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Special Series: Adults with Low Academic Skills - Journal of Learning Disabilities
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The Network is being featured in a Special Series on Adults with Low Academic Skills in the Journal of Learning Disabilities. Check out this incredible work from Daphne Greenberg and Dolores Perin!
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Announcement - ALL IN: The Adult Literacy and Learning Impact Network
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The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy announces ALL IN: The Adult Literacy and Learning Impact Network, a new collective action initiative formed to implement the National Action Plan for Adult Literacy (NAP). Working together, we are committed to creating a country where every adult can improve their literacy skills – regardless of who or where they are.
Check out the press release and new website to learn more!
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Press Release: U.S. Department of Education Launches $1 Million Future Finder Challenge to Reimagine Career Navigation for Adult Learners
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U.S. Department of Education Launches $1 Million Future Finder Challenge to Reimagine Career Navigation for Adult Learners
Multistage challenge will advance digital tools that meet the unique needs of adult learners
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
Contact: Press Office, (202) 401-1576, press@ed.gov
Today, in recognition of National Adult Education and Family Literacy Week, the U.S. Department of Education (Department) is proud to launch Stage 1 of the Future Finder Challenge, a $1 million challenge to reimagine career navigation for…
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All New SkillBlox Launch Announced!
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Thanks to generous funding from the WES Mariam Assefa Fund, we are excited to announce the launch an all new SkillBlox! As part of a planned, phased release, a Digital Literacy subject area has been added, as well as the ability to add your own content and add notes to all activities within the skillblox you create! In the coming months, you'll also see the addition of five additional subjects—Financial Literacy, Health Literacy, Civics Education, Workforce Preparation, and ESOL— as well as the ability to save and copy skillblox created by others.
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ASAP Releases New Equity Statement
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The Adult Skills Assessment Project (ASAP) is addressing the bias that underlies traditional assessment development and validation. This bias does not recognize how oppressive systems like racism can impact test design and development. ASAP believes in accessible, justice-oriented, anti-racist, and culturally sustaining assessment practices. In alignment with these beliefs, ASAP has a new antiracist equity statement as an alterative design, development, and validation approach to assessment. The equity statement promotes practices that involve engaging…
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CREATE-ing Connections: Stakeholder Leaders and Workgroups
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Stakeholder leaders joined the 2nd Network-wide meeting to connect with research teams and weigh in on workgroup agendas.
In spring, the CREATE Adult Skills Network Leads convened the second Network meeting. The meeting marked three milestones for the Network including bringing in a sixth research team, establishing workgroups, and introducing research teams to the Stakeholder Leaders. At every turn, this gathering was brimming with new connections and, with them, insights and inspiring ideas for partnership that will broaden the impact of the Network.…
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Civics/History Curriculum: An Introduction to the CILIA-T Curriculum Project
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CILIA-T stands for Content-Integrated Language Instruction for Adults with Technology Support. Funded by the Institute for Education Sciences, this five-year project will build and pilot a standards-aligned, 16-module curriculum designed for intermediate-level adult English learners to broaden their academic vocabulary, morphological skills, and critical thinking application while engaging U.S. history and civics content through a thematic lens. Read More
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New Network Brief on Digital Skills Frameworks and Assessment
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The CREATE Adult Skills Network (the Network) research teams are developing technology-supported learning and assessment tools and implementing curricula to help adult learners build digital skills. Throughout this work, each team has noted the importance of gaining a better understanding of the digital skills learners need to fully participate in the research projects. To that end, this Network Brief will introduce several widely used and relevant digital literacy frameworks and assessment strategies used in adult education.
The resources we discuss in this…
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Welcome to the CREATE Adult Skills Network!
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The CREATE Adult Skills Network (the Network) is a resource for all who work to improve adult foundational skills. Network stakeholders include adults who are enhancing their skills and people involved in adult education practice, policy, and research. Our goal is to serve our diverse stakeholders by building knowledge about using technology to support instruction and learning, and then translating research and sharing what we learn.
The need to improve adult skills and educational outcomes is clear. Millions of adults in the U.S. struggle to…