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2017 Literacy Leadership Awards

National Coalition for Literacy: September 2017

The Board of Directors of the National Coalition for Literacy is pleased to announce the winners of the 2017 Literacy Leadership Awards. The decision process was challenging this year, as we had eight nominations submitted. Thank you for your nominations and for your ongoing support for this long-standing public awareness initiative.

The NCL Literacy Leadership Awards recognize individuals and organizations that have made extraordinary national contributions to improving adult literacy and English language learning in the United States. This year, the NCL will recognize the following outstanding individuals and organizations:

§ Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), for her long-standing dedication to our nation’s adult literacy and language programs and her efforts to safeguard education and other critical programs that ensure equal employment opportunity for adults with low literacy levels, most recently as Ranking Member of the Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Subcommittee.

§ Dr. Stephen Reder, Professor Emeritus of Applied Linguistics, Portland State University, for his tireless advocacy for adult learners and the field of adult education, and for his extensive research on the impacts of adult literacy skills attainment, culminating in the 10-year Longitudinal Study of Adult Learning that has demonstrated the correlation between participation in adult education and increases in income, educational attainment, and civic participation.

§ Dr. Sharon Darling, Founder and President, the National Center for Families Learning, for her key role in recognizing the critical link between parents' education and children's learning, and for her nearly three decades of leadership in in establishing a nationwide network of programs that provide high quality, accessible family-based education and that have helped over one million vulnerable families learn and thrive together.

§ The Minnesota ABE Teaching and Learning Advancement System (ATLAS) at Hamline University, for its innovative, practitioner-centered program that provides quality in-service professional development for the ABE/ESOL workforce, promoting program and instructional quality, informing adult literacy practice nationwide, and producing national leaders in the field.

The 2017 Literacy Leadership Awards event will take place on Wednesday, October 4, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m., in Washington, DC in the Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2043. The event is free and open to the public; all NCL members and others interested in promoting adult education and family literacy are welcome to attend.  READ MORE @