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Student Success StoriesIn the U.S. and developing countries around the world, adults enroll in basic literacy and education classes to improve their reading, writing, math, and computer and technology skills so they can support themselves, be healthier, support their children’s educations, and take part in their communities. In the U.S.
There are no typical adult literacy or English-as-a-second-language (ESL) students—they are of all ages and races, they are women and men, and they come from all economic and social backgrounds. They may have completed the K-12 education system, or they may have left before graduation without acquiring skills for one of several reasons—a childhood illness that kept them from school, an undiagnosed learning disability, domestic abuse that distracted them from lessons, frequent changes in schools, or the need to leave school to work. ESL students may be literate in their native languages, or unable to read and write at all. Here are a few of their stories… Marten Griego Rosetta Harper Del Kennedy Donell McCoy
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