Field Notesnew writing, not part of the original site

Field Notes

The Institute’s pages stop around 2011, mid-sentence in some places. These notes pick up the threads: what the numbers looked like later, what happened to the programs, and what a teacher or parent can use today.

They are written for tutors, teachers and families rather than for researchers, and every figure in them comes from a source named in the text. None of them speaks for the Institute or its staff.

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  Adult literacy in Virginia, then and nowThe figures the Institute quoted in 2006–2011, set beside the national surveys that came after.
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  Teaching adults who are new to printWhat twenty years of LESLLA research says about adults learning to read for the first time in a second language.
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  The GED essay: writing the extended responseForty-five minutes, two passages, one argument. How adult learners can prepare for the writing task on the GED.
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  From GED to career pathway: what PlugGED In startedHow a 2009 pilot in Southwest Virginia became a statewide model, and what returning adults face after the credential.
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  Early Reading First: what the preschool grants taughtRichmond held three of these federal grants. Here is what the national evaluation found and what still applies at home.