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    A literacy test assesses a person's literacy skills: their ability to read and write. Literacy tests have been administered by various governments, particularly...
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    Adult literacy in the United States is assessed through national and international studies conducted by various government agencies and private research...
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  • Secondary School Literacy Test (OSSLT; French: test provincial de compétences linguistiques or TPCL) is a compulsory standardized test for secondary school...
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    Literacy is the ability to read and write. Some researchers suggest that the study of "literacy" as a concept can be divided into two periods: the period...
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    registration that required voters to pay poll taxes and pass a literacy test. The literacy test was subjectively applied by white administrators, and the two...
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  • AI literacy or artificial intelligence literacy, is the ability to understand, use, monitor, and critically reflect on AI applications. The term usually...
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    various voting restrictions, including literacy tests, poll taxes, property-ownership requirements, moral character tests, requirements that voter registration...
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  • disfranchise African-American and poor white voters through poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clauses and other restrictions, applied in a discriminatory...
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    Literacy in India is a key for social-economic progress. The 2011 census, indicated a 2001–2011 literacy growth of 9.2%, which is slower than the growth...
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    Cleveland vetoed that bill in 1897. President William Taft also vetoed a literacy test in 1913. Again in 1915, President Woodrow Wilson vetoed such a bill...
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    is tested and validated: Effectively taking decisions about money management and ability to make informed decisions is called financial literacy. To...
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  • The Test of Economic Literacy or TEL is a standardized test of economics nationally norm-referenced in the United States for use in upper-grade levels...
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  • adult literacy rate, defined as literacy in those aged 15 and above, was measured at 97% in 2020 by the World Bank. Youth literacy, defined as literacy in...
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    literacy test for ages 16 and above. The literacy test required one to have basic reading comprehension in any language. The modern day literacy test...
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    a more lenient literacy test. In 1970, the Alaska Legislature ratified a constitutional amendment against state voter literacy tests. The Voting Rights...
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    voters and many Poor Whites being disenfranchised by poll taxes and literacy tests, among other barriers to voting, from which white male voters were exempted...
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  • Court decision that found certain grandfather clause exemptions to literacy tests for voting rights to be unconstitutional. Though these grandfather clauses...
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  • favorite plan was the literacy test to exclude workers who could not read or write their own foreign language. Congress passed literacy tests, but presidents—responding...
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    poor whites by requirements for payment of a poll tax and passing a literacy test and comprehension of the constitution. Subjective application of the...
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  • 25 (Fall 2009). "Cultural Literacy Tests - Challenge Yourself With Our Free Online Cultural Literacy Tests". The Literacy Company. Archived from the...
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    a United States Act that aimed to restrict immigration by imposing literacy tests on immigrants, creating new categories of inadmissible persons, and...
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    definitions of health literacy, in part because health literacy involves both the context (or setting) in which health literacy demands are made (e.g...
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  • literacy requirement can be met through passing the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test with a score of 75.0% or above. If one fails the Literacy Test...
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    and apply simple numerical concepts; it is the numerical counterpart of literacy. The charity National Numeracy states: "Numeracy means understanding how...
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  • include a passing grade on the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test and on the financial literacy test. 40 hours of volunteer service are also a graduation...
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    constitution of 1895 instituted a poll tax and also required voters to pass a literacy test. These provisions were used to effectively deny the vote to blacks....
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  • number of Southern U.S. states, which created new requirements for literacy tests, payment of poll taxes and residency and property restrictions to register...
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  • statutes that set requirements for voter registration, including poll tax, literacy tests, the grandfather clause, and the requirement that only registered voters...
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  • Northampton County, North Carolina requiring potential voters to pass a literacy test to vote, appealed from the Supreme Court of that state. The opinion...
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  • the 1924 Immigration Act. Nativists and labor unions also argued for literacy tests, arguing that it would stop illiterate immigrants from Southern or Eastern...
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