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On the Web
- Exploring Adult Literacy - Evolving electronic peer-reviewed journal intended for adult literacy practitioners in adult basic education, family literacy and workplace literacy. Provides practical, but research-based short articles on new ideas in the field as well as position papers, lesson plans, reviews, and an interactive forum for adult literacy providers.
- Maryland Adult Literacy Resource Center - Maryland Adult Literacy Resource Center: resources and information for adult literacy providers and students in Maryland.
- Literacy Online - Literacy Online is cosponsored by the International Literacy Institute and the National Center on Adult Literacy, and hosted at the University of Pennsylvania. Literacy Online is dedicated to providing useful information concerning literacy for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners worldwide.
- National Assessments of Adult Literacy - Provides statistics and figures on adult literacy rates, and current as well as projected trends in literacy education.
- National Adult Literacy Agency - Ireland's national adult literacy site with links to resources, local contacts, literacy tools, press releases, and notices for conferences, publications and related concerns.
- Nebraska Literacy - One of 12 state resource centers that make up the Midwest Adult Literacy Information System. (With support from the National Institute for Literacy).
- Technology used in Adult Literacy Programs - This is a paper on how technology is affecting adult literacy programs.
- Greater Pittsburgh Literacy Council - Nonprofit agency providing literacy programs for adults and out-of-school young adults in western Pennsylvania.
- Richardson Adult Literacy Center - Richardson Texas Adult Literacy Center uses the Laubach method of teaching English as a second language. Includes tips for tutors.
- Adult Literacy and Technology Network - A national effort dedicated to finding solutions for using technology to enhance adult literacy.
Wikipedia Articles
- The Westcoast Reader - The Westcoast Reader is an award-winning literacy newspaper for beginning adult readers in British Columbia, Canada. Its purpose is to help English as a second language (ESL) and adult literacy learners develop reading skills, while providing interesting and relevant information with an adult focus.
- Net Literacy - Net Literacy is an Indianapolis based, "youth-empowered," 501(c)non-profit organization that promotes computer and Internet literacy throughout communities. While the program is completely youth-run, many of the volunteers benefit from the adult mentoring the organization provides.
- Florida Literacy Coalition, Inc. - Established in 1985, the Florida Literacy Coalition (FLC) is a non-profit organization that promotes, supports and advocates for the effective delivery of quality adult and family literacy services in the state of Florida.
- Open Door Series - The Open Door series is an adult literacy series of novellas by well-known Irish authors, and was launched in the mid-nineties by Irish publisher New Island, and author Patricia Scanlan. Scanlan had spent some time working in public libraries in Dublin before she became a full-time writer, and was acutely aware of ...
- Health literacy - The young and multidisciplinary field of health literacy emerged from two expert groups; physicians and other health providers and health educators, and Adult Basic Education (ABE) and English as Second Language (ESL) practitioners. Physicians are a source of groundbreaking patient comprehension and compliance studies.