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Revving Up Economic Mