One week may be somewhat optimistic

The most statistically accurate and thorough study of English functional illiteracy ever commissioned by the U.S. government was a five-year, $14 million study involving lengthy interviews of 26,049 U.S. adults. The interviewees were statistically balanced for age, gender, ethnicity, and location (urban, suburban, or rural in a dozen states and several prisons across the U.S.) to represent the entire U.S. population. This study, titled Adult Literacy in America, proves (1) that 48.7% of U.S. adults (over 93 million of them) are functionally illiterate (i.e. they read and write so poorly that they cannot hold an above-poverty-level-wage job), proves (2) that 15.2% of U.S. adults are in poverty (many of the 48.7% in low-paying jobs have another employed adult in the household and receive financial assistance from governments, family, friends, and charities), and proves (3) that they are more than twice as likely to be in poverty because of functional illiteracy as for all other reasons combined.but didn't understand. Dr. Al Riyami is a citizen of Oman who grew up in Egypt. Education was considered to be important in his family. While his parents' work required them to live in areas where educational choices were limited, the family decided that he would live instead with his grandparents who could provide access to much better schools.After finishing his secondary education, Dr. Al Riyami's parents retired to Oman and the family was reunited there. Pleased to be in Oman, he chose Sultan Qaboos University (S.Q.U.) there for his college work, desiring to learn skills that would be of help to his country. He didn't know what would follow his college studies but acted in the firm conviction that "only education would give me the opportunity to find my interests and enrich my soul." The college studies led him to earn a Bachelor of Science degree in agriculture from S.Q.U.Dr. Al Riyami had long yearned for a career in business management, but S.Q.U. at the time did not offer that curriculum so he had to find a different route into business.