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 g5BBmNC16808; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 07:48:23 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 07:48:23 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <NCBBKFFJMKFIFAGAFGNEMECFDCAA.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:1181] 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: 2893 Lines: 71 Good Morning! From: Connect for Kids Weekly -- June 10, 2002 http://www.connectforkids.org/ to subscribe... It takes a while to navigate this site...but there is lots of good info available. School Funding Services The Education Commission of the States lists this interactive online tool that helps users identify and access federal, state and private dollars available to fund education improvement programs. The service is a unit of New American Schools, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization whose mission is to increase student achievement and improve schools. http://www.ecs.org/html/newsMedia/e-Connection.asp#ow Don't be frightened by the size of this report. If you work with adolescence whose family is part of the welfare system you will be interested in pages 24-45. How Welfare and Work Policies for Parents Affect Adolescents: A Synthesis of Research. Pulling together the research on teens in welfare families, this Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation report documents the need for caution in welfare policies that impose rigid work requirements on families. New findings indicate that negative effects on teens are concentrated among the adolescents who have younger siblings, and these teens show not only worsening school performance but troubling effects like dropping out of school and suspensions. http://www.mdrc.org We are all aware of the points that this little report brings out, but I was after it for the bibliography! 28 pages and 86 references...someone was doing their homework! Making Ends Meet: Six Programs That Help Working Families and Employers. http://www.clasp.org/pubs/jobseducation/Making%20Ends%20Meet.pdf If you are a policy specialist...you'll want to check these out... Side-by-Side Comparisons of Provisions in Recent TANF Reauthorization Proposals. Developed jointly by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and the Center on Law and Social Policy, these charts summarizing child care, work and child welfare provisions in current Temporary Assistance for Needy Families law and recent reauthorization proposals. http://www.clasp.org/pubs/TANF/tanffederal.htm The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and the National Association for the Education of Young Children say...Don't forget the math! http://www.naeyc.org/ then to the "NAEYC resources" link Demographic characteristics of households and families are collected annually in the March Current Population Survey (CPS) for the Nation. Detailed information from recent surveys and historical trends in selected topics are listed on this site, from Census 2000. http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/hh-fam.html 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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