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Date: Tue Aug 02 2005 - 12:16:21 EDT
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Return-Path: <nifl-assessment@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id j72GGLG25959; Tue, 2 Aug 2005 12:16:21 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 12:16:21 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <001f01c5977d$3ce453f0$0602a8c0@frodo> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-assessment@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-assessment@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-assessment@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Marie Cora" <marie.cora@hotspurpartners.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-assessment@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ASSESSMENT:1194] FW: Request to hear from USDOE and Funders X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 Content-Type: text/plain; Status: O Content-Length: 1898 Lines: 53 Dear List Members, The following post is from Andrea Wilder. marie -----Original Message----- From: AWilder106@aol.com [mailto:AWilder106@aol.com] Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 3:30 PM To: marie.cora@hotspurpartners.com Subject: Re: [NIFL-ASSESSMENT:1189] Request to hear from USDOE and Funders I guess I'm in that gray area of funders, I don't do it myself, but I am being paid to....another time, folks. OK, what do funders want? You'd have to make the rounds and ask, I think there are differences. The place I work for wants adult literacy because: * It's the basis for democracy, people should be able to vote and to read. Maybe if people can vote and read poverty will be reduced. Life is especially unfair if you are a minority. In addition, I want adult literacy because: * It's a way to reduce population growth and increase children's health. Causal relationsip, the only one there is The planet is overburdened with homo sapiens, we are in trouble, wh= at with that and global warming and India and China wanting coal...oil...droughts increasing,..storms...fish decline.. Adult literacy = skilled readers. Skilled readers = can read from an adult level book, and/or can learn new literacy skills, like when there is a job to be mastered. The problem is how to make this happen. "Make this happen" = skilled teachers. Skilled teachers = know how people learn to read, comfortable with technology (computers). Skilled readers = can pass GED or other standardized test; make discernable literacy progress. Skilled readers should be part of an education network, like what Gail S. talks about. This may help them get jobs, expand opportunities. That's kind of basic, and I could elaborate ad infinitum but will not. Believe me, other funders will want different things, like increased global competiveness, improved state economies, and so on. Andrea
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