Hello, everyone.
 
Attached is this week's Thursday Notes from the U.S. Department of
Education, Office of Adult and Vocational Education (OVAE). All three of
the articles concern adult English language learners.
 

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	The first article, Immigrants Assimilate Quickly, But English
Skills May Lag Behind, reports on and links to a new study by the
Manhattan Institute. Researchers created an "assimiliation index" and
looked at immigrants, ranking them by country as to how similar the
immigrants were to the United States' native born population in civic
factors, economic factors, and cultural factors, including English
language ability. 
	
	
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	The second article, EL/Civics Professional Development for
Teachers Online Now, links to an online professional develpment course
developed by the Adult Learning Resource Center.  
	
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	The third article, Hispanics Comprise 44 Percent of Adult Ed
Students, briefly describes Hispanic enrollment in adult education for
the past three years.

Miriam
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Miriam Burt
Center for Applied Linguistics
4646 40th Street NW
Washington, DC 20016
(202) 362-0700
(202) 363-7204 (fax) 
mburt at cal.org <mailto:mburt at cal.org>  (email)
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