The National Institute for Literacy, a federal agency, provides leadership on literacy issues, including the improvement of reading instruction for children, youth, and adults.
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Learning To Achieve: A Review of the Research Literature on Serving Adults with Learning Disabilities
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The Webcast, Achieving Student Success: Transitions to Post-secondary Education, was broadcast on January 20 at 1 p.m. EST. and featured Daniel J. Miller (moderator), Jeff Fantine, Ellen Hewett, Julie Scoskie, and Ronna Spacone.
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The Institute will kick off its re-designed Assessment Strategies and Reading Profiles (ASRP) site with a series of four special online forums. The first, New Developments in Individual and Large-Scale Adult Literacy Assessments, begins Jan. 26.
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LINCS welcomes new subscribers to the Math and Numeracy Discussion List. Moderated by Brooke Denney, the list provides an on-going professional development forum for adult educators and others to discuss mathematics and numeracy in adult education and GED programs.
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In consultation with the U.S. Departments of Education, Labor, and Health and Human Services, the Institute serves as a national resource on current, comprehensive literacy research, practice and policy.
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