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The writing is on the wall for child literacy
By Eleanor McClorey Child literacy is not a priority on the political or public agenda. This must change, writes Eleanor McClorey IT’S time to spell it out — Ireland has a child literacy emergency. One afternoon last month four children from Ballymun were collected from…
Author: Irish Examiner
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Put Reading Power First says youngballymun
We have a national literacy emergency as well as an economic emergency – and one won’t be fixed without the other – is the message of youngballymun, making its election call to all political parties to put reading power first. Launching its 2011 Literacy Manifesto,…
Author: Youngballymun
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Programme Identifies How to Improve Children’s Literacy in Disadvantaged Communities
A major research programme has identified an effective approach to improve children’s literacy in disadvantaged communities – and recommended this approach become available to other communities wanting to improve early childhood literacy. Launching the Evaluation Report of Doodle Den, a children’s literacy programme run in…
Author: Childhood Development Initiative
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Challenge to Our Workforce: Young Adults and Low Literacy
Original Source by Peter Kleinbard Nearly 70% of youth who drop out of school have very poor literacy and other core skills. Indeed, this is the primary reason why they leave school. Yet most funding for dropouts is targeted to those who are most job…
Author: New York Nonprofit Press
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Intensive after school programme aims to improve childhood literacy
The Tallaght West Childhood Development Initiative (TWCDI) runs an intensive after school programme, Doodle Den that aims to improve childhood literacy in Tallaght West, a Dublin suburb. Listen to the interview with children taking part in the Doodle Den programme >>(TWCDI segment starts at 1:39:45)…
Author: RTE Radio 1
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Launch of Big Dreams, a family book about reading
youngballymun is a complex community change initiative that is working to improve the learning and well-being outcomes for all children and young people in Ballymun. Adopting a life-cycle approach from pregnancy and infancy and right through to early adulthood, youngballymun supports the integration of evidence-based…
Author: youngballymun
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Pupils show they have the write stuff
Efforts to increase child literacy has experts flocking to Ballymun, writes Gabrielle Monaghan Youngballymun and Barnardos are Atlantic grantees. Across the road from the Virgin Mary Girls’ National School, some of Ballymun’s last tower blocks stand half-empty. Roddy Doyle may have immortalised them in The…
Author: The Sunday Times (London)
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Gaining a Voice After School
Why After-School Programs Are a Powerful Resource for English-Language Learners By Claudia Weisburd At the age of 14, Miguel, a recent immigrant from Mexico, is struggling to acclimate to a new school, language, and culture while also dealing with the social and developmental challenges of…
Author: Education Week
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National assessment results is postponed again
By Retha Grobbelaar The delay in the release of the annual national assessment results means the country is “losing time” to fix numeracy and literacy problems in schools, NGO Equal Education said yesterday. Almost four months after about 6.5 million pupils from Grade 2 to…
Author: Times Live
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The Global Financial Crisis and Philanthropy: Altering Course in a Perfect Storm
The roots of the global financial crisis, and the paths out of it, are matters for debate. But what no one disputes is that the landscape in which foundations like Atlantic are working has been dramatically altered, and likely will be for some time to…
Author: Gara LaMarche