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 j3BNo6G23084; Mon, 11 Apr 2005 19:50:06 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 19:50:06 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <126.5acd57af.2f8c66ac@aol.com> 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: DonMcCabe@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-FAMILY:2069] Re: Focus on Basics X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: 9.0 Security Edition for Windows sub 1200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Status: O Content-Length: 841 Lines: 14 When I went to the new web site and found my way to the index of subjects, I noticed that spelling wasn't there. http://www.ncsall.net/index.php?id=38 By the way, I wasn't surprised. Even though learning to spell correctly is one very important concern of a rather sizeable percentage of ABE students, it is often ignored. It certainly has been ignored by the Department of Education. Even though Spellings is our new superintendent's name I doubt if she has any plans on having a baseline established for spelling. Did you realize that the last time such a study was conducted was in 1953? The New Iowa Spelling Scale by Harry Greene (1954, University of Iowa). I do believe it is time that we have a new one. Please visit _www.spelling.org_ (http://www.spelling.org) and click on research. Don McCabe
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