National Adult Literacy Database

Tweets and ‘likes’ are becoming more beneficial to business, a new Robert Half Technology survey suggests. More than four in 10 (44 per cent) of chief information officers surveyed said they permit employees to use social media sites like Twitter and Facebook on the job as long as it’s for business purposes.

Many entry-level jobs – particularly ones in exploration such as bush work and mineral sampling – attract students from diverse fields of study, said Gavin Dirom, president and CEO of the Association for Mineral Exploration B.C.

A new report from AlphaPlus suggests that with the help of cloud computing, the future of cyberspace for adult literacy will see a proliferation of new and easily accessible literacy tools such as smartphone applications to help read signs and turn text into voice.

In Renaissance Italy, imitation was widely regarded as a crucial education tool, challenging students to learn by copying elements of a pre-existing work. Today, such an exercise would be condemned as plagiarism.

James Cummins, who holds the Canada Research Chair in Language Learning and Literacy says: “Education is a part of society that gets a lot of money spent on it, so there needs to be support for all kinds of education research, even if it contradicts conventional thinking.”

With a high school dropout rate in some of Canada's low-income communities higher than 70 per cent, Pathways to Education Canada is encouraging valedictorians to use their graduation speeches to help spread the word that all students deserve the support and opportunities needed to graduate.