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Subject: [NIFL-ESL:11100] New issue of Focus on Basics is available online
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Dear NIFL-ESL listers,
Below is information from Barb Garner on the newest issue of Focus on
Basics. This issue's topic is Corrections Education.
Lynda Terrill
NIFL-ESL Moderator
lterrill@cal.org
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The new issue of Focus on Basics is now available on-line, at
http://www.ncsall.net/?id=818. Subscribers should receive their issues
in the mail this week.
Corrections Education is the topic of this issue, but adult basic
educators working in every setting will find articles of relevance to
their work. A writing workshop provides the glue for the Offender
Re-Entry Program that serves the Suffolk County (Massachusetts) House of
Corrections ,writes Bob Flynn in the cover article. Find out how to run
such a workshop, and why it's so useful.
Kathy Goebel describes why an emphasis on re-entry is so
important and the role that education plays in those efforts. NCSALL
researcher John Tyler finds among racial and ethnic minority offenders -
primarily African-Americans, with a smaller number of Hispanics - a 20
percent increase in the earnings among GED holders relative to non-GED
holders in the first post-release year. That transition year is crucial,
so this is good news. However, these effects diminish over time and are
not found for white ex-offenders.
In Hawaii, Vanessa Helsham uses Hawaiian cultural references and
literature in her classes in the Learning Center in the Halawa
Correctional Facility. She also teaches traditional hula dancing and, in
her class, members of rival gangs work together. If you're doing it
wrong, in hula, you have to change. It's like life, she explains.
Pauline Geraci writes about using a different art form - poetry - in the
Minnesota Correctional Facility Stillwater
Dominique Chlup, Texas, provides a chronology of corrections
education from 1789 and an in-depth discussion of this area over the
past 65 years. Education's role in corrections ebbs and flows as
society's views of incarceration shift from punishment-oriented to
rehabilitative.
Everyone has a right to an education in Vermont, explains Tom
Woods, a teacher in the Community High School of Vermont. Read about
this school and how it serves a transitory population with a huge range
of educational backgrounds and needs. While certain aspects of being a
teacher transcend place, some do not. For those Focus on Basics readers
who are not corrections educators, Dominique Chlup describes what it's
like to teach in a correctional facility.
Recognizing that their learners have a high incidence of
disabilities, low academic skills, and other related challenges,
Missouri and Ohio are using comprehensive screening systems and putting
into place a web of follow-up services, including education. Laura
Weisel, Alan Toops, and Robin Schwarz report on these efforts. Bill Muth
shares the results of his research on assessing offenders' literacy
skills, beliefs, and practices and offers a model of literacy assessment
that can more meaningfully inform placement and instruction. Just as
services are learning to work together to maximize their effectiveness,
so are advisory boards. Marianna Ruprecht, Wisconsin, shares how her
advisory board used technology to do so.
Barb Garner
Editor,
"Focus on Basics"
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