National Adult Literacy Database

Homework shouldn't be about rote learning. The best kind deepens student understanding and builds essential skills.

Community Literacy of Ontario (CLO) is a network of more than 100 community-based Literacy and Basic Skills (LBS) agencies located in communities, both large and small, across that province.

On Wednesday, October 6, 2010, the Toronto skyline will turn orange in honour of the life literacy cause and to commemorate ABC Life Literacy Canada’s 20th anniversary. Orange is ABC Life Literacy Canada’s official colour.

Raise-a-Reader, a year-round initiative that raises funds for family literacy programs across Canada, has raised $15-million since its national launch in 2002. The program has also helped educate Canadians about literacy issues and how improved literacy levels have a positive impact on our country's economy and social wellbeing.

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.

The project team for Measures of Success: Workplace Literacy and Essential Skills is seeking field researchers to undertake research activities at sites in Nova Scotia and Manitoba. Each province will require at least one full-time field researcher (or alternatively two half-time researchers), with additional part-time researchers to be hired as necessary.

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.

Frontier College welcomes donations of books and other reading materials to the Frontier College Free Books Program.

OTTAWA, Sept. 20 /CNW Telbec/ - Several First Nations of Quebec under the leadership of their Chiefs are taking part in the National Week of Action on Education to denounce the shocking attitude of the federal government regarding the education of First Nations.

Influential rankings put nine schools in top 200, with University of Toronto edging out McGill for the top spot in Canada.

Several Nova Scotians were honoured with literacy awards at the province's 20th annual International Literacy Day celebrations. Premier Darrell Dexter and Labour and Workforce Development Minister Marilyn More attended a celebration in Halifax today, Sept. 8, honouring adult learners, and the literacy organizations and volunteers who support them.

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.

(Toronto, ON – September 8, 2010) – In honour of the 20th anniversary being celebrated today, ABC Life Literacy Canada is pleased to offer 20 literacy tips that anyone can use in various aspects of their life.

FREDERICTON, NB – September 8, 2010 – The National Adult Literacy Database (NALD) has chosen International Literacy Day to launch its newly designed website. In addition to a new, bold layout and a 30 per cent wider page, NALD has changed its interface to reflect a state-of-the-art content management system that will allow NALD to better meet the needs of the literacy and essential skills community across Canada.