NCFL’s mission is to create a literate nation by leveraging the power of the family.

Family literacy is an intergenerational approach based on the indisputable evidence that low literacy is an unfortunate and debilitating family tradition. Parents who are not literate tend to have children who struggle academically and who often do not achieve literacy proficiency in adulthood.

Family literacy helps parents and children form a learning partnership that ends the cycle of poverty and illiteracy. NCFL works to find solutions to the literacy crisis that build on the family to create a new cycle of ongoing learning and mutual support. (Read more about family literacy.)

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