Return-Path: <nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id i1IGmMI24107; Wed, 18 Feb 2004 11:48:22 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 11:48:22 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <1d7.19f092fe.2d64f06c@aol.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: MWPotts2001@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-4EFF:2684] FOCUS on Basics X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: 9.0 for Windows sub 5001 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Status: O Content-Length: 1529 Lines: 37 Posted on behalf of Barbara Garner Go to http://ncsall.gse.harvard.edu/fob/2004/fob_6d.html for the newest "Focus on Basics" A growing number of ABE providers are adding "transition" programs to encourage students to enroll and enable them to persist in postsecondary education. This issue is all about them: why they are important, what the different models are, what the challenges in implementation are. Articles: * Research by John Tyler on why college is important from an economic perspective * Research by Maricel Santos on academic language needs of ESOL learners * An overview of the growing transition movement and a snapshot of different program models by Judy Alamprese and chart by Jessica Spohn and Silja Kallenbach * The role of relationships in making programs work, by Jeanne Belisle Lombardo of Rio Salado College in Arizona. * A team of ABE math experts from around the country talked with Focus on Basics about why math poses such a problem and what to do about it. * The history of a very mature transition program: Massachusetts' ODWIN center, by Mary Tacelli * Instilling post secondary aspirations is often a starting point for programs, as it is at Rhode Island's Dorcas Place (by Brenda Dann-Messier and Eva I. Kampits) * A candid account of the glitches and snags the staff at the transition program at Edmonds Community College in Washington faced in establishing their program * Why transition programs are so important, by World Education's Deepa Rao Barbara Garner Editor, Focus on Basics
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