[NLA] NIFL and childhood reading

[Baxter, Sandra]

Gail is correct.  The funding for the activities relating to acquisition of
reading skills in early childhood is an additional appropriation that comes
to the NIFL through the Reading Excellence Act and, beginning in FY 2002,
Reading First. Since 1999, NIFL has received $5 million annually for this
effort. It is important to note that under Reading First, this funding may
be used to disseminate information on reading research relevant to children,
youth, and adults. Christy Gullion has posted a response to Dr. Smith's
concerns in a message dated January 24th that more fully explains the
appropriations made to NIFL and their purposes.  

Sandra Baxter
Interim Director, NIFL  

-----Original Message-----
From: Gail Spangenberg [mailto:gspangenberg at caalusa.org]
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 11:57 AM
To: nla at lists.literacytent.org
Subject: Re: [NLA] NIFL and childhood reading


Friends - My understanding is that NIFL funds for adult literacy 
(already approved/set for the next fiscal year) are separate from 
funding (which is new) for kids' activities - but perhaps someone at 
NIFL could speak to the issue.  Gail S


>Given the current discussion of the apparent new direction of NIFL 
>to focus on childhood literacy (ie, reading) education and away from 
>adult and family literacy, I noted with interest a new RFP from NIFL 
>for a "national study of reading programs." The purpose of the study 
>is "for planning, conducting, and reporting the results of an 
>analysis of the content and effectiveness of the most widely used 
>programs for teaching reading in terms of the extent to which they 
>contain essential components of reading instruction as supported by 
>scientifically-based reading research," to quote the RFP.
>
>In the recent past, such an RFP would likely have come out of OERI. 
>It is a clear indication NIFL's new agenda. I'm guessing that the 
>funding required for such a project is likely to exhaust NIFL's 
>budget for research projects, so where does that leave the NIFL 
>Literacy Fellowship program (which has provided research funding for 
>several investigators/fellows over the past several years)?
>
>M Cecil Smith, Ph.D.
>Associate Professor of Educational Psychology
>Northern Illinois University
>
>
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Gail Spangenberg
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