functionally illiterate" and not capable of keeping records of when the premises were cleaned.
