Dollar General Presentation Series —Provided with generous support from the Dollar General Literacy Foundation
NCL Celebrates Adult Education and Family Literacy Week at Annual Literacy Leadership Award Event
On September 14, more than 100 Congresspersons, Congressional staff, adult education stakeholders, and other guests joined the National Coalition for Literacy at the Senate Dirksen Building for the 2011 NCL Literacy Leadership Awards.
Award recipients included:
Congressman Jared Polis (D-CO), Congressional Adult Education and Family Literacy Week champion and dedicated advocate for high-quality professional development for teachers and instructors.
Greater Pittsburgh Literacy Council, administrator of the national Literacy*AmeriCorps project since 2006, which serves more than 15,000 adult literacy students through more than 75 adult education programs in eight cities, including Austin, Dayton, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Washington DC.
U.S. A. Learns, the online interactive English language learning site, created by Jere Johnston and John Fleischman. The site is free to learners who wish to improve their literacy skills and English language proficiency through independent study. It receives more than 11,000 visitors each day.
John Corcoran, former adult literacy student, literacy champion, and founder of the John Corcoran Foundation, which supports creating a society in which each individual has the basic skills necessary to become a success in all aspects of life including education, work and community service.
Congressman Jared Polis, in his acceptance remarks, said:
By emphasizing basic skills such as reading, writing, and math, preparing adult learners to take GED tests, and assisting non-native speakers with learning English, adult education programs help participants gain the skills they need to reenter the education pipeline and transition to college—a critical part of creating an internationally competitive workforce and meeting the President's goal of a nation with the highest proportion of college graduates by 2020.
And family literacy programs help break cycles of poverty and illiteracy that affect some of our nation’s most vulnerable families by providing parents with the knowledge and skills they need to be full participants in their child’s education and development and helping ensure that children start school ready to learn.
The National Coalition for Literacy is grateful to the Dollar General Literacy Foundation for making this event possible.
