Return-Path: <nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id g12I4lu16590; Sat, 2 Feb 2002 13:04:47 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 13:04:47 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <16c.82ab825.298d8385@aol.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: JATDP@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-POVRACELIT:706] Re: Literacy Rates and Reality X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 138 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Status: O Content-Length: 1442 Lines: 33 Mathew, I totally agree with your analysis and would go one step further...I'm not even sure there is an intention to 'bridge racial and economic gaps' but a wish to impose a particular educational philosophy across the board. there also seems to be a huge un-named elephant in the adult basic education room, so to speak. It seems incredable that the years of hard dialog around multicultural, antiracism education in K-12 and higher ed doesn't seem to have seeped into adult ed discussions, at least not where I've hung out. Adult ed does seem to attrack it's share of 'us old hippies' with community organizing backgrounds who are willing to bring class analysis to the table. Yet.... I know that some folks in the New Orleans area have posted their efforts to move the race/class discussion into public adult ed forums. I truly hope this is a sign that these critical issues are truly part of dialog/reflection/action in many more corners of adult ed. Hopefully others doing this work will post on this list. Judy Titzel Providence, RI << It summarizes my growing feeling that much of the talk about leaving no child behind (a nifty trademark infringement on the Children's Defense Fund, by the way) is a very smooth way to talk about bridging racial and economic gaps without managing to talk about race or class. Anyone else have this impression? Peace, Matthew Scelza California Literacy, Inc. >>
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