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Since it was established, the Foundation has funded grass roots literacy programs that have helped 200,000 adult Virginians learn to read. When the VLF was started, the organization supported 34 community- and faith-based literacy organizations across Virginia who served a total of 1,400 adults.
Gallup principal economist Jonathan Rothwell assessed results collected by PIAAC during 2012 - 2017 for a 2020 economic impact analysis [9] commissioned by the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy, [10] surmising that, of the 33 OECD nations surveyed, the U.S. had placed sixteenth for literacy, with about half of Americans surveyed, aged ...
ProLiteracy, also known as ProLiteracy Worldwide, is an international nonprofit organization that supports literacy programs that help adults learn to read and write. [1] [2] Based in Syracuse, New York, [3] ProLiteracy has slightly less than 1,000 member programs in the U.S. and works with 21 partners in 35 developing countries.
The $7 million prize purse challenged teams to develop working mobile apps within one year that result in the greatest increase to adult learner literacy skills. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] In 2016, the organization announced a new partnership with Talk With Me Baby, a Georgia-based organization that the Foundation helped launch nationwide. [ 26 ]
The National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL) [37] was sponsored by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) as one of its assessment programs. [38] The study included comparisons to the 1992 survey. Adults over sixteen years of age were scored on their prose, document, and quantitative literacy.
The Richmond Adult Career Development Center is an alternative school located in Richmond, Virginia, United States, and is part of the Richmond Public Schools system. The ACDC was established in 1975 and is a non-traditional public school providing all age groups access to programs that may help satisfy certain aspects of their formal educational. [1]
The Reading Teacher—for those working with children to age 12; Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy—for teachers of older learners; Reading Research Quarterly—publishes contributions in literacy research; Reading Online, an e-journal, sponsored by the organization, was retired in 2005. [2]
In 2022, Sheryl Sims became the first African-American woman to join the Nelly Custis Chapter of the DAR in Alexandria, Virginia. [46] In September 2022, Sharon Fort became the first African-American woman to join the DAR in Arkansas. [47] In December 2022, DAR donated $150,000 to the Marian Anderson Museum to help with restoration costs ...