State officials honored 12 years of volunteer and philanthropic service to incarcerated women on Thursday by inducting Muskogee native Suzanne Edmondson to the Oklahoma Women’s Hall of Fame.
Subject Terms: Volunteers, Awards and diplomas, Correctional education, Women's education, Oklahoma

Training in English-as-a-second-language (ESL) can help address potential safety and productivity issues that employers face as more and more foreign-born workers join the United States workforce. Yet a recent survey by The Conference Board found that many employers are not taking steps to address language limitations.
Subject Terms: Workforce literacy, ESL literacy, English as a second language (ESL), Corporate education, Literacy work relationships

Analysis shows most documents require reading skills beyond those of general population
Subject Terms: Readability, Literacy levels, Reading skills, Literacy health relationships

The head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has designated Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands to assist the agency in promoting literacy.
Subject Terms: Administrators, International literacy, International organizations

If you lose your job, finding a new one especially in this economy is not easy. But there are success stories — people who are overcoming terrible adversity and actually making a better life.
Subject Terms: Adult learners, Parents, GED

Program teaches inmates reading, writing skills
Subject Terms: Correctional education, Immigrant literacy, English as a second language (ESL)

Take a moment and think of all the things you do each day that involve literacy – reading the paper each morning, making a grocery list, writing a note to your spouse, reading a story to your child at night, and so much more.
Subject Terms: Literacy statistics, Reading, Economic impact

Local students and parents gathered Wednesday night for some fast food and books at Family Mealtime Literacy Night, a new community effort being promoted by the National Center for Family Literacy and Southern California McDonald's restaurants.
Subject Terms: Corporate support, Local government, Family literacy

Guest Speaker Topic: Emotional, Occupational, and Self-Esteem Issues in Adults with Learning Disabilities
Subject Terms: Learning disabilities, Emotions, Occupations, Self esteem, Listservs

Rhode Island has proposed a new rule that would require all health insurance policies to be readable at the eighth-grade level.
Subject Terms: Readability, Forms, Literacy health relationships, State standards, Rhode Island