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 f4GKuMf15657; Wed, 16 May 2001 16:56:22 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 16:56:22 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <NFBBIKLPIKFKKLFAOBAAKECDCCAA.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:176] Thursday Notes 5/17/2001 X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Status: O Content-Length: 2942 Lines: 69 >From the Desk of Ronald S. Pugsley, Director, DAEL Office of Vocational and Adult Education Editor: Sarah Newcomb Production: Rose Tilghman May 17, 2001 ___________________________________ S 1 Amendment Could Extend TANF Training The Senate is considering amendments to S 1, reauthorizing ESEA, including a Levin (D-MI)--Jeffords (R-VT) amendment to expand the vocational training period counted as work for welfare clients under the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) Act. Currently, vocational training for TANF clients is limited to 12 months. The amendment would allow vocational education training to be counted as work for 24 months under TANF. High Skills Conference Draws National Network Nearly 30 representatives of postsecondary and adult education, businesses, and community groups joined in an OVAE-sponsored meeting here May 9-11. The group met to work out strategies to create and improve community partnerships for adult learning and economic development. They also toured the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Center for Workforce Preparation, and the Arlington Education and Employment Program. Contact charles.talbert@ed.gov OH Cites Strong Adult Ed Presence On WIBs A recent survey by the Ohio Department of Education (ODE) found strong collaborations and formal adult education representation on a number of the state's local workforce investment boards. ODE's Jeff Gove credits local adult education programs' engagement and advocacy for adult education's "place at the table." ODE encourages adult education programs not currently represented to stay connected to local workforce development initiatives. Check out Ohio's workforce investment board membership, WIA area plans and other WIA stats, at the Ohio Workforce Connections website http://www.ohioworkforce.org/localwiacontacts_toc.html Reading: Sure, But Why Bother? A 1999 Gallup poll unearthed this week by the Washington Post shows a large group of adults who can read, but don't. According to the poll, the trend toward "aliteracy" has been rising over the past 20 years as reading competes with other forms of information-getting. Increasingly, reading skills that Americans are taught focus on skimming to get information. Far less emphasized is reading for the pure joy of it. Over half of survey respondents read fewer than ten books in a year. Only six percent belonged to book clubs and just seven percent read a book a week or more. See http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23370-2001May13.html ______________________________________________________________________ __________________________ 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/ Heidi A.C. Watson NIFL-Workplace Co-Moderator Institute for the Study of Adult Literacy 102 Rackley Building University Park PA 16802 (814)865-6472 (814)863-6108 fax haw6@psu.edu
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