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July 27, 2009
 News and Notes from the National Institute for Literacy
Acting Director, Daniel J. Miller
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WHAT'S NEW AT THE INSTITUTE:

*         Launched! Web Site Redesign

Have you visited the National Institute for Literacy's Web site (http://www.nifl.gov<http://www.nifl.gov/>) today?  It's been redesigned.  These are some of the new features and information you'll find:  Read about Learning to Achieve<http://www.nifl.gov/programs/learningtoachieve/learningtoachieve.html>, the Institute's learning disabilities training program; scroll through the updated and revised Assessment Strategies and Reading Profiles (ASRP)<http://www.nifl.gov/readingprofiles/>, a unique interactive Web site designed for adult literacy practitioners and staff developers, and policy makers; visit the new Professional Development pages; click on Applied Research<http://www.nifl.gov/pd/applyingresearch.html> and take the 1-hour self-paced online course<http://www.nifl.gov/research/applyingresearch/player.html> that introduces users to information about scientific research and its relevance to educational decision making.

*         LINCS's Grantee Co-Authors Article in Adult Education Quarterly

Blaire Wilson Toso, who coordinates the Institute's English Language Acquisition Collection for LINCS, co-authored the article "It Feels a Little Like Family to Me," which appears in the current issue of the Adult Education Journal<http://aeq.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/59/4/335>.

Drawing on two qualitative studies of family literacy programs in the Northeastern United States, the article examines the importance of social interaction and support for women in poverty. Wilson Toso and co-authors Kai A. Schafft and Esther Prins concluded that "non-formal adult education and family literacy programs play an important role in helping women in poverty receive social support and in turn enhances their psychosocial well-being." Wilson Toso is also a doctoral candidate in the Adult Education program at The Pennsylvania State University and a researcher at Penn State's Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy.
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