Return-Path: <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id g6OI2eX01308; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 14:02:40 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 14:02:40 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <NCBBKFFJMKFIFAGAFGNEAEBKDDAA.jlee@famlit.org> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Jon Lee" <jlee@famlit.org> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-FAMILY:1234] Clips and Cross Posts X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; Status: O Content-Length: 3507 Lines: 79 Hey There all! From: Connect for Kids Weekly -- July 22, 2002 July 25 Call-In Day for TANF Leading child advocacy organizations have designated July 25 a "national call-in" day for urging Senators to reauthorize welfare reform in a way that helps low-income families rise out of poverty. Advocates see the Senate Finance Committee-approved TANF bill as a good start, and hope the Senate will improve it further by increasing child care funding and rejecting an increase in required work hours beyond the current 30 per week. http://www.maketanfwork.org/tanf/preleases/pr17.html Infants Lag When Mothers Work Long Hours Preschoolers whose mothers worked more than 30 hours a week during their infancy tend to have poorer outcomes than those whose mothers worked part-time or not at all until the children were nine months or older, according to new research from Columbia University. The former group had poorer cognitive and verbal development by age three, even when other important factors like quality of child care, the home environment and maternal sensitivity to the child were held constant. The authors argue that the findings should spur public debate not over whether mothers should work, but on the business and public policies that work best for families, so mothers can work fewer hours when their children are very young. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/02/07/working_mothers.html As a father of two little girls - Guiding Girls Multiple copies of guides for girls are available for after-school programs and youth groups from Girl Power. "Girl Power! How To Get It" is for girls aged 9 to 11 (http://www.girlpower.gov/girlarea/activity/younger/) and "Girl Power! Keep it Going" is for girls from 12 to 14 (http://www.girlpower.gov/girlarea/activity/older/). http://www.girlpower.gov Connect for Success: Building a Teacher, Parent, Teen Alliance This toolkit from Recruiting New Teachers, Inc. provides teachers with strategies for successfully working with parents from helping parents support schoolwork at home to a chapter on "Sparking Whole School Change." http://www.recruitingteachers.org/news/2002toolkit.html Connecting Kids to Technology: Challenges and Opportunities Young workers with 21st century e-skills will likely prosper in the new economy. But, according to this Kids Count Snapshot report, kids in underserved communities, where home computers and Internet connections are a rarity, will likely be even more disconnected from the computer skills they need for good jobs. http://www.aecf.org/publications/pdfs/snapshot_june2002.pdf New figures for us to use... Census Bureau Report Shows School's "Big Payoff" Higher education equates with higher earnings, especially at the top, according to this new Census report. Over an adult's working life, high school graduates can expect, on average, to earn $1.2 million. Those with a bachelor's degree earn an average of $2.1 million and people with a master's degree, $2.5 million. Earnings are even higher for people with doctoral ($3.4 million) and professional degrees ($4.4 million). Currently, almost 9-in-10 young adults graduate from high school and about 6-in-10 high school seniors go on to college the following year. http://www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/p23-210.pdf Take care! Jon Lee Training Specialist NIFL-Family list moderator National Center for Family Literacy 325 West Main St, Suite 300 Louisville, KY 40202-4237 Phone: 502.584.1133 x175 Fax: 502.584.0172 jlee@famlit.org http://www.famlit.org
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