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The Mission of the Goodling Institute is to improve family literacy education through research and its application to practice and professional development. Further, the Goodling Institute provides national leadership to support and maintain high quality, integrated programs for families with educational needs.
Family literacy programs build on existing resources to provide integrated educational programs to:
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Improve parents' basic academic and literacy skills;
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Support children's development and emergent literacy skills; and
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Increase parents' skills and knowledge about their rights and responsibilities as their children's first teachers.
These programs provide integrated literacy services focused on families' educational needs, establish community collaborations that build on existing resources, and offer instruction that provide families with the tools and support needed to become self-sufficient.
Family literacy is a relatively new field, requiring researchers to look beyond the traditional disciplines of early childhood education, elementary education, adult education, and parent education and family functioning. Research must focus on how each of these disciplines works together in family literacy settings. To address this need for multi-disciplinary research and development, the Goodling Institute has established a research agenda for family literacy that helps policymakers make research-based decisions about these programs. Effective dissemination of Goodling Institute research findings also helps practitioners to develop professionally and apply research to improve practice at the local level.
Where is the Goodling Institute located? The Goodling Institute, housed within The Pennsylvania State University's College of Education, works collaboratively with the College's Institute for the Study of Adult Literacy and the National Center for Family Literacy (NCFL) Louisville, Kentucky. Operating funds for the Goodling Institute are available through an endowment established at Penn State through a $6 million federal appropriation.
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Goodling Institute
209 Rackely Building, University Park, PA 16802
Phone: (814) 865-5876
goodlinginstitute@psu.edu
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Web page last modified
November 7, 2007
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