How about expanding this to include international
literacy experts and movers and shakers, who have 
impacted the status of literacy globally? Brian
Street, Alan Rogers, Madhav Chavan, Farida Lambay...
Regards
Ujwala 
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>  Elsie Auerback, Vivian Gadsen Ground breakers and

> respected researchers who analyzed the

> socio-economic contexts of family literacy as a

> concept and then linked it to program models 

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> Victoria Purcell-Gates - to brought research about

> how the communities value  families and literacy as

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> their homes

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> Patricia Edwards - parents as partners in reading --

> works to understand how parents and reading is

> connected with early literacy learning in schools

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> Leslie Morrow - who made  intergenerational

> literacy in families  the focus 

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> I'm sure there are more giants for the rest of us to

> stand on their shoulders and view the field of

> family literacy.

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> Jeri Levesque, Ed.D.

> Evaluator, Missouri and Kentucky Even Start Programs

> LIFT

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> From: Gail Price <gprice at famlit.org>

> To: The Family Literacy Discussion List

> <familyliteracy at nifl.gov>

> Sent: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 2:20 pm

> Subject: [FamilyLiteracy 909] Re: Big Names in

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> Tom Sticht in his Seven Pioneering Adult Literacy

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