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 fALEX2029496; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 09:33:03 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 09:33:03 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <p05001900b82169dadc46@[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:356] Thursday Notes 11/22/01 X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="============_-1205769623==_ma============" Status: O Content-Length: 8794 Lines: 187 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 22, 2001 ___________________________________ Happy Thanksgiving to All Appropriations on Hold for Thanksgiving Congress has headed home for the Thanksgiving holiday. No action on the Labor-HHS-Education appropriations conference committee is expected until Congress returns November 27. Census 2000 Data To Drive July's Adult Ed Allotments Odds are good that this July's adult education allotments will be based on 2000 US Census data rather than on updates from the 1990 data used last year. This news should bode well for areas of high population growth, such as the West and South because the population-based formula in the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act may push dollars their way. But there is a caution. Until the formula runs have been completed actual results remain to be seen. Are GED Graduates Really "Graduates?" A new report from the Manhattan Institute indicates that the national graduation rate in 1998 was 74%, rather than 88% as federal reports show. Federal reports include the receipt of alternative high school credentials such as GEDs in calculating the national graduation rate. The Institute report does not. This report ranks states by graduation rates and includes separate rates for Caucasian, African-American and Latino students. In the report's scenario, Iowa led the nation with a 93% graduation rate, followed by Wisconsin and North Dakota, tied at 87%. Get more at <http://www.manhattaninstitute.org>http://www.manhattaninstitute.org Corrections Education Programs Help Prevent Re-Incarceration Inmates who receive vocational training, or high school or college classes, are far less likely to return to prison within three years of their release, says a new study by the Correctional Education Association. The Department of Education supported the study of more than 3,000 prisoners in Maryland, Minnesota and Ohio. Three years after their release, 22 percent of the prisoners who had taken classes returned to prison, compared with 31 percent of the released prisoners who had not attended school while behind bars. The study found that, in addition to improving public safety the education programs produce real financial savings. Researchers found that every dollar spent on corrections education saved two dollars by avoiding the cost of re-incarceration. More at <http://www.nyt.com>http://www.nyt.com and search past week for "correctional education." ____________________________________________________________________ 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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