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   GAIL SPANGENBERG – President, National Council for Adult Learning  —- The recently announced Barbara Bush Foundation XPRIZE for Adult Literacy has been met with a mixture of reactions and NCAL has heard from many colleagues in Adult Education about it.  Nearly all are pleased and hopeful about the initiative.  To succeed, however, the initiative will have to be well informed in a number of substantive areas –– e.g., different instructional design(s) for both students and facilitators… appropriate instructional design(s) for different kinds of low-level learners…various assessment and ongoing evaluation tools, in addition to what CASAS will provide…effective strategies for student recruitment and retention…findings from research and practice (so that the effort shows awareness … Continue reading →