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Adult Literacy Resource Institute
A.L.R.I. is a program and staff development center for adult literacy/basic education/ESOL programs in the Greater Boston area. It is one of five regional support centers of the Massachusetts System for Adult Basic Education Support (SABES)
Adult Literacy & Technology Network
A national effort dedicated to finding solutions for using technology to enhance adult literacy. Their mission is to provide leadership in the application and use of technology to enhance international adult literacy by means of conferences, training, technical assistance and communication media.
Adult Numeracy Network
A community dedicated to quality mathematics instruction at the adult level. We support each other, we encourage collaboration and leadership, and we influence policy and practice in adult math instruction.
American Association for Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE)
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
The AAACE is the United States’ premier organization dedicated to enhancing the field of adult learning. Its mission is to provide leadership for the field of adult and continuing education by expanding opportunities for adult growth and development; unifying adult educators; fostering the development and dissemination of theory, research, information, and best practices; promoting identity and standards for the profession; and advocating relevant public policy and social change initiatives.
American Council on Education (ACE)
ACE maintains both a domestic and an international agenda and seeks to advance the interests and goals of higher and adult education in a changing environment.
American Literacy Council
The American Literacy Council provides resources and assistance to persons and organizations who are involved in the literacy crisis in America.
Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTEonline)
Category: Essential skills
The Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE) is the largest U.S. education association dedicated to the advancement of education that prepares youth and adults for successful careers. ACTE is committed to enhancing the job performance and satisfaction of its members; to increasing public awareness and appreciation for career and technical programs; and to assuring growth in local, state and federal funding for these programs by communicating and working with legislators and government leaders.
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BuildLiteracy.org
BuildLiteracy.org is an interactive how-to web site for building and sustaining literacy coalitions. BuildLiteracy.org is an initiative of the American Library Association (ALA) Office for Literacy and Outreach Services (OLOS).
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California Distance Learning Project
Category: Essential skills
The goal of the California Distance Learning Project is to help expand learner access to adult basic education services in California. The purpose of this site is to help adults improve basic skills like reading and spelling using real-life stories on topics of interest to adults. There is a separate section for teachers and adult educators.
Career One Stop
Category: Essential skills
Career One Stop is your online pathway to career success. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, the website features tools to help job seekers, students, businesses and career professionals.
Career Pathways Instructional Materials Library
Category: Essential skills
The Career Pathways Instructional Materials Library, which is affiliated with LINCS, includes materials to help educators develop and implement work-based education programs and career pathways for adult learners in their Adult Basic Education and General Educational Development programs.
Center for Adult English Language Acquisition (CAELA)
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
The Center for Adult English Language Acquisition was created to help states build their capacity to promote English language learning and academic achievement of adults learning English. CAELA has led an initiative to build state capacity for improving the skills of teachers and administrators in adult ESL programs and developing an easy-to-use repository of resources that are accessible through the CAELA website.
Center for Immigrant Education and Training (CIET)
Category: Essential skills
CIET is committed to meeting the needs of immigrant workers by preparing students to enter or advance their careers in different industries. All of the courses seek to train students to be conversant in American workplace culture. This includes being able to map the next steps on their career path, being able to identify skills they already possess and which can be transferred to new positions, as well as enhancing their computer literacy.
Center on Education and Training for Employment
Category: Essential skills
The Center on Education and Training for Employment at Ohio State University engages with state, national and international clients from education, governmental agencies, organized labour, and public and private entities to generate knowledge. This knowledge is useful for understanding workforce development and developing, implementing and evaluating workforce development programs and policies that are informed by best practices and research.
College Reading and Learning Association
The CRLA's goals include promoting standards and competency within the profession and stimulating the self-development and professional growth of teachers and reading specialists at all educational levels.
Commission on Adult Basic Education (COABE)
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
The Commission on Adult Basic Education is organized to advance national and international adult education and literacy opportunities for all persons. COABE strives to promote adult education and literacy programs, including adult basic education, adult secondary education, English for speakers of other languages, family literacy, skills development, workforce development, and other state, federal, and private programs which assist undereducated and/or disadvantaged adults to function effectively in society.
Communicating at Work
Category: Essential skills
The Asian American Civic Association of Boston has created a free website for immigrant adults. Created in response to concerns of its ESOL and training program graduates now working in mainstream American companies, the site is interactive. It features testimonials, learning scenarios and tools to help adult learners improve their communication skills.
Council for Advancement of Adult Literacy
The mission of CAAL is to help advance adult literacy in the United States. To this end, CAAL pursues an agenda of issues that bears critically on policy, practice, and planning, especially at the state and federal levels.
