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>.

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).

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.

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