[Reading-hall-of-fame] Mainstreaming Marginalized Adults

Sat Apr 14 22:56:33 BST 2018

Free E-book for Spring 2018

Colleagues: Spring has sprung! Time for the blossoming of new ideas,
thoughts, and growth-oriented good things! My 2017 e-book, The Struggle for
Adult Literacy Education in America: A Trilogy Of Notes on History,
Research, Policy, & Practice in Adult Literacy Education, available online
at:  https://www.coabe.org/adult-education-history/, has gotten a good
reception and use.

Now, my new, free, e-book, *“Mainstreaming Marginalized Adults:* *The
Transformation of Adult Basic Education in the United States”, * is
available for those of you looking to while away some of your Spring
moments by a little professional reading.  It ranges from my encounter with
General Dwight D. Eisenhower, on his run for the U.S. Presidency in 1952,
to descriptions of adult basic skills programs teams and I developed which
helped transform ABE in America, to three New York Times articles by Albert
“Al” Shanker, President of the American Federation of Teachers, about some
of the ABE research I led and its powerful implications,  to the passage of
the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2014 with its support of
contextualized and integrated education and training..

I also describe details of interagency coordination activities I performed
on adult basic skills education with the U.S. Departments of Defense,
Education, and Labor as well as activities with several private foundations
and organizations, including the Business Council for Effective Literacy
(BCEL), Wider Opportunities for Women (WOW), the Secretary of Labor’s
Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS), and the Work in America
Institute (WIAI). The e-book discusses dissemination and advocacy efforts
of mine, including Congressional testimony.

All this work helped bring about transformations in adult basic skills
practices and policies that: (1) increase ABE in workplaces through
Workplace Literacy programs; (2) support programs promoting the
intergenerational transfer of literacy abilities from parents to their
children, including two-generation,  Family Literacy programs; and (3)
support a Functional Context Education approach to adult basic skills
education with its emphasis on contextualized and integrated basic skills
and occupational skills training and other integrated basic skills and
content areas such as academic, health, parenting, financial, and civics
education.

Hopefully, some of the instructional practices, advocacy, and lessons
learned reported in the e-book will be of interest and use to those who are
now, or will be later, working in adult basic skills education.

Anyone wanting a free copy of this e-book can get one by sending me an
email:

tgsticht at gmail.com

Spring into action!

Tom Sticht

E-book Title: Mainstreaming Marginalized Adults: The Transformation of  Adult
Basic Education in America

Contents-Page Number

Introduction-4

1. Wars Reveal Need for Human Resources Development-7

2. How Well Do You Have to Read to Do a Job?-10

3. The FLIT (Functional LITeracy) Program-16

4. Evaluation and Dissemination of the FLIT Program-23

5. FLIT Goes National-26

6. Literacy and Human Resources Development at the  NIE-30

7. NIE Liaison With the Department of Defense on Adult Basic Education-33

8. A Year in Heidelberg, Germany and Back Again-37

9. Basic Skills in Defense-41

10. DoD Research on Listening and Reading Skills-44

11. A Time of Transition from the East to the West Coast-47

12. The Experimental Functional Skills Program (XFSP)-51

13. Cast-Off Youth (COY): Employing the Unemployable-56

14. Cast-Off Youth (COY): Functional Context Education (FCE)-59

15. Congressional Testimony on Learning and Literacy-63

16. Transformation: Workplace Literacy in  Adult Basic Education-67

17. The Intergenerational Transfer of Literacy-71

18. The Business Council for Effective Literacy-76

19. The Secretary of Labor’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills
(SCANS)-81

20. The Work in America Institute and Job-Linked Basic  Skills Education-83

21. Workforce Development in a Community College-87

22. WOW on Literacy and Self-Sufficiency for Women-91

23. Transformation:  The Rise and Decline of Adult Basic Education in
America-93

24. Transformation: From Functional Context Education to Contextual and
Integrated Education-98

25. Transformation: From One Generation to Two Generation Programs for the
Intergenerational Transfer of Literacy-103

26. Moving Adult Basic Education from a Lifelong Learning to a Multiple
Life Cycles Education Policy-108

27. Al Shanker, the AFT,  and the Move Toward a Multiple Life Cycles
Education Policy-113

References-115

Appendix A. Adult Basic Skills Work in the United Kingdom-122

Appendix B. Adult Basic Skills Work in Canada-128

Appendix C. Twenty-Five Years on UNESCO’s International Literacy Prize
Jury-133
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