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TORONTO, ON: Paul Rosen continued his inspiring tour with a large speaking engagement in Mississauga at the Living Arts Centre. This free event brought together a wide range of Mississauga residents and agencies including those involved in employment services and training and education.

TORONTO, ON: The most recent stop on Paul Rosen’s speaking tour was at Martingrove Collegiate Institute in Etobicoke. There, Paul spoke to close to 1000 high school students about his life long struggle with literacy. From his triumph as a paralympic athelete to his final confrontation with low level literacy, Paul demonstrated that anything is possible if you believe in yourself and never give up.
With his ultimate achievement – improving his ability to read and write- Paul reinforced the importance of education.

TORONTO, ON: Grade Learning, Ontario’s largest full-service education provider, announces Shire Sabtow as the first recipient of a $5,000 Grade Futures Scholarship. In 2010, Grade Learning launched the Grade Futures Scholarship Fund, which increases by $10 each time a social media user “likes” Grade Learning’s Facebook page. For each “Like”, $10 is donated to the Fund, allowing social media users the chance to give the gift of education with the click of a mouse. Each time an additional 500 “Likes” are achieved, another $5,000 scholarship is awarded.

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.

TORONTO, ON: A recent study released by the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO) shows that nearly 40 per cent of Ontario colleges have no programs in place to assess student literacy and that many students risk not completing their programs due to language deficits. Grade Learning, Ontario’s largest full-service education provider, takes pride in its assessment and literacy programs and supports the recommendations made by the HEQCO’s study.