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 fAFF9k029704; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 10:09:46 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 10:09:46 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <p05001904b8198926e4b2@[146.186.96.32]> 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: Priscilla Carman <psc3@psu.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-WORKPLACE:353] Thursday Notes 11/15 X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="============_-1206285791==_ma============" Status: O Content-Length: 10776 Lines: 226 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" From the Desk of Ronald S. Pugsley, Director, DAEL Office of Vocational and Adult Education Editor: Sarah Newcomb Production: Rose Tilghman November 15, 2001 ___________________________________ FY '02 Appropriations Still Pending At press time no date had been set for the Conference Committee on Labor-HHS-Education appropriations. Northern Ireland Ponders New Adult Literacy Strategies Seeking new strategies to serve adults with low literacy skills, representatives of Northern Ireland's Department of Education and Learning visited our Division of Adult Education and Literacy last week. Robsen Davison, Deputy Secretary, and Catherine Bell, senior policy advisor met with Division of Adult Education and Literacy staff for an interactive briefing on our programs and how we are meeting the challenges of service delivery. Briefings continued over lunch with State Directors Kay Brisbane (DC), Fran Tracy-Mumford (DE), Patricia Bennett (MD), Cheryl Keenan (PA), and Yvonne Thayer (VA), as well as OVAE officials at the Northern Ireland Bureau. The Irish team then visited programs in DC, Delaware and Pennsylvania. Sample areas of interest included health literacy, assessment, professionalization of adult education teaching, workplace learning and applying technology to adult education instruction. Contact julia.shepherd@ed.gov Oprah Grant Honors MD's Learning Bank Congratulations to The Learning Bank honored recently with a $25,000 Oprah's Angel Network Award. This award recognizes people and organizations that improve the lives of others. The Learning Bank receives federal and state adult education funds that combine with private dollars to provide adult education and literacy services to approximately 700 urban residents. It is a program of Communities Organized to Improve Life (COIL) in southwest Baltimore and the largest privately held program in the city. Contact Dolores Bramer, Director, dkbramer@yahoo.com Adult Educator Tapped for Science In Antarctica Adult educator Susan Cowles of Linn-Benton Community College in Corvallis, Oregon will join a team of environmentalists exploring persistent environmental pollutants in coastal seas of Antarctica early next year. Her travel from January 2 to March 3 is supported by "Teachers Experiencing Antarctica and the Arctic (TEA)" <<http://tea.rice.edu>http://tea.rice.edu> a program of the National Science Foundation. You can follow Susan's expedition. Watch for her journals at Polar Science Home Page <<http://literacynet.org/polar/>http://literacynet.org/polar/> It also provides online science and numeracy resources as well as curricular materials for teachers, tutors and learners. Susan will answer questions from learners at cowles@tea.rice.edu Health Literacy Proceedings Out If you missed our August Health Literacy Symposium, here's your chance to get key information, including content notes, copies of overheads and presenter biographies as well as contact information. Ask for Health Literacy: Implications for Seniors Symposium Proceedings at rickie.gallmon@ed.gov ____________________________________________________________________ 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/>http://www.ed.gov/offices/OVAE/
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