Return-Path: <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.9.3/8.9.0.Beta5/980425bjb) with SMTP id IAA04888; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 08:17:25 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 08:17:25 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <NCBBKFFJEKBIIPDOPFOGOECPCMAA.nsledd@famlit.org> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Nancy Sledd" <nsledd@famlit.org> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-FAMILY:2613] Some excerpts from Connect for Kids X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; Status: OR The Connect for Kids Weekly is your source for the latest news on issues affecting kids and families. Feel free to forward this information. Please attribute the source to "Connect for Kids published by the Benton Foundation." <http://www.connectforkids.org/> Low-skilled female workers in rural areas are likely to lead a return to welfare roles in a future economic downturn, says a new Virginia Tech study. Social service agencies should be prepared. http://fbox.vt.edu:10021/ur/news/Archives/Nov99/99462.html **Local Success Stories: Reducing Class Size How are local schools using class-reduction funding authorized in 1998? The U.S. Department of Education describes successful efforts, drawing on national, state and local data. http://www.ed.gov/offices/OESE/ClassSize/localsuccess.html **A new Child Trends Newsletter promises to keep researchers, policy folks, and advocates up to date with major developments in the child and youth indicators field. http://www.childtrends.org/w_welcome.cfm **Board on Children, Youth, and Families' new site gives you a shortcut to publications and reports on kids, teens, and families from the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. http://www4.nationalacademies.org/cbsse/bocyfweb.nsf **"Grantseeker Tips" is an electronic newsletter that helps to "inspire, sustain, and troubleshoot" grantseeking activities. To subscribe, send a message to MinerL@mu.edu and put "subscribe" in the subject line. **Traditional Family Increasingly Rare In its report on "The Changing American Family," the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago suggests that the American family, which has undergone a major transformation in the past generation, is poised to change even more in the coming century. In fact, most households will not even include children. http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/99/991124.family.shtml **Why Some Don't Work This Urban Institute brief finds TANF (formerly welfare) recipients' willingness to work can be thwarted by numerous personal obstacles, such as low education, limited work experience, the need to care for a child, English language limitations, or very poor mental or physical health. Of those with no significant obstacle to work, for example, 52 percent reported working for pay. But in the most disadvantaged group -- those with three or more obstacles -- only 3 percent reported working. http://newfederalism.urban.org/html/series_b/b2/anf_b2.html Nancy Sledd Training Specialist National Center for Family Literacy 325 West Main Street, Suite #200 Waterfront Plaza Louisville, KY 40202-4251 (502) 584-1133 ext.142 (502) 584-0172 fax
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