Return-Path: <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id f3NKtbg13704; Mon, 23 Apr 2001 16:55:37 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 16:55:37 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <p0500190bb70a45245a7c@[146.186.96.31]> 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: Barb Van Horn <blv1@psu.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-FAMILY:3646] resources from HandsNet Digest X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Status: O Content-Length: 2785 Lines: 55 The HandsNet WebClipper Digest is HandsNet's weekly overview of cross-cutting human services news from throughout the World Wide Web. For daily Headlines news, Alerts and Discussions, and to start your personal clipping service tailored to your needs, visit WebClipper at http://www.webclipper.org. Free trial WebClipper memberships are available on our public site at http://www.handsnet.org. STATE OF AMERICA'S CHILDREN YEARBOOK 2001 - Children's Defense Fund's annual "Green Book" reveals one in six children in America lives in poverty, millions have inadequate health care coverage and poor and middle-income families are finding it harder to make ends meet. The report said two out of three mothers worked outside the home in March 2000, up from fewer than one in two 20 years ago. Poor families spent 35%of their income on child care. Highlighting a child care crisis in America, the report said nearly 7 million children aged 5 to 14 cared for themselves on a regular basis without any adult supervision while a parent was at work. http://www.msnbc.com:80/news/561479.asp?cp1=1 The 2001 Yearbook will soon be available at: http://www.childrensdefense.org/ NIH STUDY LINKS CHILD AGGRESSIVENESS AND DAY CARE - The more hours that toddlers spend in child care, the more likely they are to turn out aggressive, disobedient and defiant by the time they are in kindergarten, according to the largest and most authoritative study of child care and development ever conducted. Complicating matters further, quality child care is associated with increased skills in intellectual ability such as language and memory. The government-sponsored research, which has tracked more than 1,300 children at 10 sites across the country since 1991, is bound to rekindle a debate that resonates across every income group and every demographic: How should people balance work and family? http://www.srcd.org/pp1.html CHILD CARE STUDY WORRIES EXPERTS, PARENTS - One of the study's researchers, and other child-care experts, urged parents yesterday not to overreact. They said the study underscored the need for policy changes, including better salaries and training for child-care workers, paid parental leave and more flexible working hours for parents of young children. http://news.excite.com/news/ap/010419/18/child-care-dilemma -- ****************** Barbara Van Horn NIFL-WORKPLACE List Co-Moderator Co-Director, Institute for the Study of Adult Literacy Co-Director, Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy College of Education, The Pennsylvania State University 102 Rackley Building, University Park, PA 16802-3202 Phone: 814-865-5876 Fax: 814-863-6108 E-mail: BLV1@PSU.EDU "Moving adult literacy from the Margins to the Mainstream"
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