National Adult Literacy Database

Every month, there are reports of students suspended and teachers disciplined for behaving badly online. As a result, Canadian regulatory bodies are stepping in.

In anticipation of the May 2 federal election, Canada’s national literacy organizations got together and asked each of the major parties to provide their plan on how they would address the needs of individual Canadians to improve their literacy and essential skills.

Grass Roots Press of Edmonton, Alberta, has been publishing and distributing adult literacy materials to individuals and organizations across North America since 1997. The company was founded on the belief that the best resources are those developed by literacy educators.

For its 12th edition, The Gift of Reading® is giving 30,512 new books to as many underprivileged children aged 0-12. The Literacy Foundation and project spokesperson, actress Marie Turgeon, are proud to announce that this initiative, which aims to prevent reading difficulties that lead to children dropping out of school and then to illiteracy, has been an unqualified success. Since 1999, more than 255,000 new children’s books have been given out through this program.

Organized by the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Congress brings together thousands of scholars, students, practitioners and policy makers in a different city each year to share ideas, discuss today’s complex issues and enrich their research.

A good reader? Thank your genes. Math more your thing? Thank your home life and/or your school. This may be a simplification, but it’s the thrust of a new study from Case Western Reserve University, Ohio State University and elsewhere.

Twice weekly telecommuting could save Canadian companies, employees and the community over $53 billion a year, according to the country's first major national white paper on telework.

Social bookmarking tools let users save their bookmarks and share them publicly. They also allow communities of users to look at websites and keep track of the ones they think are valuable. Some of these users are interested in adult basic education and literacy.

As part of its Strategic Plan, Frontier College has announced it “will reach more learners by 2014 through bold leadership. We will achieve this by expanding our network of supporters and by demonstrating value and performance.”

Elections Canada understands the importance of giving all Canadians equal opportunity to exercise their right to vote. That is why they have created a web section with information written in plain language. The site provides voters with important information regarding how to vote and voting eligibility.

Women are more likely to quit engineering jobs because of an uncomfortable work environment than for family reasons, according to a new University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee study.

Dawn Arnold, volunteer organizer, says it is fitting the bilingual festival is set in Moncton, because New Brunswickers are born storytellers. She said the festival strives to improve literacy among New Brunswick children, which in turn should benefit N.B. society, the economy and its way of life.

The International Association of Administrative Professionals has some tips for those people whose paperwork tends to multiply like rabbits in a spring garden.

Cash-strapped students have a number of ways they can reduce their taxes now, as well as in the future, says CIBC’s tax and estate planning expert Jamie Golombek, in the third of a series of tax tips this month.

ABC Life Literacy Canada is actively involved in social media as a way to engage and interact with its internal and external stakeholders, sponsors, donors and the community-at-large. With that in mind, it has recently produced Social Media Guidelines, a document which includes helpful tips and suggestions.