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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.
Rita Marjorie Cox (born 1929 or 1930) is a storyteller, community leader and retired librarian based in Toronto, Ontario.As the head of the Parkdale branch of the Toronto Public Library, she pioneered services that promoted multiculturalism and literacy.
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Canada conducted its first literacy survey in 1987, which discovered that there were more than five million functionally illiterate adults in Canada, or 24 percent of the adult population. Statistics Canada then conducted three national and international literacy surveys of the adult population—the first one in 1989 was commissioned by the ...
In 2005, to further promote literacy and bridge building, Bartleman initiated a program to pair up Native and non-Native schools in Ontario and Nunavut, and set-up summer camps for literacy Archived 28 September 2018 at the Wayback Machine [8] development in five northern First Nations communities.
The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (OISE/UT) is Canada's only all-graduate institute of teaching, learning and research. [specify] It is located at 252 Bloor Street West in Toronto, Ontario, directly above the St. George subway station.
Olson moved to Toronto in 1966 and has taught there ever since. He is recognized as a world authority on the psychological implications of literacy, a topic on which he has published widely and lectured around the world. He is cross-appointed to University College, Toronto and the University of Toronto. Olson is married and has five children.
Jamil Jivani MP (born October 24, 1987) is a Canadian politician, radio host, and political commentator. [1] He is the founder of the Policing Literacy Initiative, [2] is a co-founder of Teachers Beyond the Classroom, [3] sat on the Premier's Council on Equality of Opportunity and was the Advocate for Community Opportunities for the Doug Ford government until 2022.