National Adult Literacy Database

Pick up a pencil and play! That's what famed Canadian author Robert Munsch does.

Students are calling on the federal government and opposition parties to fix C-32 and finally adopt copyright legislation for the digital age.

The number of international students enrolled in Canadian universities increased 10 percent this year: a trend that enriches the learning experience for Canadian students, builds global links for Canada and generates economic activity in communities across the country.

As part of Life Literacy Night held at the iconic CN Tower last night, individuals from government, business and the literacy field gathered to celebrate 20 years of ABC Life Literacy Canada’s efforts in raising awareness of the life literacy cause.

Media Awareness Network (MNet) today released e-Parenting Tutorial: Keeping up with your kids' online activities, an online resource to help parents better understand and become actively involved in their children's online lives.

The Minister of Education, Culture and Employment, Jackson Lafferty, tabled the Northwest Territories Aboriginal Languages Plan – A Shared Responsibility document earlier today in the Legislative Assembly.

Schools could boost students’ performance by simply changing the font used in teaching materials.

The Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA) is deeply concerned about a new paper published by the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO) on promoting more university differentiation. The paper, titled The Benefits of Greater Differentiation of Ontario's University Sector, seeks to outline a model for encouraging a broader variety of missions among the province's universities.

"I am very interested in different narrative threads and this idea that nothing ever completely finishes or ends and all things continue," Robin Brass says.

While several of Ontario's 20 universities are internationally ranked, pressures on the postsecondary system are palpable. Increased enrollment is jeopardizing the range and quality of programs while a changing labour market demands postsecondary credentials.

Undergraduate students are generally supportive of the government taking a more active role in transforming Ontario's universities to better balance the system-wide demands for a high-quality and accessible learning environment with the capacity to undertake research.

Two years after the Prime Minister offered a formal apology to the survivors of Canada’s native residential schools, many Canadians would be shocked to learn the legislation governing education on most reserves remains the Indian Act of 1867.

Scholastic (NASDAQ: SCHL), the global children’s publishing, education and media company, is bringing some of the nation’s most respected education experts to the offices, classrooms and homes of teachers and school leaders this year.

Literacy Alberta is a provincial coalition and a nonprofit organization that works toward increasing the literacy levels in the province.

The use of oracy to promote interest in and the achievement of literacy has a long history. Writing in 1908, Edmund Burke Huey made the point that “meaning inheres in this spoken language and belongs but secondarily to the printed symbols.”