The Adult Education Content Standards Warehouse project,funded by the
Office of Vocational and Adult Education, was designed to help states
progress in the development, and alignment of state content standards.
Under that project, the American Institutes for Research (AIR) developed
a Process Guide for Establishing Adult Education Content Standards.  The
guide outlines processes for moving toward fully integrated
standards-based education, including planning, developing, reviewing and
implementing standardards.  It was based on field research as well as
the literature on standards development and can be found at the AECSW
Web site at http://adultedcontentstandards.org   In addition, the AECSW
site is a repository for state and national adult education content
standards in Reading, Mathematics and English Language Acquisition. The
warehouse also allows users to search and retrieve standards documents,
explore specific content within any given set of standards, and generate
reports to show multiple standards within a discipline.  While the
project has ended, the warehouse continues to be updated as new states
develop standards in the above disciplines. 

Renee Sherman

American Institutes for Research 
1000 Thomas Jefferson, NW 
Washington, DC 20007-3541 
202-403-5327 
rsherman at air.org 


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From: contentstandards-bounces at nifl.gov
[mailto:contentstandards-bounces at nifl.gov] On Behalf Of Aaron Kohring
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 8:55 AM
To: AE Content Standards
Subject: [ContentStandards 80] What are States doing with Standards?

Greetings all,

After reflecting on postings from the past week on National Standards, I
reviewed questions that subscribers have sent to me about Standards, in
general.  The most common question appears to be: What are States
currently doing with Standards?

What is the process that States have gone through when developing or
creating Standards, adopting or adapting existing Standards (such as
Equipped for the Future or other Standards), or combining/linking 2 or
more sets of standards?  What have been the major challenges in this
process?  What have been the benefits?  What changes have you seen in
your adult literacy programs as a result of the process?

Are any States willing to share with us?

Thanks,
Aaron


Aaron Kohring
Coordinator, LINCS Literacy & Learning Disabilities Special Collection
(http://ldlink.coe.utk.edu/)
Moderator, National Institute for Literacy's Content Standards
Discussion List (http://www.nifl.gov/mailman/listinfo/Contentstandards)
Coordinator, Equipped for the Future Websites (http://eff.cls.utk.edu/)

Center for Literacy Studies, University of Tennessee EFF Center for
Training and Technical Assistance
Phone:(865) 974-4109 main
           (865) 974-4258 direct
Fax:   (865) 974-3857
e-mail: akohring at utk.edu

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