Census data shows that 40% of adults in Odessa and Midland have, on average, limited English proficiency. This limits nearly 72,000 of adults’ abilities to read, write, speak, and understand the ...

Luna Community College's Adult Education program is providing a supportive pathway for adults seeking high school equivalency ...

I had exciting news for my students. I had found someone who could teach them to read. This was late in the aughts, when I had just begun working with adults who couldn’t read. I had no materials, no ...

In the most recent fiscal year that ended in June, 13,429 participants took part in Department of Youth and Community Development-funded adult literacy programs, a 26 percent drop from the year before ...

The Literacy Project in March hired new leadership for the organization’s Adult Literacy sector. Marion Martin, who came to Eagle County from Pennsylvania, brings extensive experience in education and ...

In a survey of 31 countries, adult literacy largely stagnated or declined in the last decade, falling notably in the United States, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development found. And ...

The Redlands Adult Literacy Program relies on its volunteers to provide one-on-one tutoring to adults interested in improving their reading and writing. Literacy volunteers also support computer ...