[Blindtlk] Letter on Teaching Braille

[Ringlein, Ellen]

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Ellen Ringlein

-----Original Message-----
From: blindtlk [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of David Andrews
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2013 4:00 PM
To: david.andrews at nfbnet.org
Subject: [Blindtlk] Letter on Teaching Braille


>
>FYI,
>
>See the attached letter from the U.S. Department of Education that 
>calls for increased attention to the need for better instruction in braille.
>
>
>Edward C. Bell, Ph.D., CRC, NOMC
>
>REGISTER TO TAKE THE NATIONAL CERTIFICATION IN LITERARY BRAILLE (NCLB) 
>Exam http://www.nbpcb.org/pages/announcements.php
>
>Director, Professional Development and Research Institute on Blindness 
>Louisiana Tech University
>210 Woodard Hall
>PO Box 3158
>Ruston LA  71272
>Office: 318.257.4554
>Fax: 318.257.2259 (Fax)
>Skype: edwardbell2010
>ebell at latech.edu
>www.latech.edu/instituteonblindness
>********************
>"I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of 
>Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent 
>have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."
>-- Stephen Jay Gould
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Harris, Jill" <Jill.Harris at ed.gov>
>To: <ebell at latech.edu>
>Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 12:30 PM
>Subject: Braille Letter has Cleared!
>
>
>Professor Bell,
>
>Thank you for your help with this letter to the field.  It cleared 
>today and I wanted you to be the first to have it.  I look forward to 
>working with you again.
>
>
>Jill Harris, ESQ.
>Office of Planning and Policy
>OSERS
>US Department of Education
>
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