> >From the US Department of ED, Office of Vocational and Adult Education:

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>I would like to take this opportunity to announce the launching of the Adult

>Education Content Standards Warehouse. The American Institutes for Research

>(AIR) through a contract with the United States Department of Education

>operates the warehouse, a key feature of a National Leadership activity

>funded under the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act. The warehouse is

>located at: <http://www.adultedcontentstandards.org>.

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>Information gathered though the warehouse is designed to help states

>progress in their development and alignment of content standards and plan

>for curriculum and professional development to implement standards-based

>education. Visitors to the warehouse will see a representative range of

>state content standards as well as nationally developed standards in the

>areas of English language acquisition (ELA), reading, and mathematics.  The

>Web site lets you download an entire standards document, search across

>multiple standards for specific skills and knowledge, take a guided tour to

>see how the site can help in writing standards, and read about each

>standards document submitted for posting (for example).

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>Also visit the warehouse for information about the other activities funded

>under this contract to promote program improvement through the adoption of

>state content standards.  Fourteen states have been working, since October

>2004, in two collaborative groups around the development and alignment of

>content standards for ELA and adult basic education programs. And AIR is

>producing a "how-to" guide for establishing standards-based adult education.

>The guide will be posted on the warehouse, later this summer.

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>Cheryl Keenan

>Director, Division of Adult Education and Literacy

>Office of Vocational and Adult Education

>U.S. Department of Education

>550 12th Street, SW

>Washington, DC 20202-7240

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