TLC In the News

Articles and stories about The Literacy Center

Click on the titles below to read news stories, courtesy of the Arizona Daily Sun, about ways
The Literacy Center serves the community by helping adults improve their literacy skills.

Inmate Illiteracy Driving Recidivism
January 27, 2012. The Literacy Center is mounting a program, with the cooperation of the county jail, to teach inmates the basic reading skills that are essential in a functional society.

A Country and Western Chanteuse
January 14, 2012. Literacy Center tutor Lori Crowe's story is not uncommon for children growing up in domestic violence, victims of abuse, and young men and women returning from Iraq and Afghanistan

Ann Beck's Reverse Retirement Gift
May 7, 2011. When Ann Beck retires later this month from Literacy Volunteers of Coconino County, she won't be getting a gold watch.

 

More articles and local literacy news.

Dew Drops, Teardrops, Diamonds and Flagstaff
December 14, 2011. A winter story by Tam Nguyen, a Master Gardener and a student at NAU and The Literacy Center.

A Nepalese Story by Chheten Tamang
June 3, 2011. My native language was not written down. We only spoke it. I never read it.