Literacy Press Releases

​​​​​Raising A Reader, a national nonprofit organization that provides resources and guidance for families to implement home-based literacy routines, has appointed Michelle Torgerson as its president and CEO. Torgerson will have oversight of the organization’s day-to-day operations and drive its…

Have you ever felt like you didn’t belong? Jesse is an intelligent, sensitive, yet socially awkward kid, who has a vivid imagination, a hard time fitting in, and desperately needs help making friends. Facing the added pressures of fifth grade, his whole…

Fifty years ago, the race to the moon was in full swing. Scientists and engineers were making huge leaps in technology to make good on President Kennedy’s promise of reaching the moon. As News-O-Matic covers the current events of 2018,…

LearningRx (www.LearningRx.com), the world’s largest personal brain training company, will host the free webinar, “How Effective Brain Training Impacts Reading and Comprehension” on Thursday, Dec. 14, at 12 p.m. (MST). Registration for the 50-minute webinar, which will be hosted by…

Wynotta Fowler, a proud Northern Alabama country girl, has completed her most recent book “Life Marks: Volume II”:  an enjoyable collection of poetry written by a woman who has seen the beauty of the world, and desires to show it…

The Annual 2017 Florida Authors and Publishers Association President’s Book Awards recognized God Gave Us Wings by Connie Rankin, in two categories including Religion as Gold, and Biography as a silver medal winner. Hosted by the Florida Authors and Publishers Association,…

AutoCognita, an EdTech innovator with a mission to change lives by delivering scalable literacy solutions to underserved adults and children around the world, today announced that it has been named as one of eight teams advancing in the $7M Barbara…

​​​Washington, D.C. – The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy is proud to announce the creation of Voices for Literacy. This newly formed collaborative brings together a coalition of five organizations that are committed to expanding opportunities for children and…

​LearningRx, the largest one-on-one brain training organization in the world, is pleased to announce the transition of the organization’s founder and CEO Dr. Ken Gibson to the position of Chairman of the Board. Effective immediately the new leadership of LearningRx is as…

Lightswitch Learning, a national K-12 publisher and sales organization, has acquired high-interest educational publisher, Scobre Press. A publisher of high-interest fiction and nonfiction devoted to serving striving readers, Scobre Press has a catalog of more than 100 fiction and nonfiction…

​​To help achieve all those New Year’s resolutions for 2017, the Los Angeles Scientology Community Center on South Vermont has announced a new program—tutoring and tutor training to empower anyone to accomplish their goals through quality education.  Full scholarships are available to…

​​​Students, teachers and parents will have fun preparing for the Inauguration with the recently released “The 45 Presidents,” the first historical activity book to include President-elect Donald J. Trump and facts such as which president kept an alligator in the…

Thousands of young readers voted for the News-O-Matic “Kid of the Year”. They elected Payton Alexander from Glen Rose, Texas, as the winner for 2016! Payton joins Malala Yousafzai (2012), Vivienne Harr (2013), Mo’Ne Davis (2014), and Madison Tevlin (2015)…

One-on-one brain training company LearningRx is sharing a list of “50 Military Discounts Just for Showing ID.” Although establishments across the country tend to offer some discount on Veterans Day, Memorial Day or Armed Forces Day, there are some businesses…

In proportion to the size of its population, Lebanon hosts the highest number of Syrian refugees in the world. Bookwitty, a new digital content and book discovery platform, in collaboration with the UNHCR’s Save the Children, has donated books to…

​​Already there are epic tales about Scientology in Hungary—a country that for centuries has cherished its myths and histories. In the last days of the 1980s and the dawning of the 1990s, totalitarian, atheistic Communism receded from Eastern Europe, much…

Chattanooga, Tennessee student Lauren Sims has been named one of five finalists in LearningRx’s national competition celebrating real life changing stories across the country. Lauren’s parents enrolled her in personal brain training after they noticed she was having trouble sounding out words and…

​​​New South Wales, Australia, July 7, 2016 (Newswire) -When Scientologist Fiona Milne of Sydney, Australia, learned about Study Technology developed by Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard, she also found her calling in life.​ Milne grew up in a religious family. ”My…

A 2016 survey of 109 parents whose children had been previously diagnosed with dyslexia and later completed a LearningRx (www.LearningRx.com) personal brain training program, found that many of their pre-training complaints regarding academics—especially reading—were addressed. The results of “Mixed Methods…

A Randomized Control Trial (RCT) testing LearningRx’s (www.LearningRx.com) ThinkRx personal brain training program has been completed and analysis of the brains of the students found significant physical changes. The results of the analysis—“Analysis of Resting State Functional Connectivity in a…