Literacy: Spanning the U.S.
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News Eagle:
6.22.2017
The
Wayne
Pike Adult Literacy (WPALP) 30th Anniversary Dinner was a
huge success, reported Gary D. Linton, Executive Director.
The
event was held at Silver Birches in Tafton on June 15th and was well attended
by tutors, students, elected officials, family members and supporters. Honors
were given for Student of the Year, Most Improved Student of the Year, A
Senatorial Citation to WPALP, Tutor Hour and Years of Service awards to our
Tutors.
Award
recipients for 2017 are as follows:
Victoria
Smith, Tutor of the Year Award
Faye
White, GED Tutor of the Year
Annette
Petry, Total Hour Award with 3,250 hours of tutoring over 18 years.
WPALP
is the only surviving literacy program in Northeast Pennsylvania, and serves
all of Wayne and Pike Counties. READ MORE @
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Kalamazoo Community Foundation: 7.12.2017
Rob
Smith believes in walking the walk when it comes to being an example for his
children.
Although
he couldn’t read, Smith made it through school by “showing up and bluffing” and
with “help” from allies who knew he couldn’t read. He always carried a book
with him for appearance sake. When he couldn’t work for a year after being
injured in a car accident, he finally learned to read, advancing from a
fifth-grade to 10th-grade reading level. He’s now a Kalamazoo
Literacy Council board member and president of its Student
Advisory Council.
“Everything
is like new,” he says.
Most
adults take the ability to read for granted. Imagine, however, if you couldn’t.
How would you fill out a job application or determine the right dose of a
medication? How would you respond when children asked you to read to them?
According
to the National Institutes of Health, the most important factor in children’s
academic success is the reading level of their caregivers. Children of parents
with low literacy skills have a 72 percent chance of ending up at the lowest
literacy levels themselves.
Michael
Evans, executive director of KLC, will tell you this is a serious problem here
in Kalamazoo County. Literacy, he says, is the path to addressing the many
challenges — like poverty, health, education and workforce preparation — facing
people in our community who have been marginalized. READ MORE @
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Salisbury Post: 7.17.2017 by K.C. Scott, Ex Dir-Rowan County Literacy
Council
Since
its inception 41 years ago, the Rowan County
Literacy Council has served adults ages 16 and older with
programs such as Adult Basic Education and English as a Second Language. These
programs assist adults in achieving whatever goals they may have: securing
better, high-paying jobs, or perhaps their first job; obtaining a driver’s
license; becoming a U.S. citizen; or getting their GED.
Last
year we decided that wasn’t enough. We entered an agreement with Hurley
Elementary to work with 10 students in their third-grade class. We will be back
there this coming school year.
This
summer we partnered with the Salisbury Housing Authority to bring a summer
reading program to two neighborhoods, and the results have been fantastic. The
program with the Housing Authority is completely voluntary, but we have seen
our numbers rise every week, showing us that kids are enjoying the program. We
are looking into ways to continue that partnership during the school year. READ MORE @
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