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Byline: Journal Record Staff Oklahoma CareerTech's 29 technology centers, 16 Skills Centers and 32 Adult Education and Family Literacy providers generated nearly $1 billion in economic impact in fiscal 2023, [...]

The Wisconsin Bankers Association (WBA) announced on Friday that it has awarded five grants of $10,000 to Wisconsin projects supporting housing and economic development. These grants also were awarded to [...]

Byline: By, Abigail Nicholson Hundreds of children will get a special gift this Christmas after £15,000 worth of books were donated. Liverpool-based brand & communications agency Agent has been running [...]

M2 PRESSWIRE-October 10, 2023-: New, Free Professional Learning Series on Literacy Available From Discovery Education and the Dollar General (C)1994-2023 M2 COMMUNICATIONS RDATE:10102023 CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Discovery Literacy - an [...]

GOODLETTSVILLE: Dollar General announced it is planning to open its first store in Montana in fall 2023, which will give the major retailer a presence in its 48th state and [...]

TAMPA, Fla. -- Coca-Cola Beverages Florida, LLC (Coke Florida) is celebrating Black History Month 2023 with an expanded focus on education, digital literacy, and economic empowerment by partnering with community-based [...]

Denver, Colo., Sep 29, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE via COMTEX) -- The Dollar General Literacy Foundation is continuing its work with the American Indian College Fund to increase the number of [...]

DENVER, CO -- The following information was released by the American Indian College Fund: Native Students Have Lowest National High School Attainment Rates; Progress Needed to Achieve Equity in Native [...]

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (PRWEB) November 19, 2019 ProLiteracy and SelfPubBookCovers.com, an online marketplace for high quality pre-made book covers, are partnering in the fight against illiteracy. The goal of the partnership [...]

ProLiteracy and SelfPubBookCovers.com, an online marketplace for high quality pre-made book covers, are partnering in the fight against illiteracy. The goal of the partnership is to raise awareness of adult [...]

If the answer to the digital divide were just providing internet access, the solution would be relatively simple. But as global telecommunications giant Comcast has discovered, the divide is as [...]

BioTalent Canada launched its new national online training program: 'Essential Skills Fundamentals for the Canadian bio-economy'. The training program has been developed to address skills gaps identified by both post-secondary [...]

Byline: Razina Alam Khan 'Despite many hazards like earthquakes, tsunamis and world war II, Japan was able to achieve economic success and growth, only through education and technical skills of [...]

The Book Boost: Access for All Challenge Seeks Innovations to Reduce the Cost to Produce Digital Reading Materials, Including Books for Children Who Are Blind or Have Low Vision WASHINGTON, [...]

A new program to provide assistance for children with economic difficulties will be presented by Minister of Education Akila Viraj Kariyawasam as a budget proposal. He said that this program [...]

Albany: Colonie (Albany/Colonie) Regional Chamber of Commerce has issued the following news release: Berkshire Bank Foundation is excited to announce that it has awarded $314,901 in grants and pledges to [...]

An artisan at work in Webuye town: Most informal workers are poor and most of the working poor are informally employed. PHOTO | FILE By ANZENTSE WERE Posted Sunday, February [...]

New Literacy Project seeks to improve literacy rates. Dubai, UAE: Pearson, the world's leading learning company, has announced two new initiatives to increase its support for better educational outcomes in [...]

Byline: PATRICK WHITE SERVICES Facing demands from Mayor Rob Ford to slash a further 4.3 per cent from her budget, Toronto's chief librarian is proposing new fines and a slate [...]

NEW YORK, N.Y. -- The following information was released by the Council for Economic Education: Campaign for Economic Literacy Test your own economic literacy Test your knowledge of basic economics. [...]

PITTSBURGH, PA -- The following information was released by the University of Pittsburgh: With more than 90 million U.S. adults lacking the literacy skills needed to lead fully productive and [...]

Innovative Program Teaches Area Youth Digital Literacy and Leadership Skills MARTINSVILLE, Va., June 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Comcast and One Economy recognized a class of 18 graduates from the Comcast [...]

COUNTRY BACKGROUND FROM THE ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT For a low-income country with a rapidly growing population, Syria has a fairly good basic education system. Literacy rates are higher than in [...]

COUNTRY BACKGROUND FROM THE ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT Traditionally, education outside urban centres concentrated on oral poetic, narrative and Islamic instruction. Reza Shah Pahlavi's government made the first advances towards more [...]

COUNTRY BACKGROUND FROM THE ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT Insufficient funding reduces quality For a low-income country with a rapidly-growing population, Syria has a relatively good basic education system. Literacy rates are [...]

COUNTRY BACKGROUND FROM THE ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT Literacy rates improving Until the 1970s Ghana had one of the most highly developed education systems in West Africa. It declined after 1975, [...]

* Can you measure the business impact of literacy training? You bet, says Don Ford, Ph.D., of Training Education Management (Redondo Beach, Calif.), speaking at the 2003 American Society for [...]