Saturday, July 28, 2007

BlogAThon - News

The 1/2 hour comes flying at ya !

Have had time to check some literacy - library feeds & alerts:
A few of the items within the last day . . .

Reading skills enhance fun, preserve livesSauk Valley Newspapers - Dixon,IL,USAOne local school is trying to nip illiteracy in the bud, with the help of the University of Illinois Extension service. Dillon Elementary in Rock Falls is

Good News in the Deaf Community!By Flora Doehler In Ontario Deaf, Aboriginal/Native, Francophone, and Anglophone are the four distinct cultural groups funded by the government to provide adult literacy programs. Today I want to tell you about some great news for the Deaf literacy ...
AlphaPlus Blog - http://blog.alphaplus.ca

Illiteracy: The Downfall of American SocietyBy forums_mp ... we set our entire country up for failure. Statistics for this article were obtained from the following sources: National Institute for Literacy, National Center for Adult Literacy, The Literacy Company, US Census Bureau.
National - http://betboards.bet.com/forums/110/ShowForum.aspx

Low Literacy Equals Early Death SentenceBy Julia Whitty Older people with poor health literacy have a 50 percent higher mortality rate over five years than people with adequate reading skills. Low health literacy is defined as the inability to read and comprehend basic materials like ...
The Blue Marble - http://www.motherjones.com/blue_marble_blog/

-can also check out Literacyspace for more on this last item.

Blogathon 2007

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