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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Teach the World to Read Initiative Launched at FutureMidwest Conference Detroit, MI – April 29, 2011 – FutureMidwest, now in its third year as the premiere conference highlighting the growth of a new digital Detroit, was the gathering place and launching pad for an ambitious new literacy project.  Based on techniques derived from the latest neuroscience findings, Teach

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JCF gives away free computers to students we tutor and our favorite thing is seeing the joy on the children's faces when they receive their own (and usually the family's first) computer! Parents are thrilled that their kids will improve reading and that they will have a technology center at home! Here are pics from our most recent distribution in LA ...  Happy after having their reading

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John Corcoran weighs in on the 'Waiting for Superman' debate in today's San Diego Union Tribune. It’s true a teacher can never really succeed, Without teaching their student to read. A student can never ever really succeed, Until a student knows how to read. A fact no one should ever concede, That we can and need to learn to read. – An excerpt from “Time to Turn the Table,” a poem by

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I’ve always had a love for books. My parents always read to me before bed, took me to the library, got used books from library sales and let us order from the ever popular school book order forms so we’d always have something new and fun to read. With the consistent exposure to new worlds through books, two older sisters that always made me the student when playing school, as well as a love for

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An email sent to our Program Director from a tutor in Los Angeles: Hi All,Just thought you might need a boost and would like to hear a story as to why we do this. Nathalie M. from LA is in 6th grade this year. I tutored her last year on Reading Plus. I just got off the phone with her father. He told me that she was picked out of all the kids at her school to go to a school for gifted students

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Pictures below from the San Diego Council on Literacy Chairman's Circle Reception. Mrs. Audrey Geisel, (the late Dr. Seuss' wife) a strong supporter and generous donor to the cause of literacy, previously served on the SDCOL Board of Directors with John Corcoran. Kathy Corcoran meeting Mrs. GeiselKayla Mertes meeting Mrs. Geisel Kayla Mertes and John Corcoran

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Click here to LISTEN to the founder of the Teaching Crusade, Nikki McDevitt, interview John Corcoran.

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Click here for the John Corcoran Foundation's Annual Report.

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United Literacy, a non-profit organization, provides resources and support to adult literacy learners in the United States. They aim to make literacy education accessible and worthwhile for adult learners.Their goal is to provide learners with comprehensive information on literacy organizations and programs in their communities. After a learner has taken the first step of admitting they need to

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"Reading is a ladder out of poverty. It is probably one of the best anti-poverty, anti-deprivation, anti-crime, anti-vandalism policies you can think of."Prime Minister Gordon Brown, on the launch of the National Year of Reading, 2008

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The purpose of this list is to provide an on-going professional development forum where literacy practitioners, adult educators, administrators, and researchers, as well as others with a stake or interest in serving adults with learning disabilities can have a targeted discussion in the area of literacy and learning disabilities. Feel free to join at www.nifl.gov!Below is one of my recent posts (

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On March 6th, I received a letter from The Moth, a non-profit storytelling organization in New York City. The letter was an invitation to tell my story for ten minutes along with five others. The stories are the storyteller’s own, true experiences, told without notes, in an intimate theatre setting of 300 people. Some storytellers have included Frank McCourt, Ethan Hawke, an astronaut, a voodoo

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New York PostBarack Obama has promised to "guarantee every American an affordable, world-class, life- long, top-notch education, from early childhood to high school - from college to on-the-job training." To make good on that, the president-elect will have to confront a system that failed to teach me and millions of others to read - a system that institutionalizes illiteracy in our schools. Sixty

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