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99 CIS H 341113
TITLE: Even Start
and Family Literacy Programs Under the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act
CIS-NO: 99-H341-113
SOURCE: Committee
on Education and the Workforce. House
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve
the full text of testimony
DATE: May 12, 1999
LENGTH:
iv+112 p.
CONG-SESS: 106-1
ITEM-NO: 1015-A; 1015-B
SUDOC: Y4.ED8/1:106-35
CIS DOCUMENT ON DEMAND: 1-800-227-2477
(Full Text Reproductions)
SUMMARY:
Committee Serial
No. 106-35. Hearing to examine issues related to Department of Education child
and family literacy promotion programs, including Even Start program, in
connection with upcoming reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act of 1965.
Supplementary material (p.
39-112) includes submitted statements and witnesses' written statements.
CONTENT-NOTATION: Literacy promotion programs,
extension
DESCRIPTORS:
ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION; EVEN START PROGRAM;
FAMILIES; READING; DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION; ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY
EDUCATION ACT
99-H341-113 TESTIMONY NO: 1
May 12, 1999 p. 4-38, 43-103
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
DARLING, SHARON K. (President and Founder, National Center
for Family Literacy)
HARTMAN, ANDREW J. (Director,
National Institute for Literacy)
KEENAN, CHERYL L.
(Director, Bureau of Adult Basic and Literacy Education, Pennsylvania Department
of Education)
BAILEY, DAYLE (Adult/Parenting Educator,
Even Start Family Literacy Project, Richmond County, N.C)
BROWN, MARY S. (Program Supervisor, Even Start Family
Education Program, Capitol Hill Elementary School, Oklahoma
City Public Schools)
ENGLISH, SISTER BARBARA A.
(representing Notre Dame-AmeriCorps)
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
Support for reauthorization of family literacy programs,
citing success of various programs in literacy promotion; findings of
research-based evaluation of Even Start literacy program accomplishments and
goals; support for continued State administration of the Even Start program,
with details on success in Pennsylvania.
Merits of family
literacy programs in represented localities; importance of literacy promotion
programs, focusing on Even Start.
CONTENT NOTATION:
Literacy promotion programs, extension
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
NATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY
LITERACY; EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH; FEDERAL-STATE RELATIONS; NOTRE DAME-AMERICORPS;
PENNSYLVANIA 
