National Adult Literacy Database

UNESCO is celebrating World Book and Copyright Day on 23 April by highlighting the need to preserve creativity from piracy. The Day also marks the launch of celebrations in Ljubljana (Slovenia), World Book Capital for 2010.

Thomas King and Tomson Highway, acclaimed Canadian Aboriginal authors, will address the Cultivating Connections National Family Literacy Conference being presented by the Centre for Family Literacy in Edmonton, Alberta, July 15-17, 2010. Thomas King’s topic is “Stories Do Create a World” and Tomson Highway will speak on “How Literacy Can Make for a Healthy, Functional Family.” Register for banquet tickets to hear Thomas King or for the full conference.

ABC Life Literacy Canada is pleased to announce the launch of Life Literacy Radio this June. This new audio podcast series will feature news items and stories of literacy and life-long learning with a variety of interesting and entertaining guests.

Jahara Drammeh first thought about coming to America while watching the 1988 Eddie Murphy film “Coming to America.” He liked what he saw.

For 111 years, Frontier College has relied on the power of volunteers to deliver its literacy programs across Canada. As Canada's original literacy organization, Frontier College has been recruiting volunteers to work with Canadian children, youth and adults from coast to coast since 1899.

DALA is a user-friendly assessment, specifically designed to assess the literacy skills of very beginning readers. The primary purposes of DALA are to inform instruction and measure progress.

Finally, an online credit course for teachers, teachers in training, and students interested in communications studies and media education. Understanding Media Literacy: Inside Plato’s Cave is a breakthrough online three credit course written, tested and endorsed by teachers and delivered in partnership with Athabasca University.

The Canadian Aboriginal Writing Challenge is fun and easy and there is no charge to enter. Simply create a short story that explores a moment or theme in Aboriginal history. The event selected should be tied to Canada's past and/or your ancestral history. It can date as far back as a traditional legend or as recently as the June 2008 apology for residential schools. We encourage you to be creative in your choice of writing styles.

OTTAWA, March 30 /CNW Telbec/ - Today the Canadian Council on Learning (CCL) will meet with a group of MPs and senators to report on its major findings and conclusions from six years of intensive, quality research.

When she first started teaching high school English 15 years ago, Tina Gordon enthusiastically assigned her students To Kill a Mockingbird, making all of Calpurnia's dishes so they could experience the classic's Southern setting.

STRATFORD, ON, March 29 /CNW/ - The Canada 3.0 2010 forum slated for May 10-11 will set an ambitious target for Canada's digital media industry - that of making it possible for "anyone to do anything on-line in Canada - by 2017".

A Memorandum of Understanding has been signed by the First Nations University of Canada (FNUniv), the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations, the University of Regina and the Saskatchewan government, to support the continued operations of the First Nations University of Canada.

Further education colleges in England face 16% cuts to adult learning classes over the next academic year, it was claimed today, triggering fears that scores of courses will close.

Patricia Grimshaw-Byrne, a retired special education teacher and literacy tutor from central Ontario, has published a unique dictionary designed to be useful to both educators and students. The Grimshaw Dictionary of Homophones is a 165-page resource compiled specifically to identify and describe over 1,000 pairs or groups of what the author calls “the often tricky homophones” in the English language. What is a homophone, you might ask.