Literacy - The Temple News

PASCEP uses an app to fight local and national illiteracy

26 September 2017 Alaina DeLeone

PASCEP will be one of the Philadelphia testing sites for mobile applications that help increase literacy.

Nuala Cabral, a 2010 Temple alumna, spearheads the nonprofit FAAN Mail. | Darragh Friedman TTN

Nonprofit teaches lessons in media

07 October 2013 Sharnita Midgett

Nuala Cabral, a Temple alum, creates her own nonprofit “media literacy project.”

Children gain voice through literacy

17 October 2011 Priscilla Ward

Mighty Writers and the Philadelphia Youth Poetry Movement aim to improve literacy rates in the city. Organizations across Philadelphia are helping youth combat the literacy crisis in new and refreshing ways. The Philadelphia Youth Poetry

City Literate

27 January 2009 Editorial Board

Philly’s abysmal illiteracy rate may be taken on by the city’s volunteer program.

Literacy rates challenge Philadelphia

20 January 2009

More than 20 percent of Philadelphia adults lack basic literacy skills. The problem encourages unemployment and homelessness.