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Literacy Update

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Literacy Update 2010

Fall 2010: News from the NYS Education Department (PDF 707K)

  • STAR Evidence-Based Reading Instruction
  • Healthy Families Through Health Literacy
  • Honoring Literacy Practitioners
  • Book Industry Guild Softball for Literacy Event

Literacy Update 2008-9

June 2009: New Ideas for WIA Title II (PDF 262K)

  • Creating a 21st Century Adult Literacy System
  • What Research Can Tell Us
  • Skills the Jobless Need
  • Effective Family Literacy

Apr 2009 (PDF 262K)

  • Career Pathways for High School Dropouts
  • Peer Mentors for College Prep Students
  • Career Development in Cypress Hills
  • Transition to Higher Education

Feb 2009 (PDF 263K)

  • Reforming the GED System in NYC
  • Putting the GED to Work
  • Literacy for Older Youth
  • Why We Became a GED Test Site
  • Teaching GED Realism

Jan 2009 (PDF 260K)

  • Professional Development in Massachusetts
  • Professional Development at the Literacy Assistance Center
  • Professional Development at CUNY

Oct 2008 (PDF 251K)

  • Teaching the Formerly Incarcerated
  • Transition to Post-Secondary Education
  • Preparing ABE Students for Jobs
  • Assisting LD Students in the Workplace

Literacy Update 2007-8

May 2008 (PDF 200K)

  • Cheryl Keenan visit
  • Social networking
  • ePortfolios
  • LAC and Moodle
  • Persistence in Educator Learning

March 2008 (PDF200K)

  • Workforce Literacy Policy
  • Family Literacy Employment
  • LI Workforce Literacy
  • LAC Young Adult Programs
  • Strengthening GED Persistence

January 2008 (PDF, 441K)

  • Foundation Proposals
  • Managing Multiple Funding Streams
  • Outcomes-Based Approach to Management
  • Budgeting 101
  • Improving GED test results

November 2007 (PDF, 310K)

  • Getting Better Every Year
  • Mobilizing for Adult Literacy
  • The Cost of Literacy
  • Leadership Excellence: A Learner’s Perspective
  • Students Write Their Future

September 2007 (PDF, 309K)

  • Creating a Core Curriculum
  • Putting Technology in the Classroom
  • Technology in Professional Development
  • Math Myths and Literacy Learning
  • Teaching ESL Math

Literacy Update 2006-2007

May/Summer 2007 (PDF, 380 K)

  • What Do ESOL Students Need? To download a complete version of this article, including references, click here.
  • A Skills Approach to Work Readiness
  • 22nd Annual Literacy Recognition Award Recipients
  • Teaching the Preparing to Work Curriculum

March 2007 (PDF, 328 K)

  • Non-Vocational Adult Education in Europe
  • Enhancing Immigrant Involvement in Public Schools
  • Teaching Basic ESOL Literacy
  • Teaching Soft Skills in the ESOL Classroom


January 2007 (PDF, 286K)

  • Program Performance Improves
  • How We Pay for Low ESOL Funding
  • Assistive Technology and Reading
  • Creating a Successful Learning Environment
  • Dancing Our Way to Better Health

December/Winter2006 (PDF, 298K)

  • Spitzer on Workforce Development
  • Is Professional Development Really Useful?
  • A Case Study in Professional Development
  • What Students Can Teach

September/Fall 2006 (PDF, 372K)

  • Challenges in Global English
  • Dealing with Disabilities
  • Who Attends NYC Literacy Programs

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