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Download full textBorden, Karl J. – 1973
There are more than 60 million U. S. adults who lack a high school diploma. Their employability is decreasing, due to the upswing in white collar occupations. Also, they are often barred from the skilled and unskilled labor market; on-the-job training is increasingly academic; General Educational Development (GED) examinations are rigorous and the…
Descriptors: Adult Dropouts, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Adult Students
Hayes, Elisabeth – Office of Educational Research and Improvement, 1999
The growing number of youth enrolling in adult literacy education is a little-documented trend across the nation that is having a major impact on programs in some areas but appears to be unnoticed by educational policymakers and researchers. A central question is whether youth enrollments provide an opportunity for adult literacy education to…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Dropouts, Adult Education, Adult Literacy
