[AAACE-NLA] Fw: correctional education help please

[Deborah Stedman]

You might check with the Windham Schools system in Texas.  Windham is the
school system for individuals incarcerated in the Texas Department of
Criminal Justice system and there are a lot of inmates.  I don't know
offhand if they have any research on this but they certainly have a lot of
data that could be analyzed.  Their 06-07 Annual Report can be found at
http://wsdtx.org/PDF/APR.pdf .

 

Deborah

 

 

Deborah Stedman, Ph.D.

Grant Director, Texas Family Literacy Resource Center

Lecturer, Developmental and Adult Education

Texas State University

601 University Drive 

San Marcos, TX 78666

512-245-9757

fax: 512-245-8151

 <mailto:ds43 at txstate.edu> ds43 at txstate.edu

 

 

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If you know of studies that provide support for a minimum number of
instructional hours per week, I'll pass it along to our Australian
colleague. 
Thank you! 
Bill Muth 
VCU 




Scott Rennie <rennies at csusb.edu> 

10/15/2008 12:20 PM 


 

 


Hi everybody-

I met Susan Dawe in Denver.  She is an Aussie researcher and she is looking
for some research or articles to back up a position on adult literacy.
Please see the email below and let me know if you can point me to any
pertinent research.

Thanks,

Scott

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Susan Dawe  <mailto:Susan.Dawe at ncver.edu.au> <Susan.Dawe at ncver.edu.au> 


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'Scott Rennie'  <mailto:rennies at csusb.edu> <rennies at csusb.edu> 


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 <mailto:22550D8918FFD74EBDB6DF00CFAEBA8A2143E938 at MOES.ncver.edu.au>
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Hi Scott 
No progress on my VET & prisoners chapter yet as Managing Director  thought
there was no argument in the chapter (he is an economist and needs an
argument for every piece of writing) so the General manager who is a labour
market economist is reviewing it. 
  
Anyway I have just had an interesting query which you might be able to help
me with. 
Apparently prisoners in Victoria are guaranteed 4 hours a week of education
and training but are not getting it due to overcrowding etc. 
Corrections Victoria  would like to present an argument that there is a
minimum number of hours a week required to teach literacy i.e. a theoretical
benchmark (based on pedagogical issues or other reasons). Do you know of any
research or any benchmarks for prisoners on how many hours a week are
required to teach literacy? 
  
Thanks 
Susan 
  
Susan Dawe 
Senior Research Fellow 
Research and Consultancy Branch 
National Centre for Vocational Education Research Ltd 
Level 11, 33 King William Street, Adelaide. 
Contact details: 
PO Box 8288 Station Arcade 
Adelaide SA 5000 
Tel. (08) 8230 8680 (direct) 
        (08) 8230 8400 (switchboard) 
Fax. (08) 8212 3436 
email:  <mailto:susan.dawe at ncver.edu.au> susan.dawe at ncver.edu.au 
URL:  <http://www.ncver.edu.au/> www.ncver.edu.au 
  

 

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