ProLiteracy
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Help us raise adult literacy rates to improve lives worldwide. #AdultEDU #SupportAdultLiteracy
Syracuse, NY
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🙌 Meet Alcida, an ESL student in Chesterfield County Public Schools Adult Continuing Education Center, who is advancing her career goals to become a medical interpreter through EnGen's mobile-first English instruction:
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📚 For three decades, our National Book Fund grants have been helping programs in need. We are thrilled to be doing it again. Apply now to the 2025 National Book Fund to receive high-quality print resources from ProLiteracy New Readers Press:
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⚙️ Media literacy is a necessary life skill that allows adults to confidently engage in the world around them. Our Navigating Media Literacy Course reinforces the skills that help students filter out fake and misleading information: #NewsLiteracyWeek
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👍 Looking for tips on effectively teaching news literacy? Revisit our webinar on navigating media and misinformation. Watch the webinar: #NewsLiteracyWeek #AdultEdu #LiteracyMatters
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➡️ For Black History Month, News for You has unlocked articles related to the Black experience in America. Visit our Tips for Teachers page to access the free collection: ➡️ Learn more about News for You:
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📢 We are calling for contributors to a special issue of our research journal that will explore and amplify the experiences, challenges, and successes of adult learners to foster deeper connections between research, practice, and policy. Visit:
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Our classroom sets help you serve students across all levels of learning for less. 👀 This month, we’re discounting our sets even more! Use code FEB25 through 2/28/25 for 10% off our entire collection of student and classroom sets! 📚 Shop:
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✔️ During National News Literacy Week, use our News for You News Literacy Tips for Teachers and help students build the skills to determine the credibility of the information they are consuming: #NewsLiteracyWeek #AdultEdu #LiteracyMatters
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✨ This year, try something new. Help adults in your community become more employable, more engaged parents, and more independent. Volunteer at your local adult literacy program; you won't regret it. Find a local program:
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💡 Keep your classroom up on current events this year with News for You. This month only, save 10% on a new subscription or renewal to News for You! ⭐ Use code: JAN25 ⏳ Offer expires: 1/31/25 📰 Subscribe:
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✨ Literacy = hope. Our recent work with adults and youth in Egypt, supported by KFC, is a prime example of our invested interest in building equity and increasing access to education in underserved communities around the world. #InternationalDayofEducation
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📢 We are calling for contributors to a special issue of our research journal that will explore and amplify the experiences, challenges, and successes of adult learners to foster deeper connections between research, practice, and policy. Visit:
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🌍 Improving literacy around the world leads to gender equality, financial independence, improved health and hygiene, and more peaceful and sustainable societies. Every adult has the right to live a better life through literacy.
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There’s been a lot of thought and debate when it comes to the science of reading and what exactly are the most effective ways to teach reading. But where does all this stand when it comes to adult learners? Read Amani Talwar’s research digest:
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It’s time to shed the misperceptions of what low literacy in adults looks like. It’s time every adult knows that they can improve their skills, judgment free. We can build stronger communities and brighter futures. Support adult literacy:
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🇺🇸 Lynne Weintraub, author of our popular New Readers Press Citizenship Passing the Test series, will share insight about why the most difficult part of the citizenship test to prepare for is the English-speaking subtest. When: 4 p.m., Jan. 16 Register:
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💡 Keep your classroom up on current events this year with News for You. This month only, save 10% on a new subscription or renewal to News for You! ⭐ Use code: JAN25 ⏳ Offer expires: 1/31/25 📰 Subscribe:
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ICYMI ➡️ Daphne Greenberg, a longtime friend of ProLiteracy and regular contributor to our research journal, spoke with NPR Marketplace about the recent PIAAC findings that nearly 28% of US adults read at the lowest levels. Find her interview here:
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When it comes to adult learners who read at the lowest levels, what is the most effective way to better serve them? Three experts weigh in. Read more:
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Adult education programming works. The latest data indicates roughly 59 million American adults read at or below the lowest levels. That’s 59 million opportunities to improve lives and communities. 👉 Learn how you can get involved:
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