Workplace Discussion List Members,

Literacy President 2008 is a non-partisan effort to get adult education 
issues before candidates to make our interests and concerns a part of the 
dialogue of the presidential campaign, as it develops.  You were asked 
earlier on this list to submit possible questions, and now you are being 
asked to select among the submitted questions on the basis of which would 
be the most important to ask the candidates.  Please help make this effort 
the most helpful to our interests as it can be by providing your judgment 
in helping to select the questions.  See the forwarded e-mails from David 
Rosen below to find out how to vote.
Donna

Donna Brian, moderator
Workplace Literacy Discussion List
Center for Literacy Studies at The University of Tennessee
djgbrian at utk.edu




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>Dear Colleague,

>

>The nonpartisan Literacy President survey is off to a good start.  We

>now have over 325 people who have voted on the questions to ask the

>candidates for President.  The top state, way in the lead, is

>Pennsylvania, with over 68 votes on the questions.  Next is

>California with 28, Illinois with 15, then Florida, Massachusetts,

>North Carolina, and New Jersey. Other states also have a few

>participants who have voted.

>

>We have a way to go to reach our goal of 1500 survey participants.

>And currently only one student has voted, so we need to do a lot more

>to get students involved.

>

>If you haven't voted yet, please do. To vote, please go to:

>

>http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=85102489618

>

>If the address breaks into two lines, you can try this one instead:

>

>http://tinyurl.com/s553p

>

>Even if you have voted, please help to get the message out to others.

>Post the message below to adult literacy education electronic lists

>of your organization or state. Voting will take place over the next

>several weeks, but it's important to get the word out as soon as

>possible.

>

>Thanks for your help.

>

>David J. Rosen

>Adult Literacy Advocate

>DJRosen at theworld.com

>

>

>

>On Apr 25, 2006, at 8:20 AM, David Rosen wrote:

>

>

> > Dear Colleague,

> >

> > We need your opinion and your vote.  Literacy President 2008 is a non-

> > partisan effort to increase national awareness of adult literacy

> > regardless of whom is elected.  Literacy President provides members

> > of the adult education community with ways to be active participants

> > in the 2008 Presidential election.  The first activity was generating

> > possible questions to ask the candidates.  We now have 20 possible

> > questions, and they need to be narrowed to the top five.

> >

> > This is your chance to vote on these, to help us narrow them to the

> > top five best questions.  In the 2004 election, Literacy President

> > had over 1000 people -- practitioners, adult learners and others --

> > who voted for  the top priority questions. This time our goal is 1500

> > people participating: students, practitioners and other advocates for

> > adult literacy.

> >

> > To vote, please go to

> >

> > http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=85102489618

> >

> > If the address breaks into two lines, you can try this one instead:

> >

> > http://tinyurl.com/s553p

> >

> >

> > For the Literacy President Group,

> >

> > David Rosen

> > djrosen at comcast.net

> >