The National Center for Family Literacy (NCFL) has their own blog
http://www.famlit.org/blog
I am getting tired of adult literacy being left out of the debate over the dropout rate for kids. Consistently the talk is that parents must be more involved. They said it again on one of this Sunday's news programs. When this is mentioned, they rarely (almost never) acknowledge that parents who can not read well and lack a diploma, just don't have the skills or knowledge of how to work with children. That's 43% of the US adults who read at basic or below basic level.
NCFL gets it, but many other kid focused literacy programs don't.
So, what is comprehensive family literacy? More about this in my next post.
Sandy Newell
Presdient, VALF
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