Publishers Weekly, November 16th, 1990
S & S Launches Literacy at Work Program
Simon & Schuster and the National Alliance of Business, which was founded in 1968 to link businesses with education, labor, government and civic groups in an effort to help the disadvantaged gain employment, have joined forces to develop literacy on the job.
The centerpiece of the partnership is Literacy at Work: The Workbook for Program Developers, a new handbook published by Simon & Schuster Workplace Resources. It focuses on the "functional context" approach, originally developed by the U.S. military, which provides literacy instruction by using a...
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