National Adult Literacy Database

Each week as we discuss the struggles associated with reading, I am reminded of the fact that a struggling reader affects everyone in the family and beyond the family.

Mobile-assisted language learning (MALL) and individualized, customizable approaches to speaking a new language are just two of the new directions in language education, according to a new study on global trends in language learning. The study found that authoritative teacher attitudes and language labs, among other things, went out in the 20th century.

Wiki. Don’t you? But have you ever wondered what wiki means? WikiLeaks has been in the news lately because it released a document that encompasses over 91,000 reports covering the war in Afghanistan. Wikileaks is a site that obtains and publishes sensitive material and is designed to protect whistleblowers, journalists, and activists.

Imagine. Imagine not being able to read this sentence. Try not being able to read the directions on a package, a prescription label, or the warning sign on a fence. Imagine not being able to read a story to a child.

By Tom Sticht Today there are shelves of books that call for educators to base their instruction on the relatively new science of the brain. These books based on neuro-imaging of the brain call for brain-based reading instruction, brain-based mathematics instruction, drawing on the right and left brains, and so on.

ScienceDaily (July 20, 2010) — Those ubiquitous wires connecting listeners to you-name-the-sounds from invisible MP3 players -- whether of Bach, Miles Davis or, more likely today, Lady Gaga -- only hint at music's effect on the soul throughout the ages.

(No. 224 - July 16, 2010 - 10 a.m. ET) The Honourable Peter Kent, Minister of State of Foreign Affairs (Americas), joined representatives from national Aboriginal organizations and the federal government earlier this week to congratulate the winners of the national Aboriginal Essay Competition 2010.

Need suggestions for beach reading or books to bring to camp? We've hand-picked some favorite new titles, all published within the last year, that are ideal for the season.

LONDON (AFP) — Newspapers worldwide are being forced to reinvent themselves for the Internet age -- and will be watching closely the success of two experiments launched in London, analysts say.

What began as a groundbreaking initiative more than four decades ago by Northrop Frye, one of the greatest literary theorists of the 20th century, is set to become the latest casualty of campus cost-cutting.

EDMONTON, July 12 /CNW Telbec/ - Nine out of ten Canadians favour increased funding for their province's or territory's public elementary and secondary schools, according to a national poll conducted on behalf of the Canadian Teachers' Federation (CTF). Results of the biennial National Issues in Education Poll were released today by CTF President Mary-Lou Donnelly at the Federation's President's Forum: The Funding of Public Education: Great Promise, being held today and tomorrow in Edmonton.

July 7, 2010 (Ottawa) – Canada's leading digital literacy organization, Media Awareness Network (MNet), is sounding the alarm that Canada will continue to trail other countries in productivity and innovation unless a national plan for digital literacy is put in place.

TORONTO - Children who spend many hours a day glued to the TV or playing computer video games may be harming their ability to concentrate and focus on tasks in school, researchers suggest.

The United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, will host an online discussion on the linkages between women’s and girls’ access to and participation in formal and non-formal education and training, and their equal access to full employment and decent work. The online discussion will take place from July 7 to 20 in both English and French.

FREDERICTON - A new report on financial literacy shows a growing number of Canadians are saving too little, taking on too much debt and not preparing properly for retirement.