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<DIV><SPAN class=880204423-21012010>Hello! At Cohort 5 Training Session
Two, I mentioned the paper "America's Early Childhood Literacy Gap" has great
summaries, quotes, and bits of information from a variety of research. In
particular, I mentioned that they reference three different instances
in which government agencies use test scores to plan
prisons. I've copied the quotes below, you can read them in context
and find citations/bibliographic references on Page 6 of the document
at <A
href="http://www.readfortherecord.org/site/DocServer/America_s_Early_Childhood_Literacy_Gap.pdf?docID=3923">http://www.readfortherecord.org/site/DocServer/America_s_Early_Childhood_Literacy_Gap.pdf?docID=3923</A>.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=880204423-21012010>-"...because seven in ten prisoners perform
at the lowest literacy skill levels, the state of California once planned how
many jail cells they would build in the future by how many children are not
reading on grade level by fourth grade."</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=880204423-21012010>-"Indiana Senator Evan Bayh has stated that
determining the number of new prisons to build is based, in part, on the number
of second graders not reading at second-grade level."</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=880204423-21012010>-"Dr. Grover (Russ) Whitehurst... Assistant
Secretary of Education with the US Department of Education under the Bush
administration stated that the predictability of reading for life success is so
strong, that if you look at the proportion of middle-schoolers who are not at
the basic level, who are really behind in reading, it is a very strong predictor
of problems with the law and the need for jails down the line"</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=880204423-21012010>I encourage you to take 5-10 minutes
to quickly skim through this paper to remind yourself the tremendous value
of the work you are doing, and to highlight quotes and information you want to
use with parents or your programs/library boards in the
future.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=880204423-21012010>Thank you,</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=880204423-21012010>Katie</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV align=center>Katie Anderson, Library Development Services</DIV>
<DIV align=center>* Youth Services Consultant * Oregon Center for the Book
Coordinator *</DIV>
<DIV align=center>Oregon State Library, 250 Winter St. NE, Salem, OR 97301</DIV>
<DIV align=center><A
href="mailto:katie.anderson@state.or.us">katie.anderson@state.or.us</A>,
503-378-2528</DIV>
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