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

[Anita Landoll]

Well, let's hope she doesn't come up with something
like No Adult Left Behind! NCLB is just crazy for sped
students now...

Anita  www.learntoreadnow.com

--- Hal Beder <hbeder at rci.rutgers.edu> wrote:

> 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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