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The
Adult Education Content Standards Warehouse project is designed to
help states progress in the development, alignment, and implementation
of state content standards. http://www.adultedcontentstandards.org/default.asp |
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The
Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy's Web site was recently updated. To directly download the policy brief mentioned in the message below, titled "Even Start's Impact on Families," go to http://www.ed.psu.edu/goodlinginstitute/pdf/policy_brief_impact.pdf |
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This
site lists many organizations (of which most, if not all, receive
federal funding) that provide information on working with diversity
and general information on parent, school, community partnerships. www.knowledgeloom.org |
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The
National PTA site has many useful resources for parents and educators
alike. You'll find many documents written in Spanish, as well as Chinese,
Cambodian, Korean, and Vietnamese. www.pta.org/parentinvolvement/standards/appenda.asp www.pta.org/parentinvolvement/standards/pfichallenge.asp#Teacher www.pta.org/parentinvolvement/standards/ |
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This
site contains useful information from the National Education Association
on ways to encourage and promote parent involvement. It also contains
valuable resources to download regarding parent teacher conferences
and how parents can help students succeed in school. http://www.nea.org/parents/ |
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This
site has useful information for adult literacy instruction and those
involved with family literacy programs. www.nifl.gov/partnershipforreading/publications/adult.html www.nifl.gov/partnershipforreading/adult_reading/adult_reading.html This is a new website that focuses entirely on reading instruction, published by the Partnership for Reading under the US Dept of Education. www.nifl.gov/partnershipforreading/publications/k-3.html |
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The
Kansas Learning First Alliance is a partnership between 25 state educational
organizations whose goal is to promote quality public education in
Kansas through three initiatives: 1) engaging the public through encouraging
and sponsoring community conversations, 2) supporting professional
development, and 3) focusing on increasing student success. www.teachkansas.org |
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Thinkfinity
connects literacy organizations, volunteers and people who want
to learn more about supporting literacy -- and to provide online
information to these audiences. Thinkfinity is funded through a
generous grant from Verizon Communications. |
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The
W.K. Kellogg Foundation is a nonprofit organization whose mission
is to apply knowledge to solve the problems of people. Its founder
W.K. Kellogg, the cereal industry pioneer, established the Foundation
in 1930. |