News Flashes
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from NIACE
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Patience Thomson is today, Wednesday 13 May 2009, announced as the winner of the Quick Reads Learners' Favourite Award.
Subject Terms: Parent involvement, Books, Adult learners, Awards and diplomas, United Kingdom
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from NIFL Adult English Language Learners Discussion List
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From May 18 - 29 we will be trying something new on the NIFL English language learners discussion list, an online ESL study group on one small topic, "Using Group Games to Teach the Present Continuous Tense."
Subject Terms: Games, Group activities, English as a second language (ESL), Listservs
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from NIFL Workplace Literacy Discussion List
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Adult Literacy House In the Unites States Divided by Blooming, Buzzing Confusion - Tom Sticht
Subject Terms: Literacy movement, National education goals, Organizations (Groups)
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from Reading Today Daily
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In his remarks Thursday, May 7, on the Fiscal Year 2010 Budget Proposals, President Barack Obama said he would seek to eliminate certain educational programs
Subject Terms: Federal agencies, Federal programs, Educational finance
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from Newsday
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Numerous studies have suggested that music education helps children perform better in school. Now, a new study by two professors at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University has established a specific link between music education and literacy.
Subject Terms: Music, Elementary education, Child literacy
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from Ajax World Magazine
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The Institute for Healthcare Advancement (IHA) presented three awards today for outstanding achievements in health literacy at its Eighth Annual Health Literacy Conference, "Health Literacy: Bridging Research and Practice," held at the Hyatt Regency in Irvine, Calif.
Subject Terms: Literacy health relationships, Meetings, Awards and diplomas
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from Christian Science Monitor
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A new government study looks at factors like income and identifies specific skills that could be challenging.
Subject Terms: Literacy statistics, Reading skills, Basic skills
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from Foster's Daily Democrat
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Richard Allain had wanted to learn to read better for a long time.
Subject Terms: Tutors, Volunteers, Adult learners, Awards and diplomas, Community literacy programs
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from NIFL Adult English Language Learners Discussion List
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Today, the National Center for Education Statistics released a new report, Basic Reading Skills and the Literacy of America's Least Literate Adults: Results from the 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL).
Subject Terms: Literacy statistics, Reading skills, Basic skills
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from Reading Today Daily
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On October 8, more than one million children and adults are expected to team up with a single “Hungry Caterpillar” to help break a world record for the world's largest shared reading experience and draw attention to the early education needs of millions of at-risk young children in the United States and across the globe.
Subject Terms: Public awareness campaigns, Reading, Child literacy
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