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 e8J48O921011; Tue, 19 Sep 2000 00:08:24 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 00:08:24 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <NDBBIIAMELHODBHLMPKIEELFCCAA.nsledd@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: "Nancy Sledd" <nsledd@famlit.org> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-FAMILY:3155] FW: Excerpts from Connect For Kids Weekly -- September 18, 2000 X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; Status: O Content-Length: 6073 Lines: 126 ********************************************** Connect for Kids Weekly--September 18, 2000 ********************************************** **When Welfare Works Last week, women from around the country came together to share their experiences with our nation's public welfare system. They came as part of the Welfare Made a Difference national campaign, to speak, in their own words, about what really helps families move out of poverty. Caitlin Johnson reports. http://www.connectforkids.org **Welfare in the First Person Many families have escaped poverty with the help of welfare, but that's not the picture of welfare recipients that American people usually see. The Welfare Made a Difference Campaign shares personal stories of past and present welfare recipients from all regions of the country and all walks of life. The campaign's goal is to show the virtues of a supportive and adequate welfare system and the consequences of punitive welfare policies. http://www.connectforkids.org __________________________ CONNECT TODAY **How Welfare Makes a Difference A new public education campaign challenges misconceptions about welfare in preparation for the upcoming elections -- and reauthorization of the federal welfare reform act. Do you have any stories about how welfare has helped -- or could help -- families move out of poverty? http://www.connectforkids.org/thread_msg2033/thread_msg_show.htm?message_id= 24352 **For Family-Friendly Companies "Working Mother" magazine has issued its 15th annual list of top employers, honoring the 100 companies deemed best at helping working moms balance their careers with the rest of their lives. http://www.workingmother.com. __________________________ FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES **Ideas from Public Education Network The Public Education Network e-newsletter compiles news about funding sources for schools and communities each week. http://www.PublicEducation.org/news/signup.htm **Federal Funding for Community Health Programs The Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children Program offers federal funding for community-based health initiatives to improve the health of mothers, infants, children and adolescents. To Receive a Grant Application, contact the HRSA Application Grants Center and request application number: CFDA #93.110V. http://www.aap.org/advocacy/annce2000.htm **Funding for Anti-Hunger Programs The Food Research and Action Center has put together a good list of non-nutritional funding sources for after-school programs. http://www.frac.org/html/building_blocks/newssummer2000.html **Multidisciplinary Research Funding "The Science and Ecology of Early Development" 2000 initiative invites research grant applications to help create a science base on the development of children living in low-income families. For information, contact Natasha Cabrera <cabreran@exchange.nih.gov> or Cheryl Boyce <cboyce@nih.gov> http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAS-00-108.html **National Book Scholarship Fund Open for Applications Laubach's National Book Scholarship Fund distributes books and other educational material to adult literacy and education programs nationwide. Grant application materials are available online until Nov. 30. Applications are due by December 7. http://www.laubach.org/NBSF/indexnbs.html TECHNOLOGY TALK **Teachers' Tools for the 21st Century Based on 1999 survey data, this National Center on Educational Statistics report found that about half of those teachers who have computers available in their schools are using them for student instruction. Teachers were more likely to use computers and the Internet when enough computers were available in their classroom (as opposed to computer labs) and when teachers felt well-prepared to use the new technologies. http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2000102 **State of the Internet 2000 Today there are more than 3,000 times the number of people online as there were in 1993, according to the "State of the Internet 2000." The report points to trends favorable to narrowing the digital divide and opening up a world of new opportunities to low-income families. http://usic.wslogic.com/intro.html **Kids who Read Poorly Benefit from Adult Mentors Adult mentors can help kids who read poorly, according to a U.S. Dept. of Education study. After adults in Washington DC's Power Lunch Program read once a week with second and third-grade who lagged behind in reading skills, the students' academic performance, classroom behavior and enthusiasm for learning improved, especially among boys. http://www.ed.gov/offices/OUS/eval/elem.html#Miscl **From the Margins to the Mainstream: an Action Agenda for Literacy This report from the National Literacy Summit calls for a system of high quality adult literacy, language and lifelong learning services to help adults in every community make measurable gains. Focusing on resources, access and quality, the report puts new emphasis on federal and state funding to sustain a system of adult literacy services. http://www.nifl.gov **Children in the States "Children in the States" from the Children's Defense Fund charts the health, education, child poverty rates and other measures of children's well-being. Vermont ranked first in the nation for children's health insurance coverage, with only 6.4 percent of children without health insurance, while Arkansas (22.6 percent), Texas (25.3 percent), and Arizona (25.6 percent) ranked last for the proportion the states' children without health coverage. New Jersey led the nation in per-pupil spending, at $9,361, while Utah ranked 51, spending an average $3,604 per pupil. http://www.cdfactioncouncil.org/childrensdatahome.htm **************************************** ABOUT CONNECT FOR KIDS The Connect for Kids Weekly is an electronic newsletter of Connect for Kids (http://www.connectforkids.org/), a resource for adults who want to build better communities for kids and families. The Benton Foundation, our publisher, works to realize the social benefits made possible by the public interest use of communications.
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