[NLA] LLA and LVA, Federal Policy Work

[AWilder106@aol.com]

Dear Marsha,

I'll see what I can do to answer your question about the LLA and LVA.

I was thinking about how to create a system for adult literacy, and what 
might have been going on in people's minds.  If I were designing something 
(say a house) I would look around for materials that I could use that might 
be useful for what I wanted to achieve.  So I would look at these two 
successful voluntary organizations and wonder how they might be useful to 
what I wanted to achieve.  Could I work out a partnership?  Could the two 
organizations be the (a) channel for adult literacy?

The idea isn't outlandish, as I think Sharon Darling and family literacy 
worked out a federal arrangement.

Then I thought that the government might see a federal role that had to be 
bigger than 2 voluntary organizations.

But then I have been thinking that with all the fractionalization it would 
take Atlas to make one single system that worked in harmony.  What we have 
now is patchwork. I always sort of knew this, but hadn't gotten around to 
seriously thinking about it until now.  We are all linked up to NIFL through 
the nla, which is a great benefit, we can discuss these issues.

This is a little beside your question, maybe--but we need some certainty 
around the "core technology" we use--teaching adults how to read and write 
better, and LLA and LVA seem to have figured out some of that.  I really do 
go and listen to people who do the needed studies, I think it's important to 
do that.  Everyone seems to be all over the map organizationally, where they 
get money, so we need this certainty. Some things work better than others, we 
can figure that out

Andrea.

  
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