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US Adults Need Stronger Skills to Thrive in a Changing World
The new PIAAC Survey of Adult Skills data indicates 60 million US adults read at the lowest levels, while 72 million are at the lowest levels for numeracy.
Adult Literacy Programs Receive Millions through Yield Giving
Four ProLiteracy member programs were among the recipients of million dollar awards from billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott's Yield Giving organization.
Our New Partnership Supports Access to Literacy in Urban Communities
We are proud to announce that we have partnered with the Urban Alliance for Adult Literacy to promote nationwide information sharing and joint projects.
ProLiteracy Presents First Award for Adult Literacy Research
ProLiteracy awarded a group of researchers our inaugural Dollar General Research to Practice Award for their paper The Effects of an Adult Literacy App on Word Decoding, published in 2023 in our Adult Literacy Education research journal.
Popular ESL Author’s ‘Long Stories Short’ Builds Reading and Language Connections
The new ESL series from New Readers Press uses entertaining stories as the basis to teach vocabulary, grammar, spelling, syntax, pronunciation, and more.
Program’s GED Math Bootcamp Positions Students to Pass
Project Learn of Summit County, in Akron, OH, uses National Book Fund gran to support its math bootcamp program to help students earn GED credential
