Literacy Education

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The Literacy and Parenting Skills (LAPS) program is a family literacy initiative coordinated by the Further Education Society of Alberta (FESA). It was developed out of an identified need to reach at-risk parents, improve literacy skills, offer strategies to help parents read more with their children, provide parenting education, and assist adults with the transition to further education.

Among the greatest rewards of the Reading Rainbow legacy are family literacy projects, according to Twila Liggett. It comes as no surprise that the founder and co-executive producer of the twenty-time Emmy-award-winning show, Reading Rainbow is an educator and avid reader herself. Dr. Twila Liggett was born to teach.

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There is now an urgent need to provide a coordinated national financial literacy programme to adequately disseminate critical information throughout all sectors of the Jamaican society. I often wonder why I learnt so many subjects in school that later proved irrelevant to my life, yet a crucial topic such as money management was never addressed in my primary to tertiary education.

It is an appalling fact that approximately 25% of America's adult population is functionally illiterate! These are figures compiled by the government. What is functionally illiterate? If a person is unable to fill out a form, or job application without help, they are considered to be functionally illiterate.

You've probably heard the term "Financial Literacy." Do you know what it means? That is a bit of a problem because it means different things to different people. You might have heard the term used to explain why homeowners got mortgages they couldn't pay back; or the term might have been used to explain why people end up with overwhelming credit card debt. In both of these cases you would have heard about "LOW Financial Literacy." This article explains Financial Literacy as the skill set you need to deal with money and financial matters in your life.