Creative Workplace Learning (CWL)
Category: Essential skills
Creative Workplace Learning (formerly Continuing Education Institute) provides innovative on-site education and training programs to employees in need of basic English and academic skills. A non-profit organization, CWL seeks to provide a national model for adult literacy in the workplace by partnering with students and employers in developing work-relevant learning experiences.
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Education Index
Category: Learning
The Education Index at PhDs.org is the Internet’s premier source of updated, clear educational data about undergraduate and graduate programs in the United States. Using data from the National Center for Education Statistics, the index allows students to search for and rank college programs in the U.S. using special filters. The data spans both undergraduate and graduate institutions at all degree levels.
Education Resources Information Center (ERIC)
Category: Essential skills
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is an Internet-based digital library of education research and information sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. ERIC provides access to bibliographic records of journal and non-journal literature indexed from 1966 to the present. ERIC also contains a growing collection of full-text materials in PDF format including reports from the What Works Clearinghouse.
Employment and Training Administration (ETA)
Category: Essential skills
If workforce development is your mantra, this US Department of Labor site is definitely a place to stop. It offers various and sundry fact sheets, profiles, contacts and all the SCANS (Secretary’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills) reports you’ll ever need.
Exploring Adult Literacy: The Electronic Journal of the Adult Learning Division of the College Reading Association
Exploring Adult Literacy (EAL) is an evolving electronic journal intended to address the needs of adult literacy practitioners in adult basic education, family literacy and workplace literacy.
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First Book
A national nonprofit organization with a single mission: to give disadvantaged children the opportunity to read and own their first new books. The primary goal of First Book is to work with existing literacyprograms to distribute new books to children who, for economic or other reasons, have little or no access to books.
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Gallaudet University
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
Gallaudet University is a world leader in liberal education and career development for deaf and hard of hearing undergraduate students. The university enjoys an international reputation for the outstanding graduate programs it provides deaf, hard of hearing and hearing students, as well as for the quality of the research it conducts on the history, language, culture and other topics related to deaf people.
General Educational Development (GED) Testing Service
Category: Learning
The GED Tests give adults who did not graduate from high school the opportunity to earn a high school equivalency diploma.
Greater Pittsburgh Literacy Council
GPLC's mission is to ensure that adults and out-of-school young adults acquire reading, writing, math, English language, and computer skills so they may reach their fullest potential in life and participate productively in their community.
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Hudson River Center for Program Development (HRCPD)
A nationally recognized not-for-profit corporation specializing in educational resources who develop teaching tools for specific audiences. Their audiences are typically, but not limited to, teachers and other personnel involved with adult education, health promotion, homeless adults, school-to-work initiatives, and incarcerated youth. They provide a variety of teaching tools custom-tailored to your needs and downloadable, for no charge, from this site.
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International Association for Language Learning Technologies
Established in 1965, IALLT is a professional organization whose members provide leadership in the development, integration, evaluation and management of instructional technology for the teaching and learning of language, literature and culture. Its strong sense of community promotes the sharing of expertise in a variety of educational contexts.
International Literacy Institute
Provides leadership in research, development, and training in the broad field of international literacy and development, with an emphasis on developing countries.
International Literacy Network (ILN)
The ILN was launched on September 8, 2001. It is a collaboration of 21 different groups that are all committed to ensuring a stronger international role for literacy in human development efforts worldwide. They realize the vital necessity of finding effective avenues of exposure in order to promote the global advancement of literacy.
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JOBSTART
Category: Essential skills
JOBSTART is an alternative education and training program designed to improve the economic prospects of young, disadvantaged high school dropouts by increasing educational attainment and developing occupational skills. The program has four main components: basic academic skills instruction with a focus on GED (General Educational Development) preparation, occupational skills training, training-related support services such as transportation assistance and childcare, and job placement assistance.
John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development
Category: Learning
The John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development is located at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. It is a university-based research and policy centre dedicated to raising the effectiveness of the American workplace by strengthening workforce education, placement and training programs and policies.
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Learning Disabilities Association of America
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
The purpose of this non-profit organization is to advance the education and general welfare of children and adults of normal or potentially normal intelligence who manifest handicaps of a perceptual, conceptual or coordinative nature. LDA believes that every person with learning disabilities can be successful at school, at work, in relationships and in the community, given the right opportunities.
Literacy Assistance Center of New York City
Founded in 1983, the Literacy Assistance Center is a not-for-profit organization that provides essential referral, training, information and technical assistance services to hundreds of adult and youth literacy programs in New York.
Literacy Information and Communication System (LINCS)
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
Following the closure of the National Institute for Literacy (NIFL), the LINCS project has transitioned to the Office of Vocational and Adult Education (OVAE). LINCS is a national dissemination and professional development system, providing information on literacy research, practice and resources. The goal of the LINCS project has always been to improve communication and information exchange in the field of adult education and literacy nationwide.
Literacy.org
Literacy.org is a gateway to electronic resources and tools for the national and international adult literacy communities.
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National Assessment of Adult Literacy 2002
The NAAL 2002 will assess the current status of the English-language literacy skills of adults in the United States, as well as indicate how literacy proficiencies have changed over time. Reports, sources and information about the NAAL '92 are all available here.
National Center for Education Statistics
NCES studies cover the entire educational spectrum, providing the facts and figures needed to help policymakers understand the condition of education in the nation today, to give researchers a foundation of data to build upon, and to help teachers and administrators decide on best practices for their schools.
National Center for Family Literacy
A nonprofit educational organization whose mission is the advancement and support of family literacy services for millions of families across the United States through programming, training, research, advocacy, and dissemination of information about family literacy
National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL)
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
NCSALL is a federally funded research and development centre focused solely on adult learning. The centre’s efforts are dedicated to improving practice in educational programs that serve adults with limited literacy and English language skills, and those without a high school diploma.
National Coalition for Literacy
The National Coalition for Literacy's Charter is to serve as the umbrella organization for the advancement of literacy in the United States.
National Commission on Adult Literacy
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
The National Commission on Adult Literacy is an independent panel of leaders from labour, business, government, education, literacy and philanthropy. The commission hopes to bring about fundamental legislative change in federal and state policy, increase business and philanthropic engagement in adult education and literacy, and raise public awareness that the adult learning system is integral to people’s lives and the nation’s future.
National Council for Workforce Education
Category: Essential skills
The National Council for Workforce Education is an affiliate council of the American Association of Community Colleges with a vision of developing and sustaining a premier workforce for the global economy. A new study in which NCWE played a role and which is available on the website is titled Building Tomorrow’s Workforce: Promoting the Education and Advancement of Hispanic Immigrant Workers in America.
National Fund for Workforce Solutions
Category: Essential skills
The mission of the National Fund for Workforce Solutions is to improve employment, training and labour market outcomes for low-income individuals. The fund’s vision is that its support will improve both the quality of jobs and the capacity of workers. It will promote change at three levels – individual, institution, and system – leading to better jobs, better workers and a better workforce development system.
National Research Center for Career and Technical Education
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
The mission of the National Research Center for Career and Technical Education is to improve the engagement, achievement and transition of high school and post-secondary career and technical education (CTE) students through technical assistance to states, professional development for CTE practitioners and dissemination of knowledge derived from scientifically based research.
National Work Readiness Credential
Category: Essential skills
The National Work Readiness Credential was developed through a five-year, national consensus-building process that included businesses, unions, chambers of commerce, education and training professionals. The organization’s mission is to assure excellence and inspire innovation in the entry level workplace by producing quality work readiness standards and assessments.
Northeast Regional Technology in Education Consortium (NetTech)
NetTech is a partnership designed to provide the vision, experience, and expertise needed to assist schools (K-12) and other educational institutions in planning, implementing, continuously evaluating, and refining effective educational uses of technology.
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One-Stop Career Center
Category: Essential skills
This site will provide you with information on educational classes, GED testing, job search activities, job training opportunities, public assistance and a variety of other services to help you improve your job-related skills. If you’re unemployed, underemployed or a young adult of age 14 to 21, you may be eligible for these services and programs, which are provided free of charge.
Outreach and Technical Assistance Network (OTAN)
OTAN is designed to provide technical assistance, electronic communication and access to information for adult education providers in California.
The Office of Vocational & Adult Education
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
This site provides useful information about programs, grants and events in the fields of adult education, vocational education, the school-to-work transition and correctional education. Its research and resources help prepare young people and adults for post-secondary education, successful careers and productive lives.
The Ohio Literacy Resource Center
The OASIS WWW server uses a menuing system to connect adult literacy service providers to adult literacy resources available on the internet.
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PBS LiteracyLink
Category: Essential skills
LiteracyLink’s goal is to provide a link for underserved and hard-to-reach adults and their teachers to quality adult basic education and GED preparation tools using technology. Combining video, the Internet, and print materials, LiteracyLink programs are relevant to the needs of the individual learner, adult instructional programs and the workforce. The workplace essential skills online component has 24 free online lessons/activities, each of which includes a video clip supported by its objective, key ideas and follow-up.
Pennsylvania Partners
Category: Essential skills
Pennsylvania Partners represent workforce development professionals in each of the state’s 23 workforce investment areas. Its members oversee and operate employment and training programs administered under the federal Workforce Investment Act and other workforce programs. The organization shares best practices for improving workforce development operations and serves as a clearinghouse for workforce development information.
ProLiteracy Worldwide
Category: Learning
ProLiteracy Worldwide is a merger of Laubach Literacy International and Literacy Volunteers of America, Inc. It is represented in 45 developing countries as well as in the U.S. and serves more than 350,000 adult new learners around the world each year. Its purpose is to sponsor educational programs and services to empower adults and their families by assisting them to acquire the literacy practices and skills they need.
Pro-Net 2000
Pro-Net 2000 is an adult education professional development project funded by the US Department of Education, Office of Vocational and Adult Education (OVAE). The project builds on the professional development activities of the OVAE over the past 10 years.
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ScorecardforSkills.com
Category: Essential skills
The Conference Board U.S. created ScorecardforSkills.com, with financial support from the U.S. Department of Education, to help American organizations measure and demonstrate the relationship between their workplace education investments, including workplace basic skills, and measures of organizational performance.
Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)
Category: Essential skills
SHRM serves the needs of the human resource management professional by providing essential and comprehensive resources. In addition, the society is committed to advancing the human resource profession and the capabilities of all human resource professionals to ensure that HR is an essential and effective partner in developing and executing organizational strategy.
System for Adult Education Support (SABES)
Category: Essential skills
SABES promotes high quality adult basic education services through training, support, and resources that improve the skills and knowledge of practitioners and strengthen programs. It achieves this mission by providing staff development that stresses participation, reflection, and innovation; discovering and sharing relevant research and effective practices; collaborating with other organizations and agencies; and remaining responsive to the field and to adult learners.
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Top Schools
Category: Learning
Top Schools has created a comprehensive database of colleges and universities in the United States. The website presents accurate and up-to-date information regarding school admissions, tuition and financial aid, and provides governmental statistics as well as direct links to school websites. The directory contains resources useful to prospective students and parents interested in advancing their education. It enables individuals to search for an educational institution by criteria including location, subject, size, admissions and graduation rates.
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United States Department of Education
This site is designed to help pursue the President's initiatives, including "No Child Left Behind", and advance the mission as a Department — to ensure equal access to education and to promote educational excellence for all Americans.
U.S.A. Learns
Category: Essential skills
U.S.A. Learns is an outgrowth of a project conceived by the U.S. Department of Education’s adult education and literacy division. The website will help you learn English or improve the basic reading, writing, speaking and problem-solving skills you need to be a productive worker, family member and citizen.
US Federation of Worker Co-operatives
Category: Essential skills
The Democracy at Work Institute is a project of the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives, created to ensure that further growth in the worker cooperative movement actively reaches those economically marginalized workers who need sustainable jobs the most. It is a way to share and build upon the knowledge, skills and resources that worker cooperatives have developed over the years.
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VALUE - Voice for Adult Literacy United for Education
VALUE is a national organization of adult learners (current and former participants in adult basic skills programs) in the United States. VALUE's mission is to expand the role of adult learners in the effort to promote literacy throughout the United States.
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Women Leading Through Reading
This is an initiative with a twofold purpose: to raise awareness about the particular challenges women face as they seek to enhance their literacy skills, and to explore alternative ways for women to improve these skills. This community-based effort addresses issues pertaining to women and literacy by offering book discussion groups for women who are lower-level readers; providing facilitator training and placement; developing women-centered accessible materials for book groups.
Work-basedLearning.org
Category: Essential skills
The Work-Based Learning Project is designed to provide the research, best practices, tools, tips and learning communities necessary to help you design and implement effective work-based learning programs. It is designed to meet the needs of employers, unions, workplace educators and trainers, and officials at the state and local levels responsible for workforce development.
Workforce Strategies Initiative
Category: Essential skills
Workforce Strategies Initiative (WSI) identifies and advances strategies that help low-income Americans gain ground in today’s labour market. To that end, WSI engages in applied research, facilitates dialogue, disseminates findings and shares new ideas.
WorkplaceBasicSkills.com
Category: Essential skills
This website contains information about the benefits of workplace basic skills and workplace education programs. It also offers free tools you can use to evaluate your skill needs, skill gains and economic benefits; advice that will help you build a workplace education program; and links that will help you contact experts and service providers to develop and deliver workplace education programs.
Workplace Bullying Institute
Category: Essential skills
Productivity and learning take a huge hit in the workplace when a bully is hurting someone on staff. The Workplace Bullying Institute (WBI) is the only United States organization dedicated to the eradication of workplace bullying. WBI combines help for individuals, research, public education, consulting for employers and legislative advocacy.
World Education Services
Category: Essential skills
World Education Services (WES) is a leading source of international education intelligence. A not-for-profit organization with over 30 years of experience evaluating international credentials, WES provides more than 50,000 evaluations each year that are accepted by thousands of academic institutions, employers, licensing and certification boards, and government agencies in the U.S. and Canada.
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