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<title>Lester Benton, Literacy Advance learner, speaks at The Celebration of Reading in The Houston Chronicle</title>
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<title>Literacy Advance awarded re-accreditation through ProLiteracy</title>
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<title>Scrabble and the City Promotes Literacy Advance</title>
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<title>Spellbound at Scrabble and the City!</title>
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<title>Spellbound at Scrabble and the City!</title>
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<title>Spellbound at Scrabble and the City!</title>
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<title>Libraries in four counties read one book</title>
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<title>Literacy Advance volunteer wins Halliburton Hometown Hero Award</title>
<link>http://www.literacyadvance.org/Latest_News_on_Literacy/News_Archive/Literacy_Advance_volunteer_wins_Halliburton_Hometown_Hero_Award/</link>
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<title>H-E-B launches Read 3 Program</title>
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<title>National Adult Education and Family Literacy Week 2011</title>
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<title>International Literacy Day celebrated worldwide</title>
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<title>Comcast offers digital lifeline to the disconnected</title>
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<title>Literacy Advance honors Comcast and John Bourke as "Champions of Literacy"</title>
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<title>Houston lags</title>
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<pubDate>2011-09-21T00:00:00</pubDate>
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<title>Financial literacy in schools</title>
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<title>Sharing a love of reading</title>
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<title>HLSR contributes to literacy</title>
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<title>Literacy key to excelling at work</title>
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<title>Adults work on literacy</title>
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<title>Adults work on literacy</title>
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<title>Edgewood Elementary Family Literacy Night</title>
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<pubDate>2011-10-03T00:00:00</pubDate>
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<title>North Coast libraries</title>
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<pubDate>2011-10-04T00:00:00</pubDate>
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<title>Apollo 20 schools</title>
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<pubDate>2011-10-06T00:00:00</pubDate>
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<title>Texas Young Professionals</title>
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<title>Take 10 for literacy</title>
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<title>Bilingual students do better</title>
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<title>Digital library aims to expand kids' media literacy</title>
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<title>Tablet computers for the world's poor children: Rice professor part of team</title>
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<title>Nuestra Palabra</title>
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<title>Game Changers for Literacy</title>
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<title>Libraries could use a helping hand</title>
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<title>Baker-Ripley Neighborhood Center</title>
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<title>Jay-Z lends voice, wisdom to Buffett's financial literacy cartoon</title>
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<title>Improving health literacy improves health</title>
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<title>Teaching students financial literacy key to solving economic woes</title>
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<title>HISD changes curriculum</title>
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<title>Teaching cultural literacy</title>
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<title>Financial Literacy Month begins</title>
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<title>Melanie Fisk new Executive Director</title>
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<title>Reading is Fundamental</title>
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<title>Houston to celebrate 3rd annual Citizenship Week</title>
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<title>How cycling set deprived Indian girls on journey</title>
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