Adult Literacy -- The Big Picture --  Program Standards
Program Standards




National

1)  Equipped For the Future (EFF),
The National Institute for Literacy's Standards Development for System Reform effort
http://www.nifl.gov/nifl/eff.html

2)  SCANS
What Work Requires of Schools: A SCANS Report for America 2000.
The Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills, a publication of the US Department of Labor, June 1991.
http://www.academicinnovations.com/report.html

3) The GED (General Educational Development) Diploma
The Official Site of the GED Testing Service
Sponsored by the American Council on Education
 

State

1)   Proposed revisions to the Massachusetts Department of Educationís
Guidelinesfor Effective Adult Basic Education
http://www.doe.mass.edu/acls/abeguide.htm

2)  Massachusetts Adult Education Curriculum Frameworks
http://www.doe.mass.edu/acls/curriculum_frameworks.htm
 

Community

1)  The Adult Diploma Program at SCALE in Somerville
http://www2.wgbh.org/MBCWEIS/LTC/SCCC/SCALE/adp.html

2)  The Adult Diploma Program at the Community Learning Center in Cambridge
http://www.ci.cambridge.ma.us/~DHSP/clc/adp.html


This page last updated January 6, 2003 by David J. Rosen