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"Teachers of English Language Learners (ELLs), program administrators, professional development specialists, policy makers, researchers, and other members of the adult ELL educator community, will find new tools and resources here to advance instructional quality and to better serve ELLs. "

"The College and Career Readiness Standards (CCR) for Adult Education report presents a set of college and career readiness standards that reflect the content most relevant to preparing adult students for success in colleges, technical training programs, work and citizenship-in the areas of English language arts/literacy and mathematics."

"Problem/need addressed: The Learner Web Partnership addresses the primary barriers to broadband access and use among adults in the United States: affordability, lack of digital literacy skills, and a perceived lack of content relevant to their daily lives, needs, and future aspirations. These barriers are exacerbated among populations that have the lowest levels of broadband access: primarily low-income adults who lack a high school education. This includes a growing-and increasingly diverse-population of adults from immigrant and language-minority communities."

You can use this tool to see the vocabulary frequency of any text. So if you are trying to simplify a text for a remedial reader you can see which vocabulary words need to be simplified first, or scaffolded

Not user friendly, but if you dig its useful.