Thinkfinity.org offers free literacy program evaluation tool

An online tool designed to help local literacy organizations evaluate their programs, make changes to produce better results, and help increase national literacy rates, was unveiled this week at the National Literacy Summit at Georgetown University. The evaluation program, known as the Verizon Literacy Program Self- Assessment Tool, was created by the National Center for Family Literacy (NCFL) and funded by the Verizon Foundation. It is free and available to all literacy programs at Thinkfinity.org. The assessment tool provides a detailed online questionnaire that asks about a literacy program’s methods, the education level of its students, parental involvement, and current tools used to assess the program’s success. Read more at CNN Money.com.