International Women’s Day: Education Fuels Gender Equality
Day in and day out, ProLiteracy works in the US and internationally to educate women, which is one of the foundations to achieving gender equality.
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US Adults Need Stronger Skills to Thrive in a Changing World
The new PIAAC Survey of Adult Skills data indicates 60 million US adults read at the lowest levels, while 72 million are at the lowest levels for numeracy.
Why and How a Statewide Literacy Network is Reinventing its Basic Literacy Program
Literacy NJ is taking steps to prioritize adults at the lowest literacy levels by implementing a new Steps to Success initiative.
Volunteer Recruitment and Retention: Encourage Volunteers to Spread the Word
According to the 2000 National Survey of Giving, Volunteering, and Participating, there are four main reasons people don’t volunteer.
Build a Book Club, and Build a Love of Reading Among Adult Learners
It's National Reading Month, and in partnership with Gemma, we’ve outlined every step to starting a book club for your adult students to build positive and successful experiences that instill a love of reading.
From the Desk of the CEO: Changing the Systems that Perpetuate Poverty and Low Literacy
Adults don’t stay low literate because they didn’t want to learn how to read—their economic status set them up to fail from the time they were young.
Multilingual Instruction Can Help the World Access Education
Worldwide, 40% of the population—or hundreds of millions of people—do not have access to an education in a language they speak or understand.
