[AAACE-NLA] U.S. Secretary of Education Announces Plans to Increase Adult Ed Efforts ?

[Hal Beder]

This is very interesting and also disturbing.  We have been 
discussing the technical meaning of NAAL. Ultimately, however,  the 
political meaning of NAAL will be more important than the "technical 
meaning" because the political meaning that emerges will guide policy 
makers' actions.  Although the political meaning of NAAL will be 
shaped by many factors, what those who have power and access to the 
press want NAAL to mean has inordinate influence.  So far it seems 
that although NAAL has identified a problem, the "spin" is that it's 
a higher education problem and, according to the press release below, 
a K-12 problem.  Adult literacy education is being left out of the 
equation.  The notion that NAAL will be a significant force in 
positively influencing  adult literacy has been eroded and will 
probably continue to be eroded if the Administration has its way.




At 06:44 AM 1/3/2006, you wrote:
>AAACE-NLA Colleagues,
>
>Reporter, Alisha Wyman, responded to a colleague on the AAACE-NLA
>list who wrote her to find out more.
>
>David J. Rosen
>Adult Literacy Advocate
>DJRosen at theworld.com
>-----
>From: Alisha Wyman <awyman at uniondemocrat.com>
>Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 17:59:10 -0800
>Subject: Re: your article of 12/29
>
>I got that information from a press release at this adress:
>http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2005/12/12152005.html
>
>Its from the U.S. Department of Education, and it doesn't specify
>what those programs are. I don't think that the efforts she was
>talking about had to do with funding, though it wasn't specific.
>
>Thanks, hope this helps.
>
>Alisha
>-----
>
>On Dec 30, 2005, at 3:24 PM, David Rosen wrote:
>
>>AAACE-NLA Colleagues,
>>
>>Two intriguing sentences which appear in an article today in the
>>Sonora, California Union Democrat:
>>"There is much work to do, however, to break out of the stall the
>>literacy study shows, U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret
>>Spellings said in a statement. Spellings recently announced plans
>>to increase adult education efforts among several federal agencies."
>>
>>         http://www.uniondemocrat.com/news/story.cfm?story_no=19287
>>
>>Does anyone know what this refers to?
>>
>>David J. Rosen
>>DJRosen at theworld.com
>>
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