At an October 2014 Grad Nation summit in Mobile, education and business leaders praised the city’s college- and career-ready efforts as a model for improving graduation rates and workforce readiness.
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Mobile County DHR Director Tells Rotarians Poverty and Illiteracy Travel Together
Rose Johnson, director of the Mobile County Department of Human Resources, addressed the Sunrise Rotary Club on poverty and what she called its co-conspirator, illiteracy.
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Adult Literacy Tutor Tells Mobile Rotarians How Grown Students Doubled Their Reading Skills
Lydia Gaudet of Goodwill Easter Seals told the Sunrise Rotary Club of Mobile about an adult literacy program whose students, most reading below a third-grade level, doubled their skills in a year.
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Russell Ladd’s ‘Delta Awareness’ Took Sunrise Rotary Into the Mobile-Tensaw Swamp
A twelve-minute film drawn from six decades in the Mobile-Tensaw River Delta was the program at the Sunrise Rotary Club of Mobile on Feb. 4, 2009, along with a warning about the delta’s decline.
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Forward Mobile: The Quiet Circle of 40 That Worked Behind the Scenes
A retired executive told the Rotary Club of Mobile in June 2008 that Forward Mobile, an unpublicized circle of about 40 civic and business leaders, had quietly shaped decades of local decisions.