National Adult Literacy Database

Avoiding chronic stress using healthy diversions can help people survive multiple role strain. For example, reading a book for pleasure or giving oneself a break by watching a favourite TV program can be rejuvenating in small doses.

To address this issue, CCL recommends the creation of a Council of Ministers on Learning — a federal/provincial/territorial body responsible for coordinating lifelong learning across the country. The report also recommends establishing clear and measurable national goals for each stage of learning as well as independent monitoring to assess Canada’s progress on meeting these goals.

High school graduation rates among First Nations students in Nova Scotia in 2009-10 were over 70 per cent, considerably higher than in other Atlantic provinces and the national average of 35 per cent for First Nation students on reserves, heard the National Panel on Elementary and Secondary Education. The panel was in Atlantic Canada seeking advice and recommendations for its blueprint for action to improve academic success for First Nations children and youth.

This year's theme is Your Library: A Place Unbound, which suggests that, as part of a changing world, libraries are growing and expanding their resources as they connect people to information and reading.

Those who want to save are more apt to keep socking money away and more of it too, if they have just one goal in mind, shows work done in multiple countries by two researchers at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management.

NALD values feedback from the literacy and essential skills community so we are asking you to please complete a short online survey. The information you provide will be important in helping us understand more about our current users and what new services we may provide in the future. We have extended our submission deadline and would appreciate your responses by October 11, 2011, if possible. Thank you.

The Canadian Literacy and Learning Network (CLLN) requires a field development officer. The deadline for applications is October 7, 2011.

Teachers across Canada will join more than 30 million of their colleagues around the globe marking World Teachers' Day on October 5. The national theme for this year's celebration is "Teachers: Inspiring students, awakening potential."

TVOParents.com's content is organized around three key areas that are fundamental to children's success in school and life: School and Learning; Health and Development; Social and Emotional. Themed pages are designed to easily pull and display content from across the site that is related to any one issue or topic.

A study, titled Math Instruction that Makes Sense, produced by the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, is said to demonstrate conclusively that "traditional math education methods are superior to the highly ineffective, discovery-based instructional techniques that are in vogue now in educational curricula."

In the traditional culture of the Aboriginal people who live in Treaty 3, education means learning for life and their leaders are teaching that lesson to the nation. A national panel on First Nations education has eight stops in Canada as it prepares its report for the Assembly of First Nations and the Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development.

As young children head off to school for the first time meeting new friends in their pre-school and kindergarten classes, ABC Life Literacy Canada is delighted to be working with Energizer Canada in the promotion of their new program, The Power of Reading, launched during Life Literacy Month, September 2011.

The National Adult Literacy Database (NALD) has integrated the content of its former NALD@Work website into the main NALD site. Users now have the option of viewing all content or choosing to view only literacy information or essential skills content.

Starting this September, all students in grades 7 to 10 will have access to Ontario’s free online math tutoring program. This expansion will give over 600,000 students access to Homework Help, a free, real-time math tutoring service that connects certified Ontario teachers with students who are looking for extra support.

September is all about back-to-school – time to get back into routines, make lunches and go to bed early. And since there’s so much to do and children are still in summer mode, it’s hard to make sure the family is focusing on learning.