Return-Path: <nifl-family@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 OAA13280; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 14:33:57 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 14:33:57 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <v03010d04b292e7661bb8@[128.148.147.28]> Errors-To: azaheer@famlit.org Reply-To: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Janet Isserlis <Janet_Isserlis@Brown.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-FAMILY:1808] NCLE alert X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >[Cross-posted from the NLA list - with apologies to those for whom this is >not a new message] > >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 15:13:58 -0500 (EST) > >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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