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United for Literacy (French: Littératie Ensemble) a Canadian literacy organization established in 1899 by Alfred Fitzpatrick. It was founded as the Reading Camp Association and was renamed Frontier College in 1919. [1] In 2022, Frontier College changed its name to United for Literacy.
In the 1970s, organizations like the Canadian Association for Adult Education believed that one had to complete the 8th grade to achieve functional literacy. Examination of 1976 census data found that among Canadians age 15 or over, 4,376,655, or 28.4%, reported a level of schooling of less than grade 9 and were thus deemed not functionally ...
Canadian Indigenous Languages and Literacy Development Institute (CILLDI) - an intensive annual "summer school for Indigenous language activists, speakers, linguists, and teachers" - hosted at the University of Alberta, Edmonton [7] - is a "multicultural, cross-linguistic, interdisciplinary, inter-regional, inter-generational" initiative. [8]
The ACCC’s programs provide the skills its students need to obtain employment at a cost-per-student from $10 to $25 per month. [4] Once employed, students support themselves and their families (on average, 6 family members per student), give back to their communities and participate in the reconstruction of Afghanistan.
Media Literacy Week [9] is a national campaign annually hosted each October by MediaSmarts and the Canadian Teachers' Federation to promote digital media literacy, with activities and events taking place in classrooms, libraries, museums, and community groups through over 140 collaborating organizations.
A set of benchmarks for literacy learners who have English as a second language was first developed in 1996 and revised in 2000 by the Government of Manitoba. Another revision of the literacy benchmarks was done in fiscal 2013/2014 and was expected to be released once validation was complete in 2014. [2]
In 2012, in the Canadian Pensioners Concerned newsletter Viewpoint, John Zada writes that – working in partnership with Hoopoe Books – in the first eight years of ICE's operations (2004–2012), the charity had purchased and “donated over 82,000 books to more than 80 non-profit literacy groups in Canada,” [3] and donated “tens of ...
In the early 1990s, the organization began piloting family literacy programs in addition to their adult literacy programming. [7] In 2005, the Edmonton Journal reported that the Centre for Family Literacy was the recipient of the Canada Post Literary Award "for its community leadership."