National Adult Literacy Database

Reporting to the director of development, the development officer will be responsible for building and maintaining funding relationships with Foundation & Corporate Partnerships and including community groups and service clubs to support Frontier College’s literacy programs across Canada. Applications must be submitted by February 10.

Young Inuit children are growing up with fast-evolving technology but some parents fear their traditional language skills just can't keep up. That's what inspired one Iqaluit father to create educational software for children in the Inuit language.

For Liam St. John and teens like him all across Ottawa, spoken word poetry is helping them find their voice and express how they feel about difficult things they face in their lives or the world around them. The weekly sessions are also teaching them some literary devices and performance techniques, and giving them each a chance to perform something they’ve written.

The new year is here and with it come promises of change – eating healthier foods, going to the gym, getting a new job. But beyond the traditional resolutions, improving your literacy skills can help you make the ultimate change.

The intent of the new law is to deter the most damaging and deceptive forms of spam from occurring in Canada. Spam includes more than unsolicited commercial messages. It has become the vehicle for a wide range of threats to online commerce affecting individuals, businesses and network providers.

Aboriginal youth are the fastest-growing segment of the Canadian population. There are almost half a million Aboriginal people under the age of 20, yet their university attainment is just one-third the national average. The education gap in this country is large and growing, a trend that must be reversed.

Why do we as English Canadians speak the way we do? How do people abroad distinguish us from our American cousins and what is a Canadian anyway? Sarah Elaine Eaton looks at these issues in her paper: Canadian English: Not Just a Hybrid of British and American English.

A professor at the University of New Brunswick has been named one of the top 10 Canadian news makers in education technology for 2011 by one of the country's leading consulting firms. Steve Pierce, director of the Atlantic Centre for Educational Administration and Leadership with the university's faculty of education, joined the likes of David Suzuki, the British Columbia Premier's Council and digital media company Bitstrips Inc. on Mindshare Learning's second annual list.

A descendant of Irish immigrants, Paul Martin points to himself and other non-aboriginals. "Our ancestors were not treated very well," said Martin, adding that later generations were successful thanks to strong schooling.

Participate in the Family Literacy Day Colouring Contest from now until January 31, 2012, for a chance to win one of 13 Family Literacy Day Raise-a-Reader prize packs! If you haven’t already planned your Family Literacy Day activity for this year, this is a great option for everyone to enjoy on January 27.

Our faces communicate a huge range of information, and most people are processing that data without really being aware of it. But for people with autism spectrum disorders, those messages can be difficult to read. And if you don’t “speak” the language, chances are you don’t send the right messages back. This impairment may explain the social dysfunction often associated with autism.

The Rural Alberta Development Fund Board of Directors has approved $3.2 million in funding supporting a collaborative delivery model aimed at increasing access to quality learning for rural learners. Led by NorQuest College, the project will identify the learning needs of adult learners within NorQuest’s stewardship region to better prepare them for post-secondary education and/or employment opportunities in their communities.

Literacy Partners of Manitoba is pleased to have the opportunity to work and partner with Aboriginal people and organizations to improve Aboriginal literacy in communities. The shared vision and strategies identified at the 2011 Aboriginal Literacy Symposium are key to improving Aboriginal literacy in Manitoba and will provide a framework for moving forward with this important work.

Scientists claim that the hyperlinked, text-messaging screen shapes the mind quite differently from the book. “It pulls attention with such rapidity it doesn’t allow the kind of deep, focused attention that reading a book 10 years ago invited,” says Maryanne Wolf, director of the Center for Reading and Language Research at Tufts University in Massachusetts. “It invites constant change of attention, it invites multitasking. It invites, in other words, a kind of triage of attention.”

Four Canadian book publishers will continue offering a rich selection of Canadian-authored books to readers everywhere, in both digital and print formats, thanks to an investment from the Government of Canada.