This week the Washington Literacy Center Advisory Center held its first meeting. Participants will assist WLC by building awareness and relevancy of WLC; help strengthen infrastructure, assist with building and strengthening partnerships, and help build capacity and support for WLC objectives, and advising the board and executive director. Committee members include, committee chair,Tina Fletcher, Fletcher Educational Solutions; Karen L. Williams, SBOE Ward 7; Markus Batchler,

With approximately 90,000 reported illiterate adults in the District of Columbia, The Great Courses and The Washington Literacy Center have teamed to solve critical obstacles to overcoming this challenge – access to training and educational resources designed to put people back to work. The Great Courses is making its entire catalog of more than 600 courses available to tutors and students of The Washington Literacy Center, which has been helping D.C. residents learn to read