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Literacy: Spanning the US

READ San Diego

An App for Library Literacy Programs

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Learning Upgrade App

See how the Learning Upgrade App is changing lives at READ San Diego Public Library. Learners use app while working with a tutor or while they are waiting to be placed. Tutors and admins can then use reports to help with instruction.

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@LiteracyBuffalo

Literacy Training Is Crucial To Workforce Development

Buffalo News: 8.03.2019 by Tara Schafer, Exec Dir-Literacy New York Buffalo-Niagara

With recent announcements regarding major investments on Buffalo’s East Side, and health care programming in the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, there are many positive developments underway.

This is great news. As the region’s sole provider of free one-on-one adult literacy services, we are committed to making sure that there is funding for literacy enhancement, upgrades and training. We want people to understand that literacy is an important part of workforce development.

The City of Buffalo has a 30% functional illiteracy rate – 10 percentage points higher than the national average. For years, at Literacy New York Buffalo-Niagara, we have sounded the warning that economic development, and workforce development, must address the city’s current skills gap. We have watched as millions of dollars are put into projects, knowing that the most important piece – literate employees to fill the jobs – is the critical link that can determine the success of the project.  READ MORE >>

Indiana Adult 

Literacy Study

Study Shows Literacy Gap In County

Chronicle Tribune: 8.03.2019 by Samantha Oyler

At least 20 percent of residents in Grant County are functionally illiterate, according to research by Jan Lankenau, a member of the Grant County Literacy Council, an organization dedicated to improving adult literacy in the area.

During her time teaching for a GED program, Lankenau said she noticed this problem.

But this problem isn’t unique to Grant County.

According to ProLiteracy, an organization that promotes adult literacy across the country, one in six young adults drop out of high school every year.

That adds up to more than 1.2 million people.

The Grant County Literacy Council focuses on those individuals who are no longer in the education system.

Lankenau said that while children have more opportunities to learn to read, adults might not have those same chances.

She recalls a number of people who completed the literacy council’s program who had gone most of their lives without having to read.  READ MORE >>