[AAACE-NLA] "Sunday Morning Coming Down," Johnny Cash

[Catherine B. King]

Hello All:

A small note about the relationship between parents' formal
education and a child's educational potential:

I think the one-to-one relationship stands, and that the statistics
probably reflect the reality.

However, besides the actual formal education of the parents
there is also the attitude of the parents towards education.  In
many cases, and notably in many Asian families, the parents have
little or no formal education.   However, along their travels, these
parents have understood the importance of education and, hence,
they do whatever they can to motivate and provide for their
children's education--for everyone, including themselves in their
old age.

The counter-cases are the parents who consider the
accumulation of knowledge in their children as a threat--knowledge
that would take the child far beyond the parents' knowledge
development and, presumably, their authority; and the
parent who has no clue that they themselves, in fact, are
under-educated as a matter of horizon.  "It was good enough
for me . . . "  But of course, from an educational point of view,
it wasn't.

Regards,

Catherine King

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Rosen" <DJRosen at theworld.com>
To: "National Literacy Advocacy List sponsored by AAACE" 
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Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 6:07 AM
Subject: Re: [AAACE-NLA] "Sunday Morning Coming Down," Johnny Cash


> Andrea and others,
>
> Thanks, Andrea, for calling this series  to our attention.  I found
> the first part riveting.  The plight of young adults who have trouble
> achieving in regular schools -- maybe in any school --  school "drop-
> outs", "at risk" youth, "young adult learners" is getting less
> attention in public policy now.  I wonder, as AAACE-NLA subscribers
> view this if any are thinking how well their program would be able to
> serve Cody or Chris, what your program would do that was the same or
> different from the David (alternative high) School in Eastern Kentucky.
>
> David J. Rosen
> Adult Literacy Advocate
> DJRosen at theworld.com
>
> On Jan 8, 2006, at 12:27 PM, AWilder106 at aol.com wrote:
>
>> Colleagues--
>>
>> Our local educational TV station is showing "Country Boys"  on
>> three nights starting tomorrow.  9-11 pm  (Don't know why  ed  TV
>> people can't show good stuff earlier; I'm ready to pass out by
>> 10:00.  However.) I'm sure other stations are showing it tomorrow
>> night, too.
>>
>> One of the boys, it turns  out, gets a GED--he seems to have had
>> learning problems early on.
>>
>> The film sounds grim, set in the poverty of Appalachia.  Definitely
>> a must see.
>>
>> I think funders should see at least a part  of this.
>>
>> The problem of low adult literacy is poverty, it's that simple.
>> Money buys you better schools, LD services that might help, better
>> nutrition, the list goes on. I heard this morning on NPR a critique
>> of NCLB by Richard Rothstein who wrote "Class and Schools," which I
>> praised here last year.
>>
>> As I see it we have several populations to serve:
>>
>> 1)     Non English speaking Immigrants
>> 2)     Life long learners, meaning, really, those who need work
>> training and retraining.
>> 3)     GED track people
>> 4)     Low  literate folks who need to get going and get help.
>>
>> I think this is accurate, someone let me know if not.  We should be
>> clear on our categories, who to help and  ways to help.
>>
>> I'm trying to address David's advocacy challenge, to put together a
>> campaign that works.  I can't think how to do this.  "Invest" seems
>> too pinstripe/Wall Street a word, even if it's accurate.
>>
>> Andrea
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