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Barbara Bush in the White House Library. With support from the Dollar General Literacy Foundation, the Barbara Bush Foundation Adult Literacy XPRIZE was held during 2015 to 2019. The $7 million prize purse challenged teams to develop working mobile apps within one year that result in the greatest increase to adult learner literacy skills. [24] [25]
“ A recent analysis reported by the Barbara Bush Foundation noted that getting all US adults to this critical benchmark (Level 3) of literacy proficiency would produce an additional 2.2 trillion ...
This article may need to be rewritten to comply with Wikipedia's quality standards, as article. You can help. The talk page may contain suggestions. (June 2024) First Lady Barbara Bush with New York City school children at the UNESCO International Literacy Day celebration in 1989 (the same year that the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy was launched) Adult literacy in the United ...
In partnership with the Barbara Bush Foundation, The National Center for Families Learning and Reading Is Fundamental, the Dollar General Literacy Foundation has been investing in literacy and ...
Barbara Bush (née Pierce; June 8, 1925 – April 17, 2018) was First Lady of the United States from 1989 to 1993, as the wife of the 41st president of the United States, George H. W. Bush. Previously, she had been Second Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989, and founded the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy.
She later started the nonprofit the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy, which advocates for helping parents and their children learn the basic educational skills of reading and writing.
Gallup principal economist Jonathan Rothwell assessed results collected by PIAAC during 2012 - 2017 for a 2020 economic impact analysis [9] commissioned by the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy, [10] surmising that, of the 33 OECD nations surveyed, the U.S. had placed sixteenth for literacy, with about half of Americans surveyed, aged ...
TikTok star Oliver James, with more than 270,000 followers, was in West Palm Beach for an event with the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy.