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National Adult Education and Family Literacy Week 2011
Literacy Texas encourages you to promote Adult Education and Family Literacy Week (September 12 -18, 2011), by contacting your local media and representatives. This is your opportunity to provide information that will create awareness of the importance of improving literacy among adults in Texas. It is essential in the national jobs conversation that adult learners do not get left out. You can champion the issue by telling the story that your students are more likely to suffer the economic ravages of unemployment disproportionately as compared to other more educated groups. Our leaders and decision makers need to understand that adult education is one of the best investments they can make if they want to increase employment both short-term and long-term.
Below are resources available to help you articulate your messaging.
Building Momentum and Raising Awareness: What You Can Do from the National Coalition For Literacy
Adult Education and Family Literacy Week Activities from ProLiteracy:
· Contact your local news media using the template on the importance of adult literacy and basic education
· Work with a library to sponsor a parent and child “read together” day. Display posters in the library that list adult literacy facts and explain the importance of parents reading to their children
· Create an “adult literacy fact sheet” for your community, including the percentage of adults in the lowest literacy levels, those without high school diplomas, and more. If you can, include information on how low adult literacy rates affect your community/state’s unemployment rates, public assistance budgets, and more. Share this information with local news media, community leaders, and the general public through your website
· Write a letter to the editor about the issue of adult literacy in your state/community and talk about what your program does to address the issue. Include student success stories
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Resources and ideas to help you prepare to raise awareness during National Adult Education and Family Literacy Week 2011 (Sept. 12 - Sept. 18) are available at the National Coalition for Literacy.
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