Monthly Archives: January 2011

TORONTO, ON: Grade Learning, Ontario’s largest full-service education provider announces the first ever Grade Book Drive which helps support the literacy efforts of Better World Books (BWB) – a for-profit social enterprise that collects books and sells them online to fund literacy initiatives worldwide. To date, BWB has sold 53 million books and generated over $9 million in funding.

TORONTO, ON: Paralympic Sledge Hockey Gold Medalist, Paul Rosen, is hitting the road to let the public know what it’s like to go back to school at 50. The three-time Paralympian, who has struggled with literacy for his entire life, recently went back to school at Grade Learning, Ontario’s largest full-service education provider. The goal: improving his elementary school level reading and writing. Today, just four months after starting class, Paul now reads at a high school level as he advanced four grade levels in his reading vocabulary and two grade levels in spelling.