NLA QUESTION: America Reads tutor training

[Fran Keenan]

Alice [Johnson] posted the press release about America Reads expanding
(finally!) to include family literacy in its scope. I am left
wondering how these college work study students will be trained to
tutor the parents who want help with  literacy and English proficiency.

Who is training the tutors? Is Laubach?

Fran Keenan
National Clearinghouse for ESL
Literacy Education (NCLE) fran at cal.org





 In addition to the opportunity for college Federal Work-Study
     students to tutor in local schools, a new waiver to take effect
July 
     1, 1998 will expand tutoring into family literacy programs. 
"The 
     parent is the child's first and most important teacher," said
Carol H. 
     Rasco, Director of The America Reads Challenge. "Sometimes the
best 
     way to help a child is to help parents with their own literacy
skills, 
     and encourage them to read with and to their children," said
Rasco.
     
        The America Reads Challenge is President Clinton's initiative
to
     help all children read well by the end of third grade.  In a
1994 
     National Assessment of Educational Progress test, 40% of
American 
     fourth graders failed to read at a basic level.