[NIFL-PLI] New issue of "Focus on Basics"
Kim Chaney
kchaney at utk.edu
Tue Sep 6 11:33:10 EDT 2005
from Barb Garner, the Editor of "Focus on Basics"...
>Please post this (to your lists). There's something for everyone in it.
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> The new issue of Focus on Basics is now available on-line, at
>http://www.ncsall.net/?id=818. Subscribers should receive their issues in
>the mail this week.
>
> Corrections Education is the topic of this issue, but adult basic
>educators working in every setting will find articles of relevance to their
>work. A writing workshop provides the glue for the Offender Re-Entry Program
>that serves the Suffolk County (Massachusetts) House of Corrections ,writes
>Bob Flynn in the cover article. Find out how to run such a workshop, and why
>it's so useful.
> Kathy Goebel describes why an emphasis on re-entry is so important
>and the role that education plays in those efforts. NCSALL researcher John
>Tyler finds among racial and ethnic minority offenders - primarily
>African-Americans, with a smaller number of Hispanics - a 20 percent
>increase in the earnings among GED holders relative to non-GED holders in
>the first post-release year. That transition year is crucial, so this is
>good news. However, these effects diminish over time and are not found for
>white ex-offenders.
> In Hawaii, Vanessa Helsham uses Hawaiian cultural references and
>literature in her classes in the Learning Center in the Halawa Correctional
>Facility. She also teaches traditional hula dancing and, in her class,
>members of rival gangs work together. If you're doing it wrong, in hula, you
>have to change. It's like life, she explains. Pauline Geraci writes about
>using a different art form - poetry - in the Minnesota Correctional Facility
>Stillwater
> Dominique Chlup, Texas, provides a chronology of corrections
>education from 1789 and an in-depth discussion of this area over the past 65
>years. Education's role in corrections ebbs and flows as society's views of
>incarceration shift from punishment-oriented to rehabilitative.
> Everyone has a right to an education in Vermont, explains Tom Woods,
>a teacher in the Community High School of Vermont. Read about this school
>and how it serves a transitory population with a huge range of educational
>backgrounds and needs. While certain aspects of being a teacher transcend
>place, some do not. For those Focus on Basics readers who are not
>corrections educators, Dominique Chlup describes what it's like to teach in
>a correctional facility.
> Recognizing that their learners have a high incidence of
>disabilities, low academic skills, and other related challenges, Missouri
>and Ohio are using comprehensive screening systems and putting into place a
>web of follow-up services, including education. Laura Weisel, Alan Toops,
>and Robin Schwarz report on these efforts. Bill Muth shares the results of
>his research on assessing offenders' literacy skills, beliefs, and practices
>and offers a model of literacy assessment that can more meaningfully inform
>placement and instruction. Just as services are learning to work together to
>maximize their effectiveness, so are advisory boards. Marianna Ruprecht,
>Wisconsin, shares how her advisory board used technology to do so.
>
>Barb Garner
>Editor,
>"Focus on Basics"
>
>
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