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The caller asked Mullis, director of Marshes of Glynn Libraries, if she had any ideas how to spend up to $25,000 in a way that would improve early literacy education in the community. The ...
Independent bookstores are the heartbeats of their communities. They provide culture and community, generate local jobs and sales tax revenue, promote literacy and education, champion and center ...
Room to Read is a global non-profit organization headquartered in San Francisco, California. [1] The organization focuses on working in collaboration with local communities, partner organizations and governments to improve literacy and gender equality in education.
The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy is a non-profit organization, headquartered in Washington D.C., supporting literacy as fundamental to the success of both families and the U.S. economy. The foundation promotes access to resources to build a stronger, more equitable America through literacy. [1]
Furthermore, literacy practices involve social regulation of text, i.e. who has access to it and who can produce it, and such practices are purposeful and embedded in broader social goals and cultural practices. Moreover, these practices change and new ones are frequently acquired through processes of informal learning and sense-making". [1]: 23
The roots of family literacy as an educational method come from the belief that “the parent is the child’s first teacher.” [1] Studies have demonstrated that adults who have a higher level of education tend to not only become productive citizens with enhanced social and economic capacity in society, [2] but their children are more likely to be successful in school. [3]