National Adult Literacy Database

Welcome to Ningwakwe Learning Press – publisher of Canadian Aboriginal – First Nation, Inuit and Metis – literacy resources.

Community Literacy of Ontario (CLO) is a provincial literacy network of just over 100 community literacy agencies across Ontario. We are very pleased to present our newest resource: Capacity Plus: Organizational Capacity Resource Guide for Ontario’s Community Literacy Agencies.

OTTAWA, Aug. 12 /CNW Telbec/ - Students and teachers say that a tariff being proposed by Access Copyright - an organisation that licenses literary works to businesses and public institutions - would infringe privacy rights and burden students with tens of millions of dollars in new fees each year.

WINNIPEG, August 4, 2010 – Canada’s Premiers today announced the recipients of the sixth annual Council of the Federation Literacy Award. Presented in each province and territory, the award celebrates outstanding achievement, innovative practice and excellence in literacy.

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Organizers of the recent Cultivating Connections Conference held in Edmonton, Alberta, are pleased with the quality of discussion that took place as well as the breadth of perspectives on family literacy that were shared.

What it means to be literate in the 21st century is about much more than just reading and writing — it is about how we communicate in society and how we prepare for a changing world. This is the message being delivered by the Ontario Literacy Coalition as it prepares for its Spotlight on Learning: Becoming Agents of Change conference set for October 18-20, 2010. The conference is a Canada-East initiative to help Canadians prepare for these changes.

OTTAWA, July 21 /CNW Telbec/ - Dismissed by generations of parents and educators for being "sub-literate" comic books and graphic novels may hold the key to promoting prose literacy in young boys - who have traditionally lagged behind girls in reading - says the Canadian Council on Learning (CCL).

EDMONTON, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - July 15, 2010) - Improving Canadians' literacy and essential skills will play an important role in developing Canada's workforce and building the country's economy. That was the message Mr. Ed Komarnicki, Parliamentary Secretary to the Honourable Diane Finley, Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development, delivered on behalf of Minister Finley at the opening of a national family literacy conference earlier today.

What began as a groundbreaking initiative more than four decades ago by Northrop Frye, one of the greatest literary theorists of the 20th century, is set to become the latest casualty of campus cost-cutting.

EDMONTON, July 12 /CNW Telbec/ - Nine out of ten Canadians favour increased funding for their province's or territory's public elementary and secondary schools, according to a national poll conducted on behalf of the Canadian Teachers' Federation (CTF). Results of the biennial National Issues in Education Poll were released today by CTF President Mary-Lou Donnelly at the Federation's President's Forum: The Funding of Public Education: Great Promise, being held today and tomorrow in Edmonton.

July 7, 2010 (Ottawa) – Canada's leading digital literacy organization, Media Awareness Network (MNet), is sounding the alarm that Canada will continue to trail other countries in productivity and innovation unless a national plan for digital literacy is put in place.

On a muggy late-spring afternoon, with the smell of an approaching thunderstorm thick in the air, Margaret Norrie Mc- Cain settles into an armchair and, like the true Maritimer she is, meanders into the story.

FREDERICTON - A new report on financial literacy shows a growing number of Canadians are saving too little, taking on too much debt and not preparing properly for retirement.

THUNDER BAY, ON, June 28 /CNW/ - Today, over 100 youth counselors were welcomed by the Honourable David C. Onley, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario and Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) Grand Chief, Stan Beardy, as they begin orientation for the Lieutenant Governor's Aboriginal Summer Reading Camp program. The camps, managed by Frontier College, will run this summer in an effort to help improve literacy skills among youth in NAN communities.