Yes, David- I agree with your interpretation.  And I'm also glad you 
mentioned other areas where the term Content Standards could apply.  In 
fact, there has recently been some discussion on the Technology list about 
Standards for using Technology.

Andrea, as regards to print, do you think standards for Reading & Writing 
would apply?  And what about certain applications of print- advocating for 
a point of view if seen through an EFF lens could also bring in the 
standard "Advocate and Influence".  What do you think?

Aaron

At 04:28 PM 3/31/2006 -0500, you wrote:

>Andrea,

>

>My interpretation of "Content Standards" is this: this discussion

>list used to be called "NIFL-4EFF", and used to be about Equipped For

>the Future curriculum standards.  "Content standards" is a broader

>name which includes, but is not necessarily limited to,  EFF

>curriculum standards.  The discussion now includes state-developed

>curriculum frameworks and standards, and presumably curriculum

>frameworks and standards used in other countries.  It could also

>include industry-specific skills standards, as they might be used in

>developing workplace literacy or workplace basic skills curricula,

>although I think no one has brought this up yet.

>

>Aaron, is this interpretation correct?

>

>David J. Rosen

>newsomeassociates.com

>djrosen at comcast.net

>

>On Mar 31, 2006, at 4:08 PM, Andrea Wilder wrote:

>

> > 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

> >

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