60 Literacy Quotes for You to Enjoy

Let's be clear about what Common Core is. It spells out what students should know at the end of each grade. The goal is to ensure that our students are sound in math and literacy and that our schools have some basic consistency nationwide. But the standards do not dictate a national curriculum, and teachers are not told how or what to teach. Campbell Brown

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When I say 'publishing is the new literacy,' I don't mean there's no role for curation, for improving material, for editing material, for fact-checking material. I mean literally, the act of putting something out in public used to be reserved in the same way. Clay Shirky

Editing Way Say Out Something Putting New Material Role Improving Same Literacy Literally Public Mean Act Used Reserved Publishing

The commitment to literacy was constant on the part of African Americans. And the percentages of literacy by the end of the century, by 1900, basic literacy has galloped ahead. People believed that education, of course, was the turnstile for advancement. David Levering Lewis

Education Commitment People Constant Part Advancement Course End American African African Americans Literacy Century Believed Basic

As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism. Dennis Potter

Best Writing Criticism Kind About Piece Freud Literacy Displaced

There are still many tribal cultures where poetry and song, there is just one word for them. There are other cultures with literacy where poetry and song are distinguished. But poetry always remembers that it has its origins in music. Edward Hirsch

Music Song Word Tribal Other Distinguished One Word Poetry Remembers Always Still Cultures Just Where Literacy Just One Them Many Origins

I would like to make sure, first of all, that our women in the informal sector - I mean, these are the farmers and the traders; many of them are not educated, many of them lacking literacy - be able to give them better working conditions. And we've done a lot to be able to achieve that. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Women Better Achieve First Our Sector Would Able Give Like First Of All Make Sure Educated Conditions Lot Done Lacking Literacy Informal Mean Them Working Farmers Many

Cyberattacks have become a permanent fixture on the international scene because they have become easy and cheap to launch. Basic computer literacy and a modest budget can go a long way toward invading a country's cyberspace. Evgeny Morozov

Social-enterprise employees earn wages and pay taxes, reducing their recidivism rates and dependence on government assistance. They also receive crucial on-the-job training, job-readiness skills, literacy instruction and, if necessary, the counseling and mental-health services they need to move into the mainstream workforce. George R. Roberts

Government Training Employees Pay Recidivism Earn Rates Counseling Crucial Mainstream Instruction Also Reducing Wages Move Dependence Literacy Taxes Workforce Skills Receive Services Necessary Assistance Need

The greatest preventative to terrorism is Muslim religious literacy. Hamza Yusuf

Terrorism Muslim Religious Greatest Literacy

There's a great lack of financial literacy and understanding in this nation, even among college-educated people. Henry Paulson

Great People Financial Understanding Nation Lack Literacy Even Among

Is it possible that literacy standards are falling because young Australians are growing up in a culture in which they can be entertained and informed, and in which they can communicate effectively, without having to master any but the most rudimentary literacy skills? Hugh Mackay

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My dad played guitar, and he taught me enough to play some Beatles' songs. But primarily, I was a bookworm. I loved reading and still do. My whole family does. It was part of the family culture. Accomplished literacy was a value. K. Flay

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Much like the opportunities that factory work provided for working-class Americans in the last century, microwork will provide opportunities for marginalized people in this one. All they really need is basic literacy, a cheap computer, and an internet hookup. Leila Janah

The best way to get students involved in science and want to follow either science careers or incorporate it in their lives or to achieve science literacy is to expose them to the various jobs in STEM. It's broad from biologists to electricians to nanotechnologists to building fusion engines. It's a wide range of things. Mae Jemison

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Not only is writing more important than ever, but visual literacy is vital. We don't teach enough design, art, visual things. We have to recognize what we're seeing. It matters if you send someone a cluttered design. It matters more than ever. Marissa Moss

Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy. Marshall McLuhan

Schizophrenia May Literacy Necessary Consequence

The novel has always been a contradictory form. Here is a long form narrative mainly read originally by consumers who were only newly literate or limited in their literacy. The novel ranked below poetry, essay and history in prestige for a long time. Matthew Pearl

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And I also serve on a caucus that addresses financial literacy for young people in this country. And it is so hypocritical that we want to talk to these kids about how to better manage their money when we are not doing a good job with our Nation's resources. Melissa Bean

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More and more, job listings are exclusively available online and as technology evolves nearly every occupation now requires a basic level of digital literacy with web navigation, email access and participation in social media. Michael K. Powell

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The Orthodox believe in Jewish literacy, and most of the rest of us couldn't care less. Rabbis and other creatures have a monopoly on Judaism. This is a turnoff in a world that is increasingly secular and that has turned away from religion. Jews are simply turning away from Judaism. Michael Steinhardt

The center line of science literacy - which not many people tell you, but I feel this strongly, and I will go to my grave making this point - is how you think. Neil deGrasse Tyson

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What are we going to do as automation increases, as computers get more sophisticated? One thing that people say is we'll retrain people, right? We'll take coal miners and turn them into data miners. Of course, we do need to retrain people technically. We need to increase technical literacy, but that's not going to work for everybody. Oren Etzioni

Work People Technically Automation Increase Increases Everybody Say Miners One Thing People Say Data More Take Computers Sophisticated Course Get Going Literacy Them Turn Coal Technical Right Thing Need

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