Return-Path: <nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id j8SIOqG12471; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 14:24:52 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 14:24:52 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <BAY107-F16C18DF88FE8C207C080FDCF8D0@phx.gbl> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Eileen Eckert" <eileeneckert@hotmail.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-AALPD:2272] (still) reading the world? X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Status: O Content-Length: 995 Lines: 22 Hello all, With the catastrophic events in New Orleans and beyond, I'm a little surprised and disappointed that there has so far been no discussion of whether and how adult education teachers and programs can address these current events and the issues behind them with their students. Or maybe I just missed it. On another topic, I recently heard the end of the Youth Radio broadcast on KQED out of San Francisco; at the end of the program they read the names of Californian youth who have been killed in action over the past month, as well as those who have died by violence in the Bay Area. Of the dozen or so names that were read, one was killed in Iraq; the rest died by violence on city streets here. It seems it is more dangerous to live as a poor person of color in some of our cities than it is to go to war. Are these issues relevant to the teaching and administration of adult education, or are we limited to the technical points of standards and assessments? Eileen
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