[NLA] Thursday Notes, 11/15/01

[Tilghman, Rose]

>From the Desk of Ronald S. Pugsley, Director, DAEL
Office of Vocational and Adult Education
Editor: Sarah Newcomb
Production: Rose Tilghman

November 15, 2001							
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FY '02 Appropriations
Still Pending

At press time no date had been set for the Conference Committee on
Labor-HHS-Education appropriations.

Northern Ireland
Ponders New Adult
Literacy Strategies

Seeking new strategies to serve adults with low literacy skills,
representatives of Northern Ireland's Department of Education and Learning
visited our Division of Adult Education and Literacy last week. Robsen
Davison, Deputy Secretary, and Catherine Bell, senior policy advisor met
with Division of Adult Education and Literacy staff for an interactive
briefing on our programs and how we are meeting the challenges of service
delivery. Briefings continued over lunch with State Directors Kay Brisbane
(DC), Fran Tracy-Mumford (DE), Patricia Bennett (MD), Cheryl Keenan (PA),
and Yvonne Thayer (VA), as well as OVAE officials at the Northern Ireland
Bureau. The Irish team then visited programs in DC, Delaware and
Pennsylvania. Sample areas of interest included health literacy, assessment,
professionalization of adult education teaching, workplace learning and
applying technology to adult education instruction. Contact
<mailto:julia.shepherd at ed.gov>

Oprah Grant
Honors MD's
Learning Bank

Congratulations to The Learning Bank honored recently with a $25,000 Oprah's
Angel Network Award. This award recognizes people and organizations that
improve the lives of others. The Learning Bank receives federal and state
adult education funds that combine with private dollars to provide adult
education and literacy services to approximately 700 urban residents. It is
a program of Communities Organized to Improve Life (COIL) in southwest
Baltimore and the largest privately held program in the city. Contact
Dolores Bramer, Director, <mailto:dkbramer at yahoo.com> 

Adult Educator
Tapped for Science
In Antarctica

Adult educator Susan Cowles of Linn-Benton Community College in Corvallis,
Oregon will join a team of environmentalists exploring persistent
environmental pollutants in coastal seas of Antarctica early next year. Her
travel from January 2 to March 3 is supported by "Teachers Experiencing
Antarctica and the Arctic (TEA)" <http://tea.rice.edu> a program of the
National Science Foundation. You can follow Susan's expedition. Watch for
her journals at Polar Science Home Page <http://literacynet.org/polar/>   It
also provides online science and numeracy resources as well as curricular
materials for teachers, tutors and learners. Susan will answer questions
from learners at <mailto:cowles at tea.rice.edu> 

Health Literacy
Proceedings Out

If you missed our August Health Literacy Symposium, here's your chance to
get key information, including content notes, copies of overheads and
presenter biographies as well as contact information. Ask for Health
Literacy: Implications for Seniors Symposium Proceedings at
<mailto:rickie.gallmon at ed.gov>

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A Fact Sheet from the Division of Adult Education and Literacy
Office of Vocational and Adult Education
OVAE Homepage http://www.ed.gov/offices/OVAE/

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