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Programs and Pictures held at the Learning Center

Tutor In-service

Goal-setting for Volunteers
Wednesday, December 9, '08 
5pm until 8:00 pm at The Learning Center
123 3rd Street, Williamsport, PA
Contact Virginia at 570-321-0200 to register by December 3, '08
Presented byTutors of Literacy in the Commonwealth

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Ruth Love-Schooley, Family Literacy Coordinator, along with Vanessa Baker and her granddaughter, Kiara, accept a proclamation from Lycoming County Commissioners declaring November Family Literacy month in Lycoming County.



Did you Know?

  • College graduates earn twice as much as people with a high school degree or GED?
  • Fastest growing jobs that pay a living wage require  college degrees?
  • There is financial aid to help people with college expenses?
  • Services are locally available to assist you with your college planning readiness, admissions, and financial aid?
Want To Take College Classes, But Not Sure You’re Really Ready?
Step Across Our FREE Bridge-to-College! 
Through our Bridge-to-College Program you will:
  • Brush up you reading, writing, and math skills
  • Develop college-level study skills
  • Focus your college and career goals
  • Get help with college admissions and financial forms
Lycoming County's Adult Literacy and Lifelong Learning Program
The Learning Center serves many students:
• adults who do not read and write at a 5th grade level
• parents who want to have the reading & writing skills to help their children in school
• adults speaking other languages who want to learn English
• persons preparing for college entrance exams, GED exams or armed forces exams
• workers seeking to learn new on the job skills



An adult education student and tutor work together at The Learning Center




Working to equip our county’s adults – many of them parents - with the basic literacy skills they need to be better family members, workers and community members. The Learning Center is a state certified adult basic education provider.

Services are free and include: one on one tutoring small group studies, math and writing assistance, a comprehensive computer lab, Family Literacy programs, English as a second language and Workplace skills programs.

The Learning Center is
•a space – a comfortable place to meet and learn at 123 East Fourth Street in downtown Williamsport
• a staff of helpful friendly trained coaches and instructors
• a spirit - a corps of volunteers committed to helping the learner become more confident about their abilities to meet their goals.

The Learning Center is a service of the Lycoming County Library System and is a United Way agency.

The Learning Center, ©2008 | (570) 321-0200
Lycoming County ’s Adult Literacy and Lifelong Learning Program
123 East 4th Street, Williamsport PA 17701
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GED Facts:
More than 860,000 adults worldwide take the GED Tests each year.

Those who obtain scores high enough to earn a GED credential outperform at least 40 percent of today's high school seniors.

GED graduates include: comedian Bill Cosby, actor Christian Slater, Delaware former Governor Ruth Ann Minner, and U.S. Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell of Colorado.