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Literacy and numeracy skills are essential for navigating life in today’s society. More and more jobs require proficient reading, comprehension, math and, more recently, digital skills. To help identify the status of literacy in Canada, researchers of adult literacy developed a five-point literacy scale to categorize one’s level of literacy. Generally speaking, at level five […]

Metro News March 31 2014 Impact of low Literacy can be profound Read More

Nov, 25, 2013 At the Dartmouth Learning Network, lives are being impacted in a big way. Lesley Dunn, executive director of the organization says that literacy rates in Canada and Nova Scotia are “shockingly low.” In her position, Dunn champions the cause of literacy in Nova Scotia, a problem that many people don’t even know

http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/19/canada-jobs-grant-not-as-seen-on-tv/ It is unfortunate that so much money is being spent on an initiative that is not being embraced by the Premiers or Canadians as a whole. Community Learning Organizations working with low literate adults will be hit hardest by the Canada Jobs Grant.  Up to March 31, 2014 transfer funds from the Federal Government under