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Professional Development Organizations
The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy
www.barbarabushfoundation.com/
This mission of the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy: to establish literacy as a value in every family in America, by helping every family in the nation understand that the home is the child's first school, that the parent is the child's first teacher, and that reading is the child's first subject; and to break the cycle of intergenerational illiteracy, by supporting the development of family literacy programs where parents and children can learn and read together.
Even Start Family Literacy
www.evenstart.org/index.html
Welcome to The Even Start Family Literacy Home Page, A Holistic Approach to Family Literacy. Sponsored by the National EvenStart Association.
Laubach Literacy
www.laubach.org/
Founded in 1955 by literacy pioneer Frank C. Laubach, Laubach Literacy is a nonprofit educational corporation dedicated to helping adults of all ages improve their lives and their communities by learning reading, writing, math and problem-solving skills. Laubach sponsors more than 1,000 literacy programs throughout the United States and 68 partner programs in 34 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.
Literacy Online
litserver.literacy.upenn.edu/ncal/index.html
The mission of the National Center on Adult Literacy (NCAL) is to improve understanding of adult learners and their leaning, foster innovation and increase effectiveness in adult basic education and literacy work, and expand access to information and build capacity for adult literacy service provision.
Literacy Volunteers of America, Inc.
www.literacyvolunteers.org/home/
Literacy Volunteers of America, Inc. (LVA) is a national, not-for-profit educational organization, operated by professionals, which delivers tutoring services through a network of more than 50,000 volunteers nationwide.
National Center for Family Literacy
www.famlit.org/
The National Center for Family Literacy is a nonprofit educational organization with 501(c)(3) status headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky. It was founded in 1989 through a grant from the William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust and has as its mission the advancement and support of family literacy services for millions of families across the United States through programming, training, research, advocacy, and dissemination of information about family literacy.
National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL)
gseweb.harvard.edu/~ncsall/
The goal of the National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL) is to conduct the reasearch, development, evaluation and dissemination needed to build effective, cost-effecient adult learning anf literacy programs. The theme that unifies the research and dissemination strategies of NCSALL's five-year effort is improvement of the quality of practice in educational programs that serve adult learners.
National Institute for Literacy
novel.nifl.gov
NIFL was created as a part of the 1991 Literacy Act by a bipartisan Congressional coalition to be the hub of national literacy efforts. By serving as a resource for the literacy community, the Institute assists in addressing urgent national priorities-- upgrading the workforce, reducing welfare dependency, raising the standard of living, and creating safer communities.
U.S. Department of Education
www.ed.gov
Visited each week by thousands of educators, policy makers, parents, students, researchers and Ohio citizens with a stake in education. They are promoting Partnership for Family Involvement in Education (http://pfie.ed.gov) which strives to achieve family involvement int he child's learning at school and at home and to use family, school and community partnerships to strengthen schools and improve student achievement.
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