Literacy:
Spanning the U.S.
LCC
partners with Laredo Public Library for English as a Second Language, GED
classes
KGNS
TV: 1.15.2015 by Matt McGovern
The Laredo
Community College is bringing English as a second language, GED and civics
classes for free to the city of Laredo's
Public Library.
This is
the first partnership with the Laredo Community College and the city of
Laredo's Public Library.
The
college is offering their services at the public library for anyone who would
like to take ESL, civics and-or GED classes.
Sandra
Cortez is the director for the adult education and literacy program department
at the Laredo Community College.
She says
the program will work as a stepping stone moving participants from ESL to GED
and then transitioning into workforce programs.
"The
whole objective of our program is to get people into the workforce make them
self sufficient and be able to have a career if they are able to", said
Cortez. VIDEO !
Literacy
Mid-South looks to recruit 75 additional volunteers
My
Foxal WBRC: 1.16.2015 by Andrew Douglas
There are
more than 100,000 people in Shelby County who can't read. For more than 40
years, Literacy
Mid-South has been trying to change that.
Former
truck driver Charles Rais is spending his retirement years learning how to
read. He spent years keeping his secret of illiteracy by following lines on a
map book.
"I
went to places and found places that the guys who could read couldn't
find," said Rais.
Literacy
Mid-South has 500 people in its free reading program every year, but they need
more volunteers to help.
"We
have about 250 volunteers right now we probably need 75 more this year alone
just to teach people to read just to meet the need," said Kevin Dean. READ
MORE !
For some
adults, Literacy Volunteers of Massachusetts fills a void
Boston
Globe: 1.18,2015 by Taryn Plumb
For the first 50 years of his life, Paulo Ramos simply got by.
He
relied on universal symbols, committed the visual makeup of certain essential
words to memory, and copied by rote letters and numbers that friends assembled
for him.
But even
as the Weymouth resident held down various jobs and eventually went on to run
his own cleaning business, the extent of his literacy was being able to pen his
own signature.
He had
never read a book or newspaper, and had never sat down to write a friend or family
member a letter or e-mail.
“When I
started, I was nothing,” the 54-year-old Cape Verde native said of his first
session with a literacy tutor in Quincy four years ago. “I [had] just learned
to sign my name.”
You are
probably reading this story without even thinking about it. You have no need to
sound out the vowels and consonants, consult a dictionary, or puzzle over
context.
What you
may not realize is that, reading these words — as simple as it may be for you —
can be a confounding and incapacitating task for many adults in this country.
This is
where the nonprofit Literacy Volunteers of
Massachusetts-Quincy fills a void; for more than a quarter century, the
program based at Thomas Crane
Public Library has enabled hundreds of locals like Ramos to acquire the
reading and writing skills that many of us take for granted. READ
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