[NLA] Practitioner Research

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Holly,

You're probably right.  Look at where the money goes or doesn't and you've 
got anxious people worried about survival of their programs.  

The academic life can be for some like a hair shirt, especially, I think, 
when cut off from real students, teachers and administrators--it becomes 
absurd and risks being widely off the mark.  The more teachers and 
administrators who speak up on the nla list the better and more lively it is, 
and  the better policy can potentially be when these voices are HEARD. 

Why is democracy seen as anti-intellectual in this country?  is this true?  
Does that formulation explain anything to list members?  What is an elite, 
anyway?  How does any of this tie into questions we have raised about the 
reasoning behind adult literacy, motivations for supporting it and working 
towards it?  Does this play out in funding decisions?  In how we talk about 
the subject on the nla list? "This is a democracy, but some are more equal 
than others?"

Andrea
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