Bill Goodman sits down with Sharon Darling, president and founder of the National Center for Family Literacy (NCFL) in Louisville, on the next edition of One to One. The program airs Sunday, Feb. 17 at 2/1 p.m. CT on KET1 and Tuesday, Feb. 19 at 7:30/6:30 p.m. CT on KET2.
Darling serves as an advisor on education issues to governors, policy makers, business leaders and foundations throughout the nation. She provides advice and planning strategies for strengthening families through education. Her work has helped shape state and federal policies that address issues such as welfare reform, education reform and the development of a more skilled workforce. On the program, Darling explains how she went from elementary-school teacher to creating the NCFL.
The NCFL provides research, training and technical assistance to people working in literacy. One of the organization’s primary goals is to promote family literacy — parents and children learning together. Darling describes the dramatic change that takes place in an adult as he or she learns to read, and the excitement many parents feel when they gain the ability to help their children learn.
She goes on to discuss the state of education in Kentucky and the rest of the country. Kentucky, she says, played an important role in the launch of the national family literacy movement. She also talks about the link between education and poverty, the importance of early childhood education and new challenges facing education due to America’s growing immigrant population.
One to One is a KET production, produced by Bill Goodman and Cindy Asher. Following the broadcast, One to One is available for on-demand videostream viewing at www.ket.org/publicaffairs/onetoone.htm and podcasting at www.ket.org/rss.
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