National Center for Family Literacy
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The National Center for Family Literacy (NCFL) is an organization set up to create educational and economic opportunity for the most at-risk children and parents in the United States.
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[edit] Background
Since its founding in 1989, NCFL has been providing a lot of different services. ESL programs, professional development for practitioners who work in children's education, adult education, and related literacy fields can be given as examples. NCFL relies on the generous partnerships of many individuals, corporations and foundations to accomplish its mission. NCFL envisions a world where every child in every community receives the literacy support he or she needs from responsible, caring adults in order to succeed in school and in life.
[edit] Mission
The mission of the National Center for Family Literacy is to expand the number and improve the quality of family literacy services, creating educational and economic opportunity for parents and children at the lowest ends of the literacy and economic continua. In order to accomplish this, NCFL will work with administrators, policy makers, practitioners and funders to:
- Provide leadership for literacy development in families
- Promote policies at the national and state level to support literacy development in families
- Create and support systems that will help develop and sustain family literacy programs
- Design, develop and demonstrate new family literacy practices that address the needs of families in a changing social, demographic, economic and political landscape
- Deliver high-quality, dynamic, research-based professional development that includes training, technical assistance, and materials
- Identify and disseminate research to expand the knowledge base of family literacy
[edit] NCFL’S work can be described in five ways
1) Training and technical assistance for practitioners, administrators, and policy makers
2) Advocacy and policy development for the national family literacy movement
3) Research and evaluation to improve family literacy programs and examine long-term effects
4) Model program development to demonstrate the effectiveness of family literacy to communities
5) Information to educate the public and help practitioners learn from each other
[edit] Partners
National Center for Family Literacy partners with Better World Books.
