Return-Path: <nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id f6QF9lf09605; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 11:09:47 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 11:09:47 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <7a.1842ed96.28918be0@aol.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: DEBBYDAM@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-POVRACELIT:542] RE: Washington Post Article on the NALS X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 138 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Status: O Content-Length: 1254 Lines: 17 Kudos to both Irwin Kirsch and Andy Hartman for their responses to the Post article. As both make clear, our field is about increasing the options of adults to participate in meaningful and rewarding ways in an economy and polity that demands a fairly high degree of facility with print---not to be functional, but to be engaged and challenged to fulfill one's potential. This debate is in many ways about our commitment as a society to support the efforts of adults who seek, often in the face of formidable obstacles, to continue to develop and improve their lives and the contribution they make to the lives of others. Anyone who doubts that failure to support adult learners represents a huge missed opportunity for our society need only have been at the second annual leadership institute of VALUE. By the way, we should applaud the commitment made by Andy Hartmann at that conference, to continue NIFL's support of VALUE's organizational growth and development for an additional two years. Increasingly, as VALUE grows, our field will be able to point to its achievments as testimony to the value of adult education, and to the power of the voice of adults who make the commitment to work on their literacy later in life. DD
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