HISTORY AND MISSION
The
Change Agent is a biannual newspaper for adult educators
and learners published since 1994 by the New England
Literacy Resource Center at World Education. It was conceived
as a tool to educate and mobilize teachers and learners
to apply advocacy skills in response to impending federal
funding cutbacks for adult education. The first issue
was so well received by teachers that we continued to
produce more issues. Now well established as a unique
publication within the adult education community, The
Change Agent continues to promote social action
as an important part of the adult learning experience.
Our mission is to provide a low-cost teaching resource that inspires and enables adult educators and learners to make civic participation and social justice part of their teaching and learning. Each issue explores a different social justice topic through news articles, opinion pieces, classroom activities and lessons, poems, cartoons, interviews, project descriptions, and printed and Web-based resources. The paper has a circulation of 5,000; it is distributed free of charge to literacy programs in most New England states. Individual subscriptions are $10 per year. Bulk subscriptions and back issue copies are also available. The 56-page newspaper is published twice a year in March and September.
