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The unveiling of a new award promoting literacy innovation was among the highlights of Life Literacy Night, ABC Life Literacy Canada’s annual awards ceremony, held at Toronto’s Gardiner Museum recently.

Regardless of how qualified you may be for the position, your chance at an interview will likely be missed if the scanning technology or human eye does not see keywords that tell them you are relevant for the job.

Since Raise-A-Reader was launched nationally in 2002, the fundraising and awareness initiative has raised more than $17 million for literacy programs. On September 28, 27 Postmedia newspapers participated from coast-to-coast to raise money for programs in their own communities.

There are many persons with disabilities all over the world who have excelled in their professions thereby proving correct the saying that disability is not inability.

Teachers across Canada will join more than 30 million of their colleagues around the globe marking World Teachers' Day on October 5. The national theme for this year's celebration is "Teachers: Inspiring students, awakening potential."

TVOParents.com's content is organized around three key areas that are fundamental to children's success in school and life: School and Learning; Health and Development; Social and Emotional. Themed pages are designed to easily pull and display content from across the site that is related to any one issue or topic.

The guide, which will be used in high-school entrepreneurship classes, is based on the Ontario senior business studies curriculum. But from the images of smiling young Aboriginal faces on the cover, to the case studies, to the easy-to-carry-long-distances soft cover, every aspect of the book was approached with one aim in mind: to show native students that business is a subject that applies to them.

A study, titled Math Instruction that Makes Sense, produced by the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, is said to demonstrate conclusively that "traditional math education methods are superior to the highly ineffective, discovery-based instructional techniques that are in vogue now in educational curricula."

This study was conducted by UBC to generate evidence-based knowledge about the relationship between community development and literacy in order to inform strategic planning, policy development, and innovative action within the partner organizations.

All the data of the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) Documentation Centre and Library’s 30,000 online catalogue entries have been transferred during the last 12 months to UNESDOC, UNESCO’s online catalogue. Users can now either search for UIL holdings in UNESDOC – or widen their search to all UNESCO library holdings.

Those who work physically apart from colleagues can suffer a sense of isolation, according to Pennsylvania’s Wharton University management department, where professors are studying work/life integration.

The Government of Yukon is investing in a new apprenticeship program at the Individual Learning Centre which will provide opportunities for youth working to complete their high school education.

In the traditional culture of the Aboriginal people who live in Treaty 3, education means learning for life and their leaders are teaching that lesson to the nation. A national panel on First Nations education has eight stops in Canada as it prepares its report for the Assembly of First Nations and the Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development.

Financial Literacy Week is a national awareness and engagement campaign that seeks to increase the financial literacy and math skills of Canadians through access to tools, resources and community events.

A lack of common sense can lead to angry investors, mistreated customers and bad decisions, says Michael Feuer, co-founder and former chief executive of OfficeMax. In this article he offers five essential tips on using common sense in the workplace.