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Adult Education and Family Literacy Week 2024
Adult Education and Family Literacy Week provides an opportunity to reflect on the many ways that adult learners and adult education programs strengthen and enrich their communities. Take some time during the week of September 15-21 to learn more about a program in your… Continue Reading “Adult Education and Family Literacy Week 2024”
Learning from the Forgotten 90 Percent
Why is it that only 10 percent of the adults in the United States who lack basic literacy and numeracy skills participate in adult education? Program capacity is certainly one reason. But what about the adults themselves? What is holding them back, and what… Continue Reading “Learning from the Forgotten 90 Percent”
Briefing on the Value of Adult Education
I will be coordinating the panel of speakers for a Congressional briefing on the outcomes and significance of federal support for adult literacy on Wednesday, May 9, 2018. The briefing is free and open to the public. Downloadable invitation: National Coalition for Literacy Invitation-1
Literacy in a Digital World
Friday September 8 is UNESCO International Literacy Day. The theme for 2017 is “literacy in a digital world.” According to the UNESCO ILD website, the day’s “overall aim [is] to look at what kind of literacy skills people need to navigate increasingly digitally-mediated societies,… Continue Reading “Literacy in a Digital World”
Check In with Congress to Support the Humanities
The week of October 3-7 is National Humanities Check-In Week! Through this initiative, the National Humanities Alliance, the Association of American Universities, and the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities are encouraging citizens to check in with their Members of Congress to reinforce the… Continue Reading “Check In with Congress to Support the Humanities”
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