literacy是什么意思？

In literacy, they were actually doing better than their peers in other countries.

Nor is the global economy forgiving of an American workforce with increasingly weak literacy, math and science abilities.

The organizers of the experiment concluded that far fewer students were achieving at high levels on critical thinking than they were doing for written communication or quantitative literacy.

The results of a recent experiment showed that professors can use standardized metrics to measure how well students do in three key areas: critical thinking, written communication, and quantitative literacy.