DC LEARNs and the DC Public Library Celebrate Adult Education and Family Literacy Week
DC LEARNs Redesigned Web site Encourages District Residents to Get Involved and New Adult Literacy Blog Hosts Book Giveaway Contest
10.17.2009 – On October 6th, 2009, the House of Representatives declared October 18-23 Adult Education and Family Literacy Week, encouraging people across the United States to support programs to assist those in need of adult education and family literacy programs. Adult education programs provide classes and tutoring in basic literacy, ESL, and GED preparation.
DC LEARNs and the Adult Literacy Resource Center (ALRC) of the D.C. Public Library are honoring Adult Education and Family Literacy Week by formally announcing the launch of a redesigned DC LEARNs Web site (http://www.dclearns.org), which now includes a new D.C. adult literacy blog. The blog will serve as a vehicle to enhance public awareness of the important role of adult education—and the connections between adult literacy and other issues, such as public health, housing, and safety.
DC LEARNs and the ALRC are encouraging people to visit the blog during Adult Education and Family Literacy Week with a book giveaway contest on the blog. The books, which are all by and/or about adult learners, include: The Teacher Who Couldn't Read by John Corcoran, Life is So Good by George Dawson and Richard Glaubman, Life is Not a Fairytale by Fantasia Barrino, and Push, a novel by Sapphire.
Beginning Monday, October 19th, visitors to the blog will have a chance to win a copy of one of these books by placing a comment on that day’s post. Twenty winners will be randomly chosen from the commenters each day.
The blog will feature stories about adult learners, volunteers, adult education program staff, and adult education programs. It will also feature posts about adult literacy in general and how it is related to other social issues and opportunities for the public to help.
Members of the blogging team will include Stacey Smith, a social worker at Bread for the City, a social service agency which helps people with low incomes and those who are homeless who will be blogging about adult literacy and employment; and Karyn Pomerantz, who works at George Washington University’s School of Health and Human Services, who will blog about health literacy.
The blog will also give people a chance to help out by sharing blog posts and videos on the blog to let other people know about the need to support adult education programs.
Readers will also be invited to fan the library's adult literacy Facebook fan page (http://www.facebook.com/adultliteracy), and to follow the libraries twitter feed so that they can also share content posted on this site as well.
The US House of Representatives passed H.Res.707 on October 6th, designating Adult Education and Family Literacy Week for the week of October 18, 2009, by a vote of 412-0.
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- On October 6th, 2009, the House of Representatives declared October 18-23 Adult Education and Family Literacy Week, encouraging people across the United States to support programs to assist those in need of adult education and family literacy programs.
- DC LEARNs and the Adult Literacy Resource Center (ALRC) of the D.C. Public Library are honoring Adult Education and Family Literacy Week by formally announcing the launch of a redesigned DC LEARNs Web site (http://www.dclearns.org), which now includes a new D.C. adult literacy blog.
- The blog will feature stories about adult learners, volunteers, adult education program staff, and adult education programs.
- DC LEARNs and the ALRC are encouraging people to visit the blog during Adult Education and Family Literacy Week with a book giveaway contest on the blog.
- The books, which are all by and/or about adult learners, include: The Teacher Who Couldn't Read by John Corcoran, Life is So Good by George Dawson and Richard Glaubman, Life is Not a Fairytale by Fantasia Barrino, and Push, a novel by Sapphire.
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