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Adult Learner Transitions to Higher Education
Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count.
This multiyear national
initiative to help more community college students succeed is particularly
concerned about student groups that traditionally have faced significant
barriers to success, including students of color and low-income students.
Achieving the Dream works on multiple fronts, including efforts at community
colleges and in research, public engagement and public policy. It emphasizes
the use of data to drive change. www.achievingthedream.org
Breaking Through Initiative: Helping Low Skilled
Adults Enter and Succeed in College and Career.
A partnership of Jobs for the Future and
The National Council for Workforce Education, the goal of this initiative
to strengthen post-secondary outcomes for low-income adults by focusing
on strategies that create more effective pathways into and through pre-college
and degree-level programs. www.breakingthroughcc.org
Lumina Foundation for Education, Adult Learner Initiative.
Only one in
six students fits the mold of the “typical” 18-year-old who
enrolls at a residential campus, stays four years and graduates with
a baccalaureate degree. Adult students (25 years of age and older) are becoming
the new majority on campuses across the nation, and many of these students
face language barriers and deficiencies in academic preparation. To succeed
in school, these students need very different services -- services that
Lumina Foundation and its partners are working to identify and test. www.luminafoundation.org/adult_learners/index.html
National College Transition Network
See
Adult Transition
and the National College Transition Network by Cynthia Zafft. Site was developed
as a joint effort by the New England Literacy Resource Center and the Nellie
Mae Education Foundation to provide an online resource for Adult Basic Education
providers who wish to implement an effective college transition program in their
community. www.collegetransition.org/
Posters Promote Postsecondary Opportunities
Downloadable posters on this
site use colorful graphics to illustrate the advantages of postsecondary
education and training, comparing education to income, unemployment,
etc. The Postsecondary Education Opportunity site is hosted by the Mortensen
Research Seminar on Public Policy. /www.postsecondary.org/ps/ps_02.asp
Family Literacy
Make Beliefs Comix
This free site from author Bill Zimmerman can be
used by educators to teach language, reading and writing skills, and
for students in English-as-a-Second-Language programs to facilitate self-expression
and storytelling. Parents and children can create stories together, print
them to create comic books or email them to friends and family. www.makebeliefscomix.com/
Early Childhood Education: Dialogic Reading
The What Works Clearinghouse, an initiative of the U.S. Department of
Education’s Institute of Education Sciences, recently released a
report on the use of dialogic reading -- an interactive shared picture
book reading practice designed to enhance young children’s language
and literacy skills. During the shared reading practice, the adult
and the child switch roles so that the child learns to become the storyteller
with the assistance of the adult, who functions as an active listener
and questioner. whatworks.ed.gov/InterventionReportLinks.asp?iid=271&tid=13
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