[AAACE-NLA] Re: AAACE-NLA Digest, Vol 31, Issue 31

Wed Dec 21 12:32:51 EST 2005

It does seem that very little emphasis is placed on the  joy that education can bring.  Maybe we should think about that more seriously.  True education can be life changing and can bring joy to our lives.  There seems to be a message out there that becoming educated is something we have to do in order to survive in the world.  Maybe more focus should be put on how great a good education can  be and what it can bring into our lives.

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Today's Topics:

   1. Re:  Media and the NAAL (Soroui, Jaleh)
   2. Re:  An economic take on NAAL results (tanya tweeton)
   3.  Media responses to the NAAL  (David Rosen)
   4.  NAAL (Jacobson, Erik)

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Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 12:13:28 -0500
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Subject: Re: [AAACE-NLA] Media and the NAAL
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View the NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams-- a two-minute piece on
NAAL. More than 8 million people nationwide viewed the story.  Click on
this link to view the video:  
http://video.msn.com/v/us/v.htm?g=5eec60c3-c9cc-499f-ac5e-76364f895ee5&f
=email

Also, check LINCS News Flashes(Literacy in the News), to view NAAL
coverage in the national, state and local media since December 15. Click
on: 
http://www.nifl.gov/cgi-bin/lincs/news_flashes/news_flashes.cgi

Jaleh Behroozi Soroui
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American Institutes for Research 
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NAAL results have been touch on briefly in the TV news.  Other than 
that I have not heard anything.

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Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 01:37:24 -0800 (PST)
From: tanya tweeton <tweeton204 at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [AAACE-NLA] An economic take on NAAL results
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It's not just the spending, but the direction of
spending, that harms US companies, Eisen said. Too
much of that money is directed toward private groups,
such as churches, rather than the companies, where
workers with low literacy rates could make best use of
it, she said.

``It is expensive for manufacturers to do this on
their own but they do it,'' Eisen said.

David,
 I am somewhat confused by that last statement. What
do you suppose they mean exactly? Do they mean that
companies train their own people in Literacy? If so
how are they doing this and how wide spread is this
among the companies? Do you have any idea?

Tanya Tweeton
ESOL and GED Programs
Ft. lauderdale ,Florida

--- David Rosen <DJRosen at theworld.com> wrote:

> AAACE-NLA colleagues.
> 
> I found this of particular interest:
> 
> The Financial Express
> Low US literacy rate costs billions
> BLOOMBERG
> Posted online: Saturday, December 17, 2005 at 1027
> hours IST
> Updated: Saturday, December 17, 2005 at 1057 hours
> IST
> 
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http://www.financialexpress.com/latest_full_story.php?content_id=111805
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> David J. Rosen
> Adult Literacy Advocate
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Edith Hamilton: 
It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about 
education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated 
person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into 
the world of thought -- that is to be educated.

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Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 08:34:15 -0500
From: David Rosen <DJRosen at theworld.com>
Subject: [AAACE-NLA] Media responses to the NAAL 
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AAACE-NLA Colleagues,

Since the National Institute for Literacy is keeping track of media  
responses to the NAAL results on its News Flashes page, there is no  
need for me to continue to do this.  If the media response is of  
interest, please go to:

    http://www.nifl.gov/cgi-bin/lincs/news_flashes/news_flashes.cgi

David J. Rosen
Adult Literacy Advocate
DJRosen at theworld.com

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Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 08:17:49 -0800
From: "Jacobson, Erik" <EJacobson at air.org>
Subject: [AAACE-NLA] NAAL
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Two discussions in the media of the NAAL results: 

1) There is a brief article in Education Week Online (www.edweek.org)

2) Today at 9 AM P.S.T. there will be a discussion of adult literacy on
KQED (public radio in San Francisco). You can listen live over the
internet, and the program should be available in podcast form sometime
after the fact. 

Erik Jacobson

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