National Adult Literacy Database

This Halloween, ABC Life Literacy Canada reminds families to practice literacy skills with some fun literacy tips, tricks and treats.

OTTAWA, Sept. 29 /CNW/ - The Belinda Stronach Foundation today announced it will distribute up to 5,000 laptops to children aged six to twelve in Aboriginal communities across Canada. With support from Vale, BMO Financial Group and the Government of Ontario, the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Canada program leverages leading-edge technology combined with culturally relevant programming to deliver a unique platform of learning tools to Aboriginal children.

The month of October is Canadian Library Month across the country with this year’s theme “Your Library: Your World: Opening Doors to the Future” emphasizing the ability of libraries to introduce new ideas, new stories, and new ways into the world around us through both traditional and emerging technologies.

The Basic Skills Resource Collection focuses on reading; writing; mathematics and numeracy; and health literacy resources that can improve instruction in basic skills.

Well, it has taken us a while, but we’re delighted to announce that we have redesigned and updated our website.

Portfolio development that incorporates the 9 Essential Skills has become a major resource throughout Manitoba for Aboriginal communities with a vision of education, training and employment.

WINNIPEG, September 24, 2010 — Ministers of education concluded the 98th meeting of their long-standing intergovernmental body, the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada (CMEC), recently in Winnipeg.

TORONTO – September 28, 2010 – ABC Life Literacy Canada, in partnership with Grass Roots Press, and with support from Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, today launched the first six (of 12) titles in the innovative Good Reads series for adult literacy learners. “Being able to connect adult learners to bestselling Canadian authors is an incredibly powerful experience for all involved,” said Margaret Eaton, President of ABC Life Literacy Canada.

HIPPY-Québec is a non-profit organization founded in 2009 to support the development of the HIPPY (Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters) program in the Greater Montréal region.

As students in Canada’s post-secondary institutions settle into the new academic year, a new report from the Canadian Council on Learning (CCL) shows that many of them are taking on higher debt-loads than in the past.

ABC Life Literacy Canada is pleased to proclaim September 23 as the inaugural Essential Skills Day.

News from the literacy and essential skills field is posted daily to NALD and NALD@Work. If you see news happening in your area or come across an interesting story online, let us know by emailing contactnald@nald.ca.

As recently as 2008, one in five Canadian teens were not pursuing a formal education — a figure that falls below the average of other developed countries, a new Statistics Canada report suggests.

In conversation this week, Linda Shohet, executive director of the Centre for literacy, explained the various measurable degrees to which people are literate or – in too many cases – not literate enough to handle the complexities of modern life.

In 2006, the majority of women with a university education were married to men who also had a university education. However, this tendency has decreased slightly over the last quarter-century. The pattern is similar for women in common-law unions.