Re: [AAACE-NLA] Who's Accountable? Drop in HS/GEDs in AELS

[AWilder106@aol.com]

Dear Gail,

I talked with one of the people at Johns Hopkins yesterday who ran the data 
for the "Locating the Dropout Crisis" study yesterday afternoon and found out 
that the Greenville High School in Greenville, Mississippi, was included in the 
study.   It was a directed question--I have a book, "In the Deep Heart's 
Core," by Michael Johnston, which describes his two years teaching in Greenville.  
 I then called Leeson Taylor, at Greenville high School, who was extremely 
cordial and welcoming, and invited me to visit the school if I ever were in 
Mississippi.  Mr. Taylor became principal after Johnston's time and after two of 
the years for which data was collected for the Johns Hopkins study.   I linked 
him up with the Johns Hopkins researcher I had talked with earlier, there may 
be possibilities for collaborative work, I hope so.

The need for adult literacy, excluding ESL, is related in my view to the 
issues described in the Johns Hopkins study and documented in the Johnston book.

Andrea
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