New Brunswick headlines
Frontier College celebrates National Volunteer Week April 18-24
Posted: April 19, 2010 | 
For 111 years, Frontier College has relied on the power of volunteers to deliver its literacy programs across Canada. As Canada's original literacy organization, Frontier College has been recruiting volunteers to work with Canadian children, youth and adults from coast to coast since 1899.
SOUL seeking N.B. adult learners to participate in workshop May 15-16
Posted: April 19, 2010 |
Fredericton – The Literacy Coalition of New Brunswick would like to invite tutors, teachers and practitioners in the province to nominate adult learners who are currently attending programs for the SOUL Speakers Bureau.
CMEC: New report looks at significance of student transitions, mobility in education (PDF)
Posted: April 12, 2010 |
CCL releases report: State of Learning in Canada: A Year in Review
Posted: March 31, 2010 |
The 2009–2010 State of Learning in Canada: A Year in Review report provides the most up-to-date information available on Canada’s learning landscape, and in the process helps contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of how Canadians are faring as lifelong learners.
Former PM Paul Martin helps launch learning program for First Nations youth in N.B.
Posted: March 30, 2010 |
REXTON - Alarmed by consistently high drop-out rates among First Nations youth, former prime minister Paul Martin and Premier Shawn Graham announced a new program Monday to keep First Nations teens in school.
Workplace Essential Skills (WES) centre of excellence opens in Saint John
Posted: March 30, 2010 |
SAINT JOHN (CNB) - A program improving adult literacy and promoting continuing learning in the workplace is being expanded with the opening of a new centre of excellence in Saint John. The program is known as Workplace Essential Skills (WES).
Letting students choose books could make them better readers
Posted: March 29, 2010 |
When she first started teaching high school English 15 years ago, Tina Gordon enthusiastically assigned her students To Kill a Mockingbird, making all of Calpurnia's dishes so they could experience the classic's Southern setting.
ABC Life Literacy Canada has ideas to help you sharpen your literacy skills this spring
Posted: March 25, 2010 |
Spring is officially here – and what better time to improve your literacy skills! Here are some fun ideas to help you sharpen your literacy skills this season:
University of Regina signs agreement to guide future of First Nations University of Canada
Posted: March 24, 2010 |
A Memorandum of Understanding has been signed by the First Nations University of Canada (FNUniv), the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations, the University of Regina and the Saskatchewan government, to support the continued operations of the First Nations University of Canada.
Government of Canada supports research, innovation in new learning management tools
Posted: March 23, 2010 |
Senator Fabian Manning, on behalf of the Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State (Science and Technology), today announced a contribution of $474,000 to Bluedrop Performance Learning from the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP).
New book calls for improvements in teaching quality in post-secondary education
Posted: March 22, 2010 |
TORONTO, March 22 /CNW/ - A new book released today argues that postsecondary institutions need to enhance faculty teaching practices in order to improve student learning outcomes.
Taking the mystery out of homophones
Posted: March 22, 2010 |
Patricia Grimshaw-Byrne, a retired special education teacher and literacy tutor from central Ontario, has published a unique dictionary designed to be useful to both educators and students.
The Grimshaw Dictionary of Homophones is a 165-page resource compiled specifically to identify and describe over 1,000 pairs or groups of what the author calls “the often tricky homophones” in the English language.
What is a homophone, you might ask.
Literacy advocates, supporters join adult learners at Moncton Literacy Road Show
Posted: March 18, 2010 |
Speaker after speaker after speaker, the story was the same -- how adult learning programs and unwavering encouragement changed lives, helped rewrite the future for so many New Brunswickers without a high school education.
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