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 hAEG8Iu23335; Fri, 14 Nov 2003 11:08:18 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 11:08:18 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <000b01c3aac9$011704a0$32881a0a@famlit.net> 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: "Noemi Aguilar" <naguilar@famlit.org> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-FAMILY:1711] Clips & crossposts X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4510 Content-Type: text/plain; Status: O Content-Length: 4529 Lines: 91 >From Connect for Kids: **New Thinking on Children, Poverty and IQ Provocative new research showing a link between children's IQ scores and their families' socio-economic status offers scientific support for the view that reducing poverty will help kids succeed. Connect for Kids' Jan Richter interviewed lead researcher Eric Turkheimer to learn more. http://www.connectforkids.org/benton_topics1544/benton_topics_show.htm?doc_i d=198174 **A Personal Tale, A Practical Handbook: Two Approaches to Reading Raising a Reader by Jennie Nash and See Johnny Read! by Tracey Wood are two recent books about the critical role parents can play in helping their children build a positive relationship with books and reading. Connect for Kids takes a look between the covers. http://www.connectforkids.org/benton_topics1544/benton_topics_show.htm?doc_i d=198175 **2003 Brown Center Report on American Education This year's Brown Center Report on American Education finds that student math and reading performance improved in 2001 and 2002 among younger students, but at a slower pace than a few years ago. Twelfth-grade NAEP scores in reading actually declined. One-fourth of high school seniors (700,000 students) lack the basic skills required for meaningful work or success in higher education. http://www.brookings.edu/gs/brown/bc_report/2003/2003report.htm **What to make of NAEP, AYP Scores Just as stepping on the scale offers one measure of your health and taking blood pressure another, various educational tests and indicators provide different perspectives on school and student performance. This Q&A sheet clarifies the differences between the newer No Child Left Behind (NCLB)-mandated tests and the NAEP tests, offering guidance on interpreting the results, especially cross-state comparisons. http://www.ksaplus.com/ksa/framesnewsa.html **Geography of Low-Income Families and Children Fact Sheet Low-income families are moving to the South to follow jobs -- a sign of families' commitment to work, and the need for strong work supports, like an expanded federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), refundable state tax credits, and affordable child care. Restoring recent immigrants' access to income and work supports would decrease the vulnerability of their children and help these families become financially stable. http://www.nccp.org/pub_gfs03.html **Where Do Children in Low-Income Families Live? The National Center on Children in Poverty reports that 41 percent of children in low-income families now live in the South and 26 percent live in the West -- a geographic shift fueled by immigration and families seeking better jobs. In these regions, children in low-income families are more concentrated in rural areas; they are more likely to live in urban areas in the Midwest and Northeast. While poverty in suburban areas is growing, suburban children are substantially less likely to be poor than those in rural and urban areas. http://www.nccp.org/media/liv03-text.pdf **The Language of Opportunity: Expanding Employment Prospects for Adults with Limited English Skills Virtually all of our nation's workforce growth for the foreseeable future will come from immigration, so failure to assist immigrants in improving their language and job skills is likely to hurt workforce productivity over the long term. The Center for Law and Social Policy says research points to the effectiveness of programs that combine full-time language, literacy and job skill training to increase earnings and prospects for low-skilled immigrants. http://www.clasp.org/DMS/Documents/1062102188.74/LEP_report.pdf **Pathways to Getting Ahead This booklet helps young adults begin to think about asset building in their personal lives -- getting the skills and financing for a good education, ways to save, finding jobs with good benefits -- and links to important information. http://www.centeronhunger.org/pdf/pathways.pdf **Planning for College Broadcast Students and parents need to start financial planning and building a strong academic foundation as early as middle school for college. On November 18, this Department of Education broadcast will give families the basics. (You can watch live and archived Web casts at http://www.connectlive.com/events/ednews.) http://registerevent.ed.gov/downlink/event-flyer.asp?intEventID=171 Noemi Aguilar National Center for Family Literacy 325 West Main Street, Suite 300 Louisville, KY 40202-4237 Phone: 502/584-1133 ext 168 Fax: 502/584-0172 E-mail: naguilar@famlit.org
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