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ReadWest Celebrates 30-Years Of Adult Literacy With Dia de los Muertos Event

KRQE: 10.15.2019 by Allison Keys

ReadWest Inc. is one of the largest community-based adult literacy programs in New Mexico. The local nonprofit helps adults transform their lives by proving their ability to find work, participate in their child’s education, and become effective members of the community.

Improved literacy skills open the door for more employment opportunities, vocational programs, and higher education. The state’s economy also benefits from improved literacy as a literate workforce attracts more businesses to locate in New Mexico and provides additional opportunities and competition for skilled workers.  READ MORE >>

Strathmore Library

Library Gets Community Learning Grant Funding

Strathmore Now: 10.15.2019 by Monique Massiah

The library has received a Community Adult Learning Program grant.

A Community Adult Learning Program grant awarded to the Strathmore Municipal Library will enable the library to create two full-time positions, with one being a Literacy Services Coordinator.

The Strathmore library is the recipient of a $100,000 Community Adult Learning Program (CALP) grant from the Government of Alberta.

The grant is awarded to community-based organizations funded by Alberta-Advanced Education. They provide increased access to foundational learning opportunities like adult literacy, numeracy, English language learning, and basic digital skills.

Miranda Johnson, Director of Library Services explained, “we’ll be offering learning opportunities for adults at the most basic level in terms of foundational learning and literacy.”

She spoke of the importance of having basic literacy skills, or numeracy skills.

“Could you imagine if you couldn’t read a stop sign? How that would impact your daily life, how you contribute to the economy and support your family,” she said.

“It’s not so much that we will be offering adult education in terms of hobbies, or career support. It’s more of the very basic literacy and foundational learning, that will be our approach,” said Johnson.  READ MORE >>

Literacy Center

Literacy Center Studies Open New Doors For Eager Students

Bluffton Sun: 10.15.2019 by Gwyneth J. Saunders

Like most night school students, the people coming through the door have just come from their jobs, possibly gulping down a hurried bite to eat en route. For the next two hours, they will absorb as much information as they can and then head home or to a second job.

These aren't ordinary students. The adults registered with South Carolina Adult Education are taking classes at the Literacy Center in Bluffton.

The current students come from 30 countries and speak 10 different languages. Out of the 433 enrolled, nearly 25 percent have degrees in law, medicine, finance and other subjects.

Success in their studies here will open many more doors when they have mastered English as a second language, or enhanced their math, reading and writing abilities. Some will earn their General Education Diploma (GED).

When Angelica Diaz and her family moved to Bluffton two years ago, she signed up for classes right away. It was a way to regain the English skills she had 20 years ago.

"When you don't practice one language, you don't have anything," Diaz said. "My goal is to learn English for everything in life, and find a job for something I did in Venezuela."  READ MORE >>