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Magazine World News North America/Australasia USA: Over a million immigrant families have now participated in English language family literacy programs to enable their integration in society.
Magazine World News North America/Australasia USA: Over a million immigrant families have now participated in English language family literacy programs to enable their integration in society.
| USA: Over a million immigrant families have now participated in English language family literacy programs to enable their integration in society. |
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| News - North America/Australasia | |
| Written by Manager | |
| Tuesday, 17 March 2009 12:33 | |
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Sharon Darling, the founder and president of the non-profit National Center for Family Literacy (NCFL), says that the integration of immigrant families has been strengthened by a program which allows parents to sit in school and learn alongside their children. In the last 20 years, over a million families have benefited from this program. The Toyota Family Literacy Program was created in 2003, and now works in 75 elementary schools in 25 communities across the U.S. Ms Darling explains that parents’ educational and socio-economic levels affect their children’s academic success, and nearly 34 million Americans (14%) of the total population, suffer from English literacy problems. Also, about 50% of the 2 million immigrants arriving into the U.S. each year lack a high school education and have poor English-language skills. For the full story from the Examiner, see http://www.examiner.com/x-1393-Education-Improvement-Examiner~y2009m2d28-Should-schools-teach-English-to-immigrant-parents
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| Last Updated on Tuesday, 24 March 2009 13:48 |