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Literacy New Jersey is an American nonprofit organization founded in 1979 [2] based in Roselle, New Jersey, which coordinates a network of volunteers to promote literacy in the Garden State. [3] It provides free language services to persons who are illiterate or who have difficulty reading, writing, and speaking English .
For 40 years, the Permian Basin Adult Literacy Center has been enriching the lives of adults with no- and low-literacy through tutoring, small group, and online English language learning ...
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 San Diego Public Library system currently consists of the Central Library, 35 branch libraries, and an adult literacy program office (READ/San Diego). Library cards are free to applicants who reside within the state of California or own property in the city of San Diego , and to men and women serving in the armed forces who are stationed ...
The Literacy Coalition and the Midland County Public Library will begin to offer English as a Second Language classes starting March 4 at the Downtown Municipal Library, 301 W Missouri Ave., Midland.
Although the U.S. Adult Education and Literacy System (AELS) and legislation such as the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 had highlighted education as an issue of national importance, [16] the push for high levels of mass literacy has been a recent development; expectations of literacy have sharply increased over past decades. [17]
Post-literacy or post-literacy education is a concept used in continuing education and adult education programs aimed at recently literate or "neo-literate" adults and communities, largely in the developing world.
Some adult high schools offer child care, special integration programs for immigrants and refugees, career and other programs and services geared toward the special needs of adult students. Some adult high schools may also offer general interest programs such as computer skills or other continuing education courses.