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[Thomas Sticht]

5/10/2019



The ABC’S of Investing in Adult Literacy Education in Prose, Tweets, and
Pictures



Tom Sticht, International Consultant in Adult Education (Ret.)


In 2005 I wrote an article entitled “ABC’S of Investing in Adult Literacy
Education”.  In this article, for each of the 26 letters of the alphabet, I
wrote a small note. For instance, for the letter “A” I wrote “A- An
investment in adult literacy education usually produces "double duty
dollars," meaning a dollar spent for adult literacy education usually
produces many dollars of returns on investment in improved productivity at
work, at home, in the schools and in the community.” For the letter Z I
wrote “Z - Zest and Zeal for life, greater health, wealth, social
inclusion, social justice, family devotion, greater concern for and caring
for the diversity of humanity and a greater chance for success in the
pursuit of happiness. All these are the realities as well as the
intangibles resulting from adult literacy education.”



Over the years the piece has been reproduced by several groups, including:



http://www.useend.xyz/2010/06/abc-of-investing-in-adult-literacy.html

https://zitac21.blogspot.com/2010/06/abc-of-investing-in-adult-literacy.html



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http://marianthacher.blogspot.com/2010/06/abcs-of-investing-in-adult-literacy.html
)]

http://library.copian.ca/item/5625

A decade later, in 2015, at the request of Sharon Bonney, Executive
Director of the Coalition on Adult Basic Education (COABE), I reduced each
of the 26 alphabet notes to tweet size and COABE posted the tweets saying:
“The ABC’S of Investing in Adult Education –In 140 characters or less!”
COABE tweeted one letter per day during September 1-26 (Adult Education and
Family Literacy Week) to help raise awareness of adult literacy education.

Three years later, in 2018, Branka Marceta of the Capital Adult Education
Regional Consortium (CAERC), Greater Sacramento Region, took the original
ABC’S of Investing in Adult Literacy Education notes for each letter of the
alphabet and embedded them in beautiful illustrations and tweeted one a
week starting with the letter A on Wednesday, October 24, 2018 and ending
with the letter Z  on  April 30, 2019.



If you would like copies of the original piece, the COABE 140 or less
character tweets, and the original CAERC illustrated tweets without having
to search different places, I have included them together in a single
source report entitled, “ABC’s of Investing in Adult Literacy Education in
Prose, Tweets, and Pictures” available for free downloading online at:



https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332912148_ABC's_of_Investing_in_Adult_Literacy_Education_in_Prose_Tweets_and_Pictures



My thanks to all of you who have found the ABC’S Investing piece
interesting, informative, and useful in advocating for adult literacy
education.

The struggle goes on! See:

Sticht, T. (2017). The Struggle for Adult Literacy Education in America A
Trilogy Of Notes on History, Research, Policy, & Practice in Adult Literacy
Education. Free downloading online at:

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55a158b4e4b0796a90f7c371/t/5a08848b8165f51550503a1d/1510507672628/Bk+Trilogy.1.pdf

Sticht, T. (2018). Mainstreaming Marginalized Adults: The Transformation of
Adult Basic Education in the United States. Free downloading online at:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324604141_Mainstreaming_Marginalized_Adults_The_Transformation_of_Adult_Basic_Education_in_the_United_States

tgsticht at gmail.com
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