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Download full textSpeights, Dave – Office of Educational Research and Improvement, 2001
From the perspective of the field of adult literacy, the year 1999 is best seen not as the penultimate year of the millennium but as the year bookended by the reauthorization of the National Literacy Act in late 1998 and the National Literacy Summit of early 2000. Both of those events represent a huge milestone, and 1999 may be regarded as the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Program Effectiveness, Family Literacy
Office of Vocational and Adult Education (ED), Washington, DC. Div. of Adult Education and Literacy. – 1993
The directors of adult education from the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the territories met to discuss implementation of the National Literacy Act and Adult Education Act (AEA) and to begin the process of developing recommendations regarding reauthorization of AEA in 1995. The forum discussions centered around the following aspects of…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Administrators, Adult Education, Adult Literacy
Van Duzer, Carol H.; Berdan, Robert – Office of Educational Research and Improvement, 1999
This chapter seeks to provide the field of education for adult English speakers of other languages--at local, state, and national levels--with a timely overview of the state of assessment in adult English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) programs in the United States. It also seeks to provide a brief description of assessment reform…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Standardized Tests, Adult Education, Adult Learning
