[AAACE-NLA] 4th of July Adult Literacy Survey Now Ready

[David Rosen]

AAACE-NLA Colleague,

On July 4th many people in the U.S. get together with friends and  
relatives for picnics.  For some it is an opportunity to talk with  
people who may have different political perspectives or political  
priorities. This could be a great opportunity to learn what reasons  
those outside our field find most compelling to support adult  
literacy education.  This information could be useful to future adult  
literacy advocacy efforts.

I have created an Independence Day Adult Literacy Survey and it is  
now ready to use immediately, on July 4th, or any time throughout the  
rest of June or July.

The survey has two formats:

1) a two-page document, at

http://home.comcast.net/~djrosen/fourthofjulysurveys.html

to print, photocopy, hand out to family or friends, and then mail to me;

and

2) an electronic version to email to friends or family, who would  
complete it on screen, and then e-mail it back to you or directly to  
me.  If you would like the electronic version, e-mail me at  
djrosen at theworld.com

Please mail (or e-mail) me the completed surveys by July 30th, and  
I’ll tabulate the results and post them here.

I am grateful to Tom Sticht for providing much of the material on  
which this survey is based in his May 29th message to this list,  
entitled “ABC’s of Investing in Adult Literacy Education, ” and to  
other colleagues for giving me good advice on editing the survey,  
including Toni-Ann Mills, John Comings, Cristine Smith, Marty  
Finsterbusch, Marie Cora, Lynn Reed, Jackie Taylor, Sheri Rogers,  
Marilyn Gillespie, Erik Jacobson and Daphne Greenberg

You will find the print version of the survey at

http://home.comcast.net/~djrosen/fourthofjulysurveys.html

(Note: if this web address breaks into two lines, instead of clicking  
on it, cut and paste the whole address into the address window on  
your browser.)


David J. Rosen
7 Newsome Park
Boston, MA 02130-4024
djrosen at theworld.com