Literacy: Spanning the U.S.
Literacy
Bitterroot celebrates 30 years
Ravalli Republic: 12.07.2017 by Michelle McConnaha
Literacy
Bitterroot
has served almost 4,000 students since it's inception in 1987, and is
celebrating 30 years of programming on Friday.
Dixie
Stark, executive director, said the program is no longer under the Montana
Office of Public Instruction, but a community-based organization providing
locally controlled and accessed services.
She
said Literacy Bitterroot has taken a shift of services to provide more than an
endpoint for high school education. When Literacy Bitterroot started, the
program tutored adults who wanted to learn to read.
“Now
we do reading, math, language, social studies, and help those who want to
prepare for college,” Stark said. “In the past ,if you had a high school
diploma we couldn’t provide services to you, but now we can. If you have a high
school diploma but forgot everything you were supposed to know about algebra
and you want to go to college, this is the right place to come.
"We
can help people brush up or remember what they never learned before.”
Stark
said Literacy Bitterroot has always been more than a reading program. It's a
place that figures out what the barriers to success are for students, and tries
to help. READ MORE >>
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Non-profit helps Eau Claire
inmates share books with kids during the holidays
WSAW: 12.07.2017 by Amanda Tyler
Stories
are coming alive page by page ahead of the Christmas season. With every
paragraph read aloud, inmates at the Eau Claire County Jail in Wisconsin are
putting together Christmas presents to send home to their kids. All of it is
made possible thanks to the Parents Sharing Books Program offered by non-profit
Literacy Chippewa Valley.
Each
year, Literacy Chippewa Valley sends volunteers into the Chippewa, Dunn and Eau
Claire County Jails to help inmates record themselves reading books to their
kids.
"Once
they are finished, we put the recording on a CD and send the book, CD and a
bookmark to the child for Christmas," Louise Bentley with Literacy
Chippewa Valley explained. WATCH VIDEO
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Ending
Illiteracy: Southwest Airlines Partners with Florida Literacy Coalition
14biz:
12.2017
More
than 36 million American adults have low literacy skills. Often cited as a
silent epidemic, 14 percent of adults struggle to read, write, do math and use
technology above a third-grade level. Consider the issues that many Central
Floridians care deeply about: jobs, crime, poverty, immigration, education,
health care and the economy. One factor that can have a positive impact on all
of these is increasing adult literacy rates.
Research
shows that individuals who participate in adult education and literacy programs
have higher future earnings, and their income premiums grow with more intensive
participation. Children whose parents are involved with them in family literacy
activities consistently score higher on standardized reading tests. Put quite
simply, adult education programs are among the best available weapons against
intergenerational low literacy and poverty.
The
Florida Literacy Coalition, headquartered
in Maitland, promotes, supports and advocates for the effective delivery of
quality adult and family literacy services throughout the state of Florida. As
a statewide umbrella literacy organization and the host of Florida’s Adult and
Family Literacy Resource Center, FLC provides a range of services to support
more than 250 adult education, literacy, ESL and family literacy providers.
Special emphasis is placed on assisting community-based literacy organizations
with its training and program development needs. READ MORE >>
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