George,

I'll tell you, it's the language, I just can't take it.  I wish it were 
crisper and more real.   That's why I long for just a couple of pages 
and an executive summary.  I have never viewed EFF in action, or been 
able to talk clearly with a teacher, so the printed material is all 
I've got, and it's opaque.  Personally, I object to the  term "worker." 
  it implies one of a mass, and not in the management "class" either.  
To me, it's a very discouraging word.

I think all the printed material is useful if one wants to know 
something about how the program was put together, that's why i said it 
must have been written to suit many needs.

But I said at the beginning when I started this quest, that EFF may 
give some structure to ABE chaos, or ABE indirection or ABE lack of 
direction.  In that, pure usefulness, it might do well. That's why I 
want  the voices of those who use the materials.

Andrea
On Apr 7, 2006, at 1:29 PM, George Demetrion wrote:


> That's a good observation, David.  It certainly continues, though, as

> you say, not as a federally-sponsored NIFL project.  I suppose the past

> tense had to do with the original incarnation.

>

> George

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> George,

>

> I wonder why you describe EFF in the past tense (e.g. "it was a noble

> experiment").  My understanding is that EFF is alive, and perhaps

> expanding.  A number of states have formally adopted EFF as their set

> of curriculum standards and many (perhaps all?) of these are

> providing EFF training for teachers.  Sometime this year several

> states will roll out the employability credential based on the EFF

> Worker standards.  ETS has state partners and is seeking more to

> develop EFF assessments.  Given that there is no federal support for

> EFF that suggests to me that EFF, unlike APL, has a power in the

> present and may have a good future.

>

> David J. Rosen

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