Return-Path: <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.9.0.Beta5/8.9.0.Beta5/980425bjb) with SMTP id QAA05024; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 16:06:44 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 16:06:44 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <Pine.SGI.3.95.981207160830.7619E-100000@world.std.com> Errors-To: lmann@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: David J Rosen <DJRosen@world.std.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ESL:2730] NCLE funding X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII [Cross-posted from the NLA list] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 15:13:58 -0500 (EST) From: Janet Isserlis <Janet_Isserlis@Brown.edu> Dear Colleagues, For years, I (and many of you, and others, I suspect) have relied on the National Clearinghouse for ESL Literacy Education (NCLE), an adjunct ERIC Clearinghouse, for everything from digests to bibliographies, to monographs, to contacts for speakers, resources and information pertaining to adult literacy and ESOL education. As far as I know, the US Department of Education has not yet made a commitment to funding the National Clearinghouse for ESL Literacy Education (NCLE) beyond December 31, of this year (of this month!). Without this funding, NCLE will be forced to close down. I've no idea what that means for its excellent website, and/or for the resources available in terms of both materials and staff. Clearly, though, a major source of information and expertise will be lost to us should NCLE not receive its funding. If you are concerned about this impending loss of ESL teacher resources, information, and technical assistance, please contact Patricia McNeil or Ronald Pugsley at the U.S. Department of Education (addresses below) and let them know that the field of adult education needs NCLE. So you know: Background: NCLE has been funded by the Department of Education since 1989, when the clearinghouse was established. In that time, NCLE has published 70 ERIC Digests, as well as books and issue papers, including Making Meaning, Making Change by Elsa Auerbach, Talking Shop, by a group of teachers working with Elsa at that time, bibliographies, articles, and newsletters (NCLEnotes) about English language and literacy education for adults. Since 1995, NCLE's site (http://www.cal.org/ncle) has given adult ESL educators a home base on the Web. In addition to publishing, Fran Keenan, a NCLE staff member, moderates the NIFL-ESL listerv, and she and her colleagues provide information and technical assistance by e-mail, phone, and at conferences, and build the ERIC database in the area of adult ESL practice and research. Please write to the people named below as soon as you can, and urge others to contect them as well. Let them know of the importance of NCLE's work to yours, and urge them to support its continuation. Patricia McNeil, Assistant Secretary, Office of Vocational and Adult Education (Patricia_McNeil@ed.gov) Ronald Pugsley, Director, Division of Adult Education and Literacy (ronald_pugsley@ed.gov) If you haven't been to the NCLE website, and you have internet access, please go there now and see what you've been missing and what we don't want to have to miss in the future. Thanks very much. Janet Isserlis Literacy Resources/RI
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