Literacy: Spanning the U.S.
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Rowan
County Literacy Council recognizes top tutors
Salisbury Post: 7.24.2017
Seven
Rowan County Literacy Council volunteer
tutors have logged more than 50 instructional hours since the beginning of the
year.
“RCLC
has an amazing group of volunteer tutors who are all so dedicated to their
students’ success,” said program coordinator Laurel Harry.
“Within
this group, we have seven exceptional tutors who have logged over 50 hours of
one-on-one classroom time since the beginning of the year,” she said.
The
seven are Gary Rash, Jennifer Welch, Anne Saunders, Don Doering, Ray Costello,
Char Molrine and Irene Stewart.
Rash
and Molrine have been the longest-serving tutors in the group having
volunteered for over a decade each. Costello is the newest member of the group,
having joined the council less than a year ago.
All
of the tutors work with more than one student, and some meet their students
several times per week.
“Our
tutors really connect with their students,” said Harry. “They become friends,
mentors, sounding boards, and motivational coaches all at once. READ MORE @
Hard
work, dedication recognized at GED graduation
Hastings Tribune: 7.26.2017 by Tony Herrman
“Nothing
worth having was ever achieved without effort.”
Julia
Sarmiento, who used that quote from Theodore Roosevelt in her speech during the
General Educational Development commencement ceremony Thursday at the Central
Community College-Hastings campus, said the quote sums up her
journey pursuing her degree through the Hastings
Literacy Program and CCC.
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Sarmiento
was one of seven recent GED graduates to participate in the commencement
ceremony.
The
29-year-old Hastings woman, who is due with her third child next week, had to
take a five-month break from the GED curriculum she began a year ago due to
complications with her pregnancy.
She
credited her husband and GED program staff for helping her through her course
work, which she completed the last week of June.
“Now
that I look back at the journey, I’m very grateful because there was always
someone there to help me,” she said.
GED
tests allow anyone over the age of 16 to demonstrate they have acquired a level
of learning comparable to that high school graduates.
The
GED battery includes four separate tests: Mathematical, language arts, social
studies and science.
“Taking
the GED is not an easy task,” Anne Cannon, GED Adult Education Coordinator and
executive director of the Hastings Literacy Program, said in her introduction. READ MORE @
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One in four San Antonio adults is functionally illiterate
KENS5:
7.27.2017 by Priya Sridhar
According
to the latest census, one in four adults in San Antonio reads at a fifth-grade
level or lower, making them functionally illiterate. Out of the 77 largest
cities in the United States, the Alamo City came in at 73rd when it comes to
literacy.
Forty-nine
year old Chadwick Fletcher reads at a fifth grade level.
"I
felt like I was nothing. I felt so ashamed of myself," he said. "It
was embarrassing because I had to ask people."
Literacy
experts say often times a parent or caregiver's literacy level indicates the
success their child has in school. Fletcher's mom was illiterate. He ended up
dropping out of high school and then became homeless and hooked on drugs. A
year ago, Fletcher decided to clean up his life and went to Each
One Teach One, a San Antonio non-profit aimed at tackling
adult literacy. WATCH
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