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  1. Canadian Authors Association
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    Resource Type: Organization
  2. Canadian Council on Learning
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    Resource Type: Organization
  3. Centennial College
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    Resource Type: Organization
  4. Class Warfare
    The Assault on Canada's School

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    The authors show that the attack on schools has been mounted by representatives of big business who stand to make a fortune by privatizing education, aided by the religious right, who want to control what is taught -- and not taught -- in our schools.
  5. Dr. Debby Chesnie Cooper, Educational and Developmental Psychologist
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    Resource Type: Organization
  6. A Directory of Literacy and Adult Basic Education Programs in Ontario
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
  7. Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario
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    Resource Type: Organization
  8. Frontier College
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    Resource Type: Organization
  9. Functional illiteracy problem alarming across age groups, regions, educated
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1987
  10. A Guide to the Photographic Identification of Individual Whales Based on Natural & Acquired Markings
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
  11. The History of Costa Rica
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    An overview of Costa Rican history with an emphasis on how Costa Ricans have been able to make their own history, "though they do not make it just as they choose."
  12. A History of News
    From the Drum to the Satellite

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
  13. Kumon Math & Reading Centres
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    Resource Type: Organization
  14. Loyalist College of Applied Arts and Technology
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    Resource Type: Organization
  15. Marguerite has come a long way
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1984
    Literacy student writes her own story.
  16. Networks of Centres of Excellence of Canada
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    Resource Type: Organization
  17. A People's History of the World
    From the Stone Age to the New Millennium

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative or ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
  18. The Secret Secret
    Of Wikileaks and Literacy

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    Only those with proper clearances can participate in discussions that affect significant aspects of our lives. Certain technological achievements, our collective ethical decisions (torture, secret prisons, air strikes, etc.), our collective behavior towards other nations and peoples (foreign policy discussions) and more are often obscured by state secrecy. Like the medieval clergy, those holding classified clearances are the sole legitimate interpreters of the 'really important' knowledge. In effect, they are a caste that guides our political and technological cosmologies.
  19. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
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    Resource Type: Organization
  20. Teaching adults to read
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1984
    Becoming literate is an important way for people to gain more control and power over their lives.
  21. The Canada Science and Technology Museum recognizes the 200th anniversary of the birth of Louis Braille
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    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    To commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Louis Braille, the Canada Science and Technology Museum (CSTM), in collaboration with CNIB, presents an exhibition and a guided tour which will be offered throughout 2009.
  22. The Training Trap
    Ideology, Training and the Labour Market

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1995
    A collection of essays examines changes in the Canadian labour market with respect to education, training, and unemployment.
  23. The Uses of Literacy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1957
    In this partly autobiographical book Hoggart observes the loss of an authentic popular culture and denounces the imposition of mass culture by the culture industries.
  24. Women#s work devalued
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1991
    An examination of the global failure to recognize the value of women's work.

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