Well, hello, everyone!

i am putting together a long written piece on adult literacy, a lot of 
work, but there are revelations, too.  The printing press was an agent 
for standardization in chronology and in data, a general unifier of  
many manuscripts (by hand!)  that enabled writers to really communicate 
with each other.  With printing:  the idea that progress, poaitive 
change, could be made, as technological changes  expanded the known 
world.

I am very interested in content standards, a way of measuring I guess 
the attainment of certain skills and knowledge  through print.  In the 
world of the early printing press that would have been impossible:, 
"knowledge" was just being assembled.  The idea of "content standards" 
seems very narrow, circumscribed.  first one must agree on the content, 
;  how does that happen?  CASAS?  EFF?  A bit of a puzzle.

Andrea Wilder