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Election 2004 Toolkit
The National Council of Nonprofit Associations
(NCNA) has developed a toolkit on election
activities for 501(c)(3) organizations.
It describes the types of election-related activities in which nonprofit
charities
can engage. In addition to describing
the do's and don'ts, it provides samples and other materials
to help charities
engage in permissible activities during this election cycle.
George Lucas Educational Foundation
Website has free teaching
modules in several areas including
assessment and project-based learning.
LINCS Research Page
Site includes research resources that support
evidence-based education, three guides for
understanding and using research,
and four places to look for new research in adult education and literacy.
The LINCS Research Page is maintained
and hosted by Southern LINCS
(Literacy Information and Communication
System).
Literacy USA
Formerly known as the National Alliance of Urban Literacy
Coalitions, Literacy USA is a network of 65 literacy coalitions in
major metropolitan areas across the country, representing over 4,400
literacy service providers and over 2,700,000 learners. By acting as
a kind of trade association for local coalitions, Literacy USA creates
a forum for a peer-learning group of coalition leaders across the U.S.;
serves as a national voice for local coalitions; interests business
leaders in funding the cause; disseminates resources and information
to the grassroots and gathers information from the frontlines; and
provides technical assistance to emerging coalitions and those in transition
or crisis. Membership is open to literacy organizations that operate
as 501(c)(3), not-for-profit organizations, represent multiple and
diverse adult and/or family literacy
service providers, and serve an advocacy
role.
Pumarosa.com
Free website for
Spanish speakers learning English
provides lessons on English words and phrases as well as grammar exercises.
Lessons are at beginning and intermediate levels. Beginning level lessons
include audio demonstrating pronunciation in both English and Spanish.
Site also can be used by students whose native language is other than
Spanish.
Reading By 9
Sponsored by the Los Angeles Times and others, this
site has parent reading guides and information in English, Spanish,
Chinese, and Vietnamese.
Rubrician.com
Site has links to many rubrics that teachers, parents,
students, and evaluators will find useful.
Skillswise
Website offers resources for both adult learners and tutors
to help adults improve their reading, writing and maths skills. It
is targeted at Level 1 of the adult Basic Skills Literacy & Numeracy
Curriculums for England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Factsheets, worksheets,
quizzes and games to help adults improve their English skills (grammar,
spelling, reading, listening, writing, and vocabulary) and math skills
(whole numbers; measures, shape and space; fractions, decimals and
percentages; and handling data). Skillswise is being developed and
created by BBC Interactive Factual and Learning.
TestPrepReview.com
This free service of a group of educators was
created to provide free practice test questions for students in a variety
of career situations (including preparation for the GED). The site
contains a modular approach to learning the content on the GED.
Click on GED
Practice on the lefthand side menu.
Community Collaboration
as a Success Story
Eager to Learn is a grassroots literacy collaboration of about thirty
nonprofit organizations in Austin, Texas. The goal of the group is
to raise the literacy skills in seventy children who have been identified
as needing help. Most of the children are pre-kindergarten and kindergarten
age, and live near I-35 and Highway 183. This area is home for about
one-fourth of all Austin children under the age of five years. Parents
and childcare providers are involved as well in the program. A survey
of the parents indicated that the parents had been unaware of the fact
that learning begins before a child enters school. The parents in Eager
to Learn are finding out that they are their child's first teacher,
and how important interacting with, talking to, and reading to their
child right from the start can be on the child's brain development
and future literacy skills. The ASPIRE Even Start Program of Communities
in Schools is part of the Eager to Learn collaboration.
(Reported by News 8 Austin, Erin Ochoa, June 21, 2004 with input from Kirsten Siegfried, Even Start)
