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 j8SKGCG16430; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 16:16:12 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 16:16:12 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <55E3F176-A013-46C6-84AB-8D56E0F93B73@comcast.net> 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: David Rosen <djrosen@comcast.net> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-AALPD:2275] Re: (still) reading the world? X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.734) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Status: O Content-Length: 1285 Lines: 36 Hello Eileen, These important issues are being discussed on other NIFL lists (NIFL- Health, NIFL-POVRACELIT) and also on the AAACE-NLA list. David J. Rosen djrosen@comcast.net On Sep 28, 2005, at 2:24 PM, Eileen Eckert wrote: > 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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