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JMU LANDS MORE FUNDS FOR ADULT LITERACY FROM VERIZON | |
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From: Media Relations HARRISONBURG — Thousands of lower-skilled adult workers throughout Virginia stand to benefit from a $40,000 gift James Madison University's Workforce Improvement Network received today.The donation from Verizon Communications, formed by the merger of Bell Atlantic and GTE, will be used to continue helping adult learners through a program begun in 1998 as JMU/GTE Links Virginia for Literacy. Diane Foucar-Szocki, director of the JMU Workforce Improvement Network, said that plans call for the following distribution of funds: l $30,000 for continued development and rollout of the Workforce Development Campus, which is online courses aimed at training work-force educators on how to provide basic skills training; l $5,000 to complete Valley Connector, a searchable electronic directory designed to help people pinpoint places they can go to get specialized training; and, l $5,000 to help fund an impact-assessment study of the Rosetta Stone language-acquisition software for English-as-a-second-language students conducted by JMU education Assistant Professor Solange Lopes-Murphy. "Nearly 20 percent of adult Virginians function at Level I or below on the National Assessment of Literacy Study, according to the National Institute for Literacy," Foucar-Szocki said. "With today's full-employment economy, this means that the majority of these individuals are working and would benefit from workplace education programs." For more information, contact Dr. Diane Foucar-Szocki, Workforce Improvement Network director, at (540) 568-6794, or by e-mail at foucardl@jmu.edu. |
 
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