Prime Minister to visit Exodus Foundation literacy school

The Centre is at the heart of the new National Centre of Indigenous Excellence, which will be officially opened by the Prime Minister. The NSW Premier Kristina Keneally and Governor Marie Bashir will also be in attendance.

The Exodus Foundation's literacy Tutorial Centre program, developed in conjunction with Macquarie University, provides intensive tuition to primary school aged children whose reading age is below average.

Students make average gains of 15 months in reading accuracy, and a 39% increase in the number of words read per minute.

"Our literacy program offers hope to the one-in-five students identified by the NSW Auditor-General's report as having fallen to, or below, minimum literacy levels", said Rev. Crews.

Kevin Rudd will visit the students in The Exodus Foundation Tutorial Centre to see first-hand how these remarkable gains are made.

The Exodus Foundation operates literacy Tutorial Centres in Redfern, Ashfield, Gladstone and Darwin.

Source: http://au.christiantoday.com/article/prime-minister-to-visit-exodus-foundation-literacy-school/7712.htm