Literacy & Illiteracy

NEW YORK -- Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products, today announced that it collected and donated close to 1.2 million books for children...

Jewish Vocational Service of MetroWest, Inc.-Barnabas Health Workforce Partnership To Upgrade the Skills of 600 Incumbent Entry-Level Workers NEWARK, N.J. -- The Greater Newark Workforce Funders Collaborative today announced a one-year, $100,000 grant...

* "UnitedHealth HEROES" grants support local programs that engage children as learners and leaders of healthy habits * Community-focused, service-learning initiative by UnitedHealthcare and Youth Service America MINNETONKA, Minn. -- As childhood obesity...

As the second anniversary of the devastating Haiti earthquake approaches, the IKEA Foundation helps to get education back on track with Save the Children donation. In total the IKEA Foundation supports Haiti with...

Software Predicts Student Outcomes on Grade-Level Assessments and Prescribes Instructional Intensity to Improve Each Student's Performance BOSTON -- Literacy is the cornerstone of school achievement, and educators in Arkansas understand that improving overall...

Says Plan to Buy Nook E-readers Discriminates Against Blind Students BALTIMORE -- TheNational Federation of the Blind (NFB), the nation's leading advocate for access to technology by the blind, announced today that it...

Classroom Technology Solutions By Hatch Proven To Increase Math & Literacy Scores RALEIGH, N.C. -- Wake County Public School System (WCPSS) has partnered with Hatch[R], a leading provider of technology for early learning,...

The UPS Store and Marine Toys for Tots Foundation teamed up with "Arthur Christmas," an Aardman production for Sony Pictures Animation, to help deliver the gift of reading through a new book. Through...

Into the Universe of Technical Images By Vilém Flusser. Trans. Nancy Ann Roth (Electronic Mediations Vol. 32) University of Minnesota Press, 2011 224 pp./$60.00 (hb), $20.00 (sb) Does Writing Have a Future? By...

* Most people in the information industry understand the value that research alternatives to Google and Wikipedia can provide. However, the challenge is getting customers, particularly students, to see that as well. Credo...

The future will happen whether we want it to or not." With those words, Thomas Frey reminded attendees about what is yet to come during his keynote address at the Indiana Library Federation...

--McKenna Online Initiative Promotes Save the Children's U.S. Literacy Program-- MIDDLETON, Wis. -- This January, girls everywhere will flip for McKenna(TM), American Girl's new 2012 Girl of the Year([R]). A determined, energetic girl...

More than 100 Organizations Receive Funding to Support Programs Focused on Youth Development in 2011 FRAMINGHAM, Mass. -- Staples Foundation, a private foundation created by Staples, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLS), announced today it has...

Credit to the unions Thirteen credit unions organized an Islandwide food drive that raised 2,508 pounds of food and $38,642.63 to support the efforts of Island Harvest in Mineola and Long Island Cares...

Formal donation of new laptops and multi-media projectors taking place during celebration event on Jan. 5, 2012 at AVA Roasteria Conference and Catering Center BEAVERTON, Ore. -- The Beaverton Education Foundation, a public...

HMH demonstrates ongoing commitment to education and literacy by providing more than 3.5 million books to schools and organizations worldwide in 2011 BOSTON -- Global education leader Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) this morning...

Students in the Palmyra and West Jefferson Hills school districts improve their reading achievement levels on the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment OAKLAND, Calif. -- More than three-quarters of Pleasant Hills Middle School...

Funding will provide teachers with online and hands-on training, parents with family-literacy workshops, and kids with several high-quality free books PHILADELPHIA -- Children's Literacy Initiative (CLI) has received a $450,000 donation from Townsend...

Byline: The New Mexican Fund awards $40K in grants The Las Campanas Community Fund announced $40,000 in grants to nonprofits serving the Santa Fe area with services for hunger and homelessness, animal welfare,...