The following reminder is posted on behalf of David Rosen.


Dear Colleagues,

Beginning today, on the Special Topics Discussion List, we are
pleased to have a panel of expert guests in corrections education.
The topic will focus on research and professional wisdom in
corrections family literacy, and on the transition from corrections
education to community education for inmates who have been released.

Our guests are:

John Linton, Correctional Education, Office of Safe and Drug Free
Schools, U.S. Department of Education

John is the program officer for two correctional education grant
programs ("Lifeskills for State and Local Prisoners" and "Grants to
States for Workplace and Community Transition Training for
Incarcerated Youth Offenders") in the Office of Safe and Drug Free
Schools of the U. S. Department of Education.  John formerly served
the State of Maryland as the director of adult correctional education
programs.  He has been with the federal agency since 2001, originally
with the Office of Vocational and Adult Education.

Stephen J. Steurer, Ph.D., Executive Director, Correctional Education
Association. The Correctional Education Association is a professional
organization
of educators who work in prisons, jails and juvenile settings.

William R. Muth, PhD, Assistant Professor, Reading Education and
Adult Literacy, Virginia Commonwealth University

Bill is an Assistant Professor of Adult and Adolescent Literacy at
Virginia Commonwealth University. Until August 2005, he was the
Education Administrator for the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Other
positions with the FBOP included: reading teacher, principal, and
Chief of the Program Analysis Branch. In 2004 Bill earned his
doctorate in adult literacy from George Mason University. His
dissertation, “Performance and Perspective: Two Assessments of
Federal Prisoners in Literacy Programs” won the College Reading
Association’s Dissertation of the Year Award. His research interests
include Thirdspace and Reading Components theories, especially as
these apply to prison-based family literacy programs and children of
incarcerated parents.

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The following readings are recommended by the panelists as background
for the discussion:

1. "Locked Up and Locked Out, An Educational Perspective on the US
Prison Population," Coley, Richard J. and Barton, Paul E., 2006
Available on line at the ETS web site:

http://tinyurl.com/qmzfa (short URL)

2. "Learning to Reduce Recidivism: A 50-state analysis of
postsecondary correctional education policy," Institute for Higher
Education Policy, Erisman, Wendy and Contardo, Jeanne B., 2005.
Available on line at the IHEP web site:

http://tinyurl.com/pj2sh (short URL)

3. "Understanding California Corrections" from the California Policy
Research Center, U of C. (Chapter 4)
http://www.ucop.edu/cprc/documents/understand_ca_corrections.pdf

John Linton believes that California is a watershed state in
corrections issues and policies , and that how things unfold there
has great national significance.  He says that this is a thoughtful
and well-informed report on the "overview" of the corrections
situation in California -- including the role of treatment programs.
Education is not presented as a central issue, but it has a place --
as a piece of a bigger puzzle.

4. An article by Bill Muth in Exploring Adult Literacy can be found at

http://literacy.kent.edu/cra/2006/wmuth/index.html

The article contains other on-line links related to prison-based
intergenerational programs. He recommends especially the link to the
Hudson River Center's excellent publication, Bringing Family Literacy
to Incarcerated Settings: An Instructional Guide at:

http://www.hudrivctr.org/products_ce.htm

David J. Rosen
Special Topics Discussion Moderator
djrosen at comcast.net




Gail J. Price
Multimedia Specialist
National Center for Family Literacy
325 West Main Street, Suite 300
Louisville, KY 40205

Phone: 502 584-1133, ext. 112
Fax: 502 584-0172


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