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.

Since Raise-A-Reader was launched nationally in 2002, the fundraising and awareness initiative has raised more than $17 million for literacy programs. On September 28, 27 Postmedia newspapers participated from coast-to-coast to raise money for programs in their own communities.

Young brains soak up the information around them like tiny, too-cute sponges. That's the reason, put simply, why it is important to get children interested in reading in the early years of life.

Michael Moore kept the seriousness of his reading problem hidden for years but now the Winnipeg Transit driver is getting national attention for starting a new chapter of his life. Moore is one of 14 recipients this year of the prestigious Council of the Federation Literacy Award.

Financial Literacy Week is a national awareness and engagement campaign that seeks to increase the financial literacy and math skills of Canadians through access to tools, resources and community events.

Free Essential Skills Day tools and resources are now available for download. Access posters, brochures, web banners, fact sheets and case studies to help you make the most of Essential Skills Day (September 23) and raise awareness of the importance of workplace education.

A majority of Canadian employees are living paycheque to paycheque and report they would be in financial difficulty if their pay were delayed by even a week, according to a new survey on the financial health of the country’s workers.

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.

“This Labour Day, workers must not only celebrate previous achievements, but set our sights on an agenda for progress to bring about the more just, fair and caring society that so many of us crave.”