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Dr Susi Arnott Jun 3, 2025

Catching up before next #ReadEasy session and wishing there was a 21st century equivalent (mind you, hard to find another #BobHoskins) #OntheMove #AdultLiteracy
Totally remit, @BBCRD
https://youtu.be/ufVe521quok?si=XRcqbJKd0UpPQP_H

BBC On the Move - Bob Hoskins

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Dr Susi Arnott Apr 20, 2025

@kim_harding Helpful insights, thanks! Fascinating in abstract but also v useful for work with https://readeasy.org.uk/volunteer/
#AdultLiteracy

Volunteer for Read Easy

2.4 million adults in England alone can barely read or can’t read at all. We need your help to change people’s lives.

ReadEasy

Meteorologist Austen Onek Dec 12, 2024

" #ChattanoogaPublicLibrary’s new #adultliteracy collection - A special collection for any #adultlearner looking to improve their #literacy skills".

Those interested in helping to tutor or read with other adults can also apply to volunteer at
https://chattlibrary.org/discovery/

Global News Winnipeg Dec 1, 2023

Manitoba introduces legislation to support adult literacy programs
Advanced Education and Training Minister Renée Cable said more than 1,200 adults participated in one of 26 adult literacy programs provincewide last year.
#globalnews #Education #AdultLiteracy #ProvinceofManitoba #reneecable
https://globalnews.ca/news/10142498/manitoba-legislation-adult-literacy-programs/

Manitoba introduces legislation to support adult literacy programs

Advanced Education and Training Minister Renée Cable said more than 1,200 adults participated in one of 26 adult literacy programs provincewide last year.

Global News

Global News Dec 1, 2023

Manitoba introduces legislation to support adult literacy programs

Advanced Education and Training Minister Renée Cable said more than 1,200 adults participated in one of 26 adult literacy programs provincewide last year.

Global News

Marcus Haile Jun 14, 2023

#AdultLiteracy leads to #EconomicJustice "Reading and numeracy are gateway skills to multiple literacies – including civic, digital, financial, health, and information – all of which interconnect and enable social and economic mobility," said Sarah Cacicio of All In Literacy.
https://allinliteracy.org/adult-literacy-and-learning-impact-network-releases-new-white-paper-investing-in-multiple-literacies-for-individual-and-collective-empowerment/

Adult Literacy and Learning Impact Network Releases New White Paper - ALL IN

Washington, D.C. – June 13, 2023 – The Adult Literacy and Learning Impact Network is pleased to announce the release of a new white paper, “Investing in Multiple Literacies for Individual and Collective Empowerment.” ALL IN is a collective impact initiative formed by national thought leaders across the adult learning ecosystem. Conceived and convened by […]

ALL IN

Marcus Haile Apr 21, 2023

Add to the focus of #familyliteracy the goals for "parent literacy." - "some of the parents of those children have a hard time reading themselves." Enough with the "family literacy" workshops. Foster parent enrollment in #adultedu #adultliteracy.
https://www.sungazette.com/opinion/editorials/2023/04/adult-literacy-should-be-a-bigger-concern/

Adult literacy should be a bigger concern

A lot of attention is being paid to what our children are reading nowadays, turning once sedate classrooms and libraries into battlefields in our country’s never-ending culture wars. Some overzealous parents and community members have gone on book-banning benders, even though restricting the choices of young people and dampening their curiosity is hardly a path […]

Williamsport Sun-Gazette

IHC Apr 12, 2023

📖 In a paper published in the Revue d'Histoire Contemporaine de l'Afrique, Mélanie Toulhoat analyses the genesis, the development and the political and cultural stakes of adult literacy and rural popular education projects set up from 1975 onwards in Guinea-Bissau. 🇬🇼

🔓 Read it on #OpenAcess: https://oap.unige.ch/journals/rhca/article/view/toulhoat

@histodons
#histodons #GuineaBissau #LiteracyProjects #PopularEducation #decolonization #AdultLiteracy #ActivistCirculations

« Lutar, aprender, vencer, trabalhar »: Alphabétisation pour adultes, éducation populaire et réseaux militants en Guinée-Bissau nouvellement indépendante | Revue d'histoire contemporaine de l'Afrique

Amelia Hanslow Jan 16, 2023

Just enrolled in my first course in yonks after getting a bit inspired about doing some work in adult literacy here in Tasmania 😀

#tasmania #AdultLiteracy #TasmanianLiteracy

Betsy Rubin Dec 17, 2022

A Fifth of American Adults Struggle to Read. Why Are We Failing to Teach Them? #AdultEdu #AdultEducation #AdultLiteracy #Literacy

Report in @ProPublica by Annie Waldman, Aliyya Swaby and Anna Clark, with additional reporting by Nicole Santa Cruz, photography by Kathleen Flynn, special to ProPublica

https://www.propublica.org/article/literacy-adult-education-united-states

Why America Fails Adults Who Struggle to Read

The nation’s approach to adult education has so far neglected to connect the millions of people struggling to read with the programs set up to help them.

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