Tag Archive: Reading

TLC Reading, Writing & Math Courses Bridge Skills Gap to College

May 7, 2023

The Learning Center (TLC) at East Central College has free courses available to help students bridge the gap between high school and college, or assists those returning to college after an extended period. The Summer Bridge courses are non-credit sessions available at TLC designed to close the skills gap high school curriculum and the beginning… View Article

Adult Education and Literacy Program Awarded National Grant

May 15, 2019

The Dollar General Literacy Foundation has awarded the East Central College Foundation, working on behalf of the ECC Adult Education and Literacy Program, a $10,000 grant to support its mission in 2019. This local grant award is part of more than $8.3 million in grants awarded to nearly 1,000 schools, nonprofits and organizations across the… View Article

Learning to Read at 20–An Adult Education and Literacy Success Story

February 21, 2017

It was July of 2015 when Jesse Berry-McKinnon first walked into an East Central College Adult Education and Literacy (AEL) classroom. He was 20 years old at the time, and he had been unsuccessfully homeschooled. “He told me that he could barely write letters and numbers and he couldn’t read. He could only write part… View Article