National Adult Literacy Database

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The next World Congress will be July 12-15, 2010, in Auckland, New Zealand, where this storied gem in the Pacific is certain to energize and inspire. The theme for the conference will be “Leading & Learning in Literacy.” Additional details will be posted as they are available.

The Spring Newsletter will be mailed to current members in early May. We'd like your input:

Yellowknife (March 31, 2010) – The NWT Literacy Council has formally joined the call for an NWT Poverty Reduction Strategy, calling attention to the link between low literacy skills, poverty and employment prospects.

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.

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).

One in six adults has lower literacy than the level expected of an 11-year-old, new research shows today.

A winner has been chosen in CBC Radio One's Canada Reads series, in which a celebrity jury votes for a single book it can recommend to all Canadians.

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:

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).

Further education colleges in England face 16% cuts to adult learning classes over the next academic year, it was claimed today, triggering fears that scores of courses will close.

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.

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.