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Here's an opportunity for an Adult Education student to receive recognition and reward for their writing.  Please share widely. Adult Level Student Essay Writing Contest Sponsored by Cambridge University Press Please Share with Your Colleagues   Click on the "read more" link to learn more. Sponsored by Ca m bridge U niversity Press Califor n ia Teac h ers of E n glish to Speakers of O t h er La n guages proudly prese n ts t h e 2015 Adul t -Level Stude n t Essay Co n test for E S O L stude n ts in adult education a n d n o n -credit co mm u n ity college progra m s t h roug h out t h e state of Califor n ia. Technology through the Ages is the theme of the 2015 Annual CATESOL conference to be held at the Anaheim Hilton in Anaheim, California, November 12-15, 2015. In keeping with the conference theme, the writing prompt for the annual student essay contest is: "Technology in My Old and New Country" Technology is important in every co...

How many of us teaching in the field of Adult Education have been made to feel this way?  And very importantly, why?  How does the larger culture perceive who we serve, what we do, and why?     Adult Ed Teacher Gregory A. Dobie reflects on some of these questions in this CATESOL News article. Hit the link to read his thoughts. “You’re Not a Real Teacher”: Reflections on Adult ESL May 19th, 2015 | By CATESOL News | Category: Conferences , Featuring: Regional Conferences , Regional                By GREGORY A. DOBIE —In 1998 I was teaching an adult ESL class for a public school district in San Antonio. The class met at night in a middle school. One evening I needed to get access to a classroom, so I asked the custodian for a key. He told me that he couldn’t give me the key, saying, “You’re not a real teacher.” I understood what he meant—I wasn’t one of the teachers who taught middle...

This is obviously late in coming.  I'm posting it because I think it provides good information and analysis.  The May Revise only partly changes Gov. Brown's Budget Proposal for Adult Ed.  We need all the help we can get in understanding the possible ramifications of it. Also, whatever happens or has happened in Adult Education these last six years, I imagine some day some graduate student or educational policy academic or historian will put it under a magnifying glass.  I certainly hope they do.  When that happens, blogs like this one will be important digs. Hit the link to read Jeff's analysis. Details of Governor’s Adult Education Proposal Made Public Mar 13th, 2015 | By CATESOL News | Category: Advocacy , News Jeff Frost By JEFF FROST —When the governor’s 2015-2016 state budget was unveiled in mid-January, adult education advocates were encouraged to see that it contained $500 million per year in ongoing funding to develop...