Return-Path: <nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id eBV2fG914385; Sat, 30 Dec 2000 21:41:27 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 21:41:27 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <NDBBLOBOOLAPGLFICILHMEOGCMAA.haw6@psu.edu> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "H. A. C. Watson" <haw6@psu.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-WORKPLACE:7] Thursday Notes 12/28/2000 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: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; Status: O Content-Length: 3312 Lines: 63 >From the Desk of Ronald S. Pugsley, Director, DAEL Office of Vocational and Adult Education Editor: Sarah Newcomb Production: Rose Tilghman December 28, 2000 ___________________________________ Even Start Changes In Appropriations Bill A reauthorization of Even Start through 2005 was included in the omnibus appropriations legislation approved by Congress last week. The legislation also boosted Even Start’s funding from $150M in FY 00 to $250M for FY 01. Amendments include requiring states to “encourage” local education agencies and schools receiving ESEA Title I funds to use them to offer family literacy. The legislation further requires “a majority” of instructional staff in Even Start family literacy programs to have a college degree in a field related to early childhood, elementary/secondary or adult education within four years of enactment of the statute. The new law also says states must send the Secretary of Education the indicators of program quality used to evaluate family literacy programs by June 30 in order to maintain their eligibility for these funds. CTC’s Double; Goodling Center At Penn State More good news from the FY 01 Labor/HHS/Education Appropriations bill: the Community Technology Centers program more than doubles, up from $32.50M in FY 00 to $69.95M this year. Details on any new competition will appear here as they emerge. In other news, Pennsylvania State University gets $6M under the legislation to establish the William F. Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy and to establish its endowment fund. Former State Director Talbert Joins DAEL Former Maryland State Director Charles Talbert moves to OVAE’s Division of Adult Education and Literacy (DAEL) January 8 to continue his work on a High Skills Communities initiative to mobilize communities around lifelong learning. Talbert leaves a branch chief slot with OVAE’s Division of National Programs which handles Native American, Native Hawaiian and Alaska Native education; vocational education for the Pacific region and Outlying Areas; and supports education reform. Welcome, Charles! Contact charles_talbert@ed.gov Software Can Help Use Learner Performance Data Quality School Portfolio (QSP) software can help school personnel take a range of data sets from external sources and reconfigure them into a single, longitudinal, individual student progress record, said Dr. Eva Baker at the Educational Testing Service recently. Dr. Baker and her colleagues at the Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards and Student Testing have been working on QSP applications allowing educators to disaggregate learners’ results to see how groups of students have done in various scenarios. The system also can help develop reporting displays from simple graphs to icons using a set of core indicators. Another component of Baker’s system can answer questions on topics of local interest such as curriculum to help programs with systematic self-assessment. Copies of Baker’s William H. Angoff Memorial Lecture at ETS can be downloaded at http://www.ets.org/research ____________________________________________________________________________ ____ A Fact Sheet from the Division of Adult Education and Literacy Office of Vocational and Adult Education OVAE Homepage http://www.ed.gov/offices/OVAE/
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