In a message dated 12/5/2005 8:54:22 P.M.  Eastern Standard Time, 
degeneso at gse.harvard.edu writes: "...I am a doctoral  student at Harvard University 
Graduate School of Education, and I am working on  a dissertation on family 
literacy. (My adviser is John Comings, the director of  the National Center for the 
Study of Adult Learning and Literacy.) For my  dissertation, I am looking at 
instructional practices in urban family literacy  programs across the country in 
order to get a better idea of what kind of  instruction is taking place and 
how this instruction is similar and different in  different cities as well as 
in different types of programs..."  

There is one type that will NOT be found in any of the cities you study is  
including and that is: "Starting a Tutoring Course for Family Members in Your  
Local Adult Community Education Program" one that is specifically designed to  
help parents learn how to tutor their child when the child first begins to  
experience difficulties in learning to read and spell.  For more  information 
on how this could be done (but isn't being done) visit 
_http://www.spelling.org/Workshops/Workshop_9.htm_ (http://www.spelling.org/Workshops/Workshop_9.htm) 
 
Don McCabe