Hi everyone,

Kaye Beall's posting noted some of the challenges facing administrators
of adult education programs. Another possible source of information for
administrators looking to answer the questions she poses is to look at
what other programs are doing. The new issue of CAELA Currents,
available at http://www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/ccjan06.html,
reports on the activities and plans of the 24 states enrolled in the
CAELA state capacity-building initiative, and also makes available some
states' contact information to allow administrators to ask questions
directly of each other. 

Other issues of interest in the newsletter include information about the
National Adult Assessment of Literacy (NAAL), an update on the CAELA
research collection, and a summary of the National Summit for Action
held at Georgetown University in November 2005. Sponsored by Georgetown
University, the National Coalition for Literacy, and the Verizon
Foundation, this summit was held to consider the next steps in a
literacy agenda for the United States. 

The complete table of contents for the Winter 2006 CAELA Currents is as
follows:

	CAELA State Team Summaries
<http://www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/ccjan06.html>  
	Second CAELA Technical Working Group Meeting Held
<http://www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/ccjan06.html> 
	NAAL Results Released December 15, 2005
<http://www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/ccjan06.html> 
	CAELA's Resources: The Research Collection
<http://www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/ccjan06.html>  
	Next Steps in the Literacy Agenda: Thinking About Adults
Learning English  <http://www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/ccjan06.html> 
	Two New CAELA Briefs
<http://www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/ccjan06.html>  

If you have information that you would like to have considered for
including in the newsletter, you can contact the editor at
miriam at cal.org

To subscribe to CAELA Currents, send a message to caela at cal.org.
<mailto:caela at cal.org> 

Julie Mathews-Aydinli
Center for Adult English Language Acquisition

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