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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hi Tom<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">As ever, you are thoughtful, caring, informative, and quietly passionate.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Reading-hall-of-fame <reading-hall-of-fame-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk> on behalf of Thomas Sticht <tgsticht@gmail.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Thursday, 1 May 2025 at 22:21<br>
<b>To: </b>reading hall of fame <Reading-hall-of-fame@lists.nottingham.ac.uk><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Reading-hall-of-fame] Workers and Mothers of the World Unite in Education<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">May 1, 2025</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Workers and Mothers of the World Unite in Education</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Tom Sticht, International Consultant in Adult Education (Ret.)</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">On May 1<sup>, </sup>2025, we celebrate International Workers Day, also known as May Day, a day for celebrating the working men and women of the world as they labor for personal, family, and community development.
Ten days later, on May 11, we celebrate Mother’s Day. Adult literacy educators have long known about the importance of educating mothers or mothers-to-be for improving the educational development of their children (e.g.: Stewart, C. (1929). Mother’s First
Book: A First Reader for Home Women, available online using a Google search).</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, first signed into law on July 22, 2014, addresses both workforce and mother’s educational needs with a focus on basic skills (English,literacy,numeracy) development
within Title II: Adult Education and Family Literacy Act (AEFLA).</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">A special sub-program within the AEFLA, Integrated Education and Training (IET) focuses directly on workforce education that combines adult basic skills education with workforce preparation and training, focused
in some instances on specific occupational fields.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Significantly, research on workplace education programs has indicated that such IET programs may not only improve the basic skills of the adults in the programs, they may also stimulate adults to better interact
with their children to improve the children’s basic skills thereby increasing family literacy.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Research by Wider Opportunities for Women found that mothers enrolled in basic skills (literacy, numeracy) education, often integrated with job training, reported that they spoke more with their children about
school, they read to them more, they took them to the library more and so forth. These increases in cognitive and non-cognitive behaviors of the mothers’ children happened even though there was no teaching of these types of parenting activities. These types
of changes in the parenting behaviors of </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">the</span><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black"> mothers </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">was</span><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black"> obtained
for free as a spin-off of adult workforce basic skills programs (Van Fossen, S. et al., 1991. Teach the Mother and Reach the Child. , available online using a Google search).</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">See Sticht (2018)for more on how numerous organizations , including the American Federation of Teachers, the Secretary of Labor’s Commission on Necessary Skills, the Work in America Institute, Wider Opportunities
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Women, and adult education in Canada, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and UNESCO, have called for and provided adult basic and workforce skills for Workers and mothers of the United States and the world.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Reference: Sticht, T. (2018). Mainstreaming Marginalized Adults: TheTransformation of Adult Basic Education in the United States (online using a Google search)</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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