News Flashes
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from Frost Illustrated
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Someone’s out to save our children.
Subject Terms: Prevention, Books, African Americans, Volunteer organizations, Nonprofit organizations
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from NIFL Family Literacy Discussion List
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The Santiago Declaration of 2007: Neuroscience Still On the Back Burner for
Education - Tom Sticht
Subject Terms: Brain functions, Literacy skills, Lifelong learning
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from ScienceDaily
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Most people are expert readers, but it is something of an enigma that our brain can achieve expertise in such a recent cultural invention, which lies at the interface between vision and language.
Subject Terms: Brain functions, Reading skills, Reading research, Dyslexia
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from Springfield News Sun
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The Warder Literacy Center may have to shut its doors if more funding isn’t secured soon.
Subject Terms: Financial needs, Socioeconomic conditions, Community literacy programs
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from Mainebiz
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Glenn Cummings, a Portland Democrat and former Maine Speaker of the House, heads to Washington, D.C., next week to join the Obama administration, pledging to do his best to restore the U.S. to the top 10 countries with an educated populace.
Subject Terms: Administrators, Educators, Federal agencies, National education goals, Adult education
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from HealthNewsDigest.com
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Getting a child to read can be challenging, but a recent survey found that 96 percent of U.S. and Canadian parents recognize the importance of having strong reading skills for school and as an adult.
Subject Terms: Reading activities, Parent involvement, Child literacy
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from Education Week Online
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One in five adults in the UK is deemed to be functionally illiterate.
Subject Terms: Therapy, Self esteem, Adult learning
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from Daily Times
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A local adult education advocate will soon present Tennessee's legislators with some of Blount County's success stories.
Subject Terms: Advocacy, Letter writing, Adult learners, Workforce Investment Act, Tennessee
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from Reuters UK
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Shi'ite farm women in a remote Afghan valley shrugged off a new law that has created an international uproar about their rights, saying it largely reflects the reality of lives governed by their husbands.
Subject Terms: Women's literacy, Rural literacy programs, Empowerment, Afghanistan
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from IPS
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Lorena Castillo was 10 years old when she was told that her lot in life was to become a good homemaker and a devoted wife and mother.
Subject Terms: Literacy campaigns, Government programs, Women's literacy, Nicaragua
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