Literacy: Spanning the U.S.
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Big Thank You To Bruce
Connect: November
2018
The Bob Lucas Branch is home to
the Literacy
Program, powered by a host of volunteers dedicated to helping out community
learn to read and more !
An Altadenan, Bruce has
volunteered with the District’s Adult Literacy Program for nearly nine years
and currently working with two learners. Over the many years, Bruce has supported Altadena libraries,
his favorite memories as a volunteer consist of “any time [he] sees the look on a
student’s face when they experience their moment of accomplishment,” the “aha” moment
every tutor strives for with their students.
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Successful North Carolina Adult Literacy
Programs Lacking In Funds
Initiatives struggle to find money
going to children
Charlotte
Post: 11.11.2018 by Danielle Chemtob
Faye Alston reached into her
mailbox at Kingswood Apartments in Chapel Hill and pulled out an envelope.
It contained the last piece of
what she’d been working toward for seven years — her GED math test results.
She opened the letter, looked at
her score and burst into tears. It was a
400. She needed a 410 to pass.
Alston, now 58, had taken the
test 13 times, and her resolve was wearing down.
“I would just wait for the paper
and just pray,” she said.
Every time, she was within reach
of a passing score, but just missed the mark. She’d passed every other subject
on the first try.
“After a while, I would get so
aggravated with math, that I would just have to leave it alone for a while and
just do the next subject,” Alston said.
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After receiving her score, she
confessed during her regular tutoring session at Orange Literacy Center that she wasn’t
sure she could continue.
“I am so tired of this 400,” she
told her tutor, Patrick. “I just don’t think that I can do it anymore.”
But he told her not to give up.
She had one more shot: less than three months later, she could take the test
again, and if she didn’t pass, she’d have to start her GED over again.
Literacy centers across North Carolina help adults such as Alston
improve their skills in reading, writing, mathematics and other subjects. They
offer courses in basic adult education, GED, English for Speakers of Other
Languages, citizenship and family literacy.
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At Literacy Zone, Adults Invest In
Their Futures
Free classes prepare Albany
residents for high school equivalency exam
Times
Union: 11.13.2018 by Donna Liquori
Jackie Williams tells her
grandkids to stay in school. Then she took it one step further."I promised
my grandkids," she said when asked why she was participating in a class
for a high school equivalency diploma. She told them: "If you stay in
school, Grandma will get her GED."
And that's what she's doing at
night after working her day job as an administrative assistant, and she hopes
it pays off with a professional advancement. She was among eight students who
trickled into class at the newly opened West
Hill/Arbor Hill Literacy Zone on Clinton Avenue on a recent evening.
They've been taking the free evening classes for several months now.
That night, the group listened to
the audio version of the book "Wonder" by R.J. Palacio while
following along with printouts of the written version. They worked on their
"Evry-Day edit" assignment, which was about Teddy Roosevelt. And they
learned about an upcoming session called Successful Testing Strategies, which
some of the students said they needed.
Many of the students were there
in hopes that a high school diploma would help them advance at work or find
employment.
"It's become more and more
difficult to find employment without one," said Maria Huntington, program
manager.
Many of the students had trouble
finishing school due to learning disabilities, responsibilities at home or
other barriers that prevented them from receiving a diploma.
The staff at the Literacy Zone
helps them overcome any other obstacles that they might have as adult students.
"The goal for the Literacy
Zone is that we want to make sure they're successful in the classroom and
outside," Huntington said. READ
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