Volume 3, Issue B ::: June 1999
BLACKBOARD
Workforce Investment Act
For a copy of the act, contact the House
Document Room at (202) 226-5200.
The Workforce Investment Act is Public Law 105-220. For an overview of the act,
go to http://usworkforce.org/
For federal legislation and summaries of the act,
go to
http://novel.nifl.gov
Assessment Systems
Comprehensive Adult Skills Assessment System
(CASAS),
8910 Clairemont Mesa Boulevard
San Diego, CA 92123-1104
phone: 1-800-255-1036,
fax: 619-292-2910
website:
http://www.casas.org/
National Reporting System
For information on the National Reporting
System,
contact Larry Condelli of Pelavin Research Associates at
(202) 944-5311 or visit the web site at http://www.air-dc.org/nrs.
Accountability
An interesting discussion on
accountability started on the
National Literacy Advocacy electronic discussion list in May.
To read the archived messages, go to http://literacy.nifl.gov/forums.html .
The archives are grouped by year and can be sorted by name,
date, topic, and thread. You can specify the NLA list, and
sort by thread: accountability.
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Choose "Literacy Forums and Listservs" and follow the instructions.
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And
finally, a poem
about Accountability Truth and Perfection I can see it off in the distance,
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