[NIFL-FAMILY:2107] Re: Announcement from OVAE

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Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 15:59:57 -0400 (EDT)
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An NIFL-recommended web site, which is subscription-based, is free to
educators, schools and libraries.  Its interactive format is especially
conducive to adult learning.  The principal purpose of the web site,
AwesomeStories.com, is to provide a teaching/learning tool which makes
history come alive with primary sources.  With thousands of links to the
Library of Congress, National Archives and similar institutions
world-wide, the site - which aims to make reading fun - is consistently
described as "a teacher's dream come true."  Educators can request free
academic membership at the site's main URL: 
http://www.awesomestories.com/ 

Carole Bos
Editor, AwesomeStories.com

>>> dnichols@famlit.org 05/27/05 3:36 PM >>>
>From the US Department of ED, Office of Vocational and Adult Education:
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I would like to take this opportunity to announce the launching of the
Adult
Education Content Standards Warehouse. The American Institutes for
Research
(AIR) through a contract with the United States Department of Education
operates the warehouse, a key feature of a National Leadership activity
funded under the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act. The warehouse
is
located at: <http://www.adultedcontentstandards.org>.

Information gathered though the warehouse is designed to help states
progress in their development and alignment of content standards and
plan
for curriculum and professional development to implement standards-based
education. Visitors to the warehouse will see a representative range of
state content standards as well as nationally developed standards in the
areas of English language acquisition (ELA), reading, and mathematics. 
The
Web site lets you download an entire standards document, search across
multiple standards for specific skills and knowledge, take a guided tour
to
see how the site can help in writing standards, and read about each
standards document submitted for posting (for example).

Also visit the warehouse for information about the other activities
funded
under this contract to promote program improvement through the adoption
of
state content standards.  Fourteen states have been working, since
October
2004, in two collaborative groups around the development and alignment
of
content standards for ELA and adult basic education programs. And AIR is
producing a "how-to" guide for establishing standards-based adult
education.
The guide will be posted on the warehouse, later this summer.

Cheryl Keenan
Director, Division of Adult Education and Literacy
Office of Vocational and Adult Education
U.S. Department of Education
550 12th Street, SW
Washington, DC 20202-7240

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