National Adult Literacy Database

PHILADELPHIA — Jeff Deck and Benjamin Herson, two word nerds and earnest agents of TEAL — the Typo Eradication Advancement League — visited Philadelphia last week, and within 90 minutes Center City was the better for it, orthographically speaking.

Don Tapscott is better known as a business and technology expert but at the University of Alberta in the 1970s he studied education. He combined his expertise authoring the books Growing up Digital (1997) and Grown up Digital (2009).

Imagine having a few minutes before the train leaves. What to do? Browse through a magazine at the newsstand or grab a quick ice cream cone?

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

12 August 2010 – The International Year of Youth kicked off today with calls from United Nations officials to harness the talents and energy of the world’s young people to promote better understanding and dialogue between different generations, cultures and religions.

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.

Xenolexica is defined as "a grave confusion when faced with unusual words." Are you gravely confused? It's okay — the word was even rejected from the dictionary.

KNOXVILLE — To children, the summer slide means water, garden hoses and slippery plastic sheets. To teachers, the “summer slide” is the noted decrease in reading skills after a vacation without books.

NEWLY qualified teachers have a lack of literacy skills, demonstrate poor spoken grammar and struggle with basic numeracy tasks, ­according to head teachers.

What do the following careers have in common: conservation officer, wildlife officer, environmental consultant, forestry officer and environmental protection officer?

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.

Starting the school day just 30 minutes later in the morning might help teenagers be more productive and decrease the chances of them oversleeping on weekends, according to a group of sleep scientists. Sleep specialist Dr. Judith Owens and her colleagues studied the results of delaying the start of the day to 8:30 a.m., from 8 a. m at school in Newport, R.I. The 201 students in Grades 9 through 12 also completed online surveys before and after the switch.

Ottawa, June 29, 2010 - As a signal of their commitment to attracting the best and brightest students to Canada, the presidents of five key national education associations signed a Memorandum of Understanding today establishing the Canadian Consortium for International Education Marketing.

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.

The Library of Congress has chosen Curious George, the children’s book character, to star in its new public service advertising campaign.