National Adult Literacy Database

Réseau pour le développement de l'alphabétisme et des compétences (RESDAC) and their event co-sponsor the Canadian Literacy and Learning Network (CLLN) are offering a course on place-based learning communities by Professor Ron Farris, a renowned educator from the University of Victoria.

This video tutorial offers further practice on applying the order of operations to math problems that contain decimals.

The United Way Greater Simcoe County’s community impact director Cathy Barlow presented Midland Area Reading Council board president Leigh Gate and executive director Sue Bannon with $50,000, an amount the United Way has pledged to MARC per year the next three years.

"This modern approach allows our programs to be more responsive to the needs of industry and the labour market," said New Brunswick Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour Minister Martine Coulombe. "We are shifting some authority to industry – where it makes sense to do so – while continuing to maintain government oversight.”

For over 17 years the Peter Gzowski Invitational Golf Tournament for Literacy has been the largest fundraiser for literacy in the Yukon territory. About 70 cents of every dollar raised goes directly to adult learning programs supported by the Yukon Learn Society.

UCN officials say the school will only succeed and serve the community if it develops teaching staff who come from the North and want to build their lives in the North. "We've had (outside) individuals who, for whatever reason, couldn't align themselves with the mission and the mandate," interim UCN president Konrad Jonasson has said.

“Compassion is hard if you don’t have humility,” says psychologist Jordan LaBouff of the University of Maine. What’s more, he says, humble people tend to make better employees and bosses. But because the typical American workplace tends to reward self-promotion over humility, such modest types may have a tough time making it to the top.

In this paper, the author explores how self-employed contractors and consultants can and do participate in informal learning.

Five Anglican ministers led the project, and notably, all were Inuk. “For the first time in Canada, the entire translation was done by mother tongue speakers of the language rather than by missionaries,” reads a statement by the Canadian Bible Society.

This lesson plan, designed for a tutor working with an adult learner, uses a recipe for banana bread to teach a variety of skills. Those skills include following a recipe; learning how to increase or decrease the quantity of ingredients; and making conversions between different systems of measurement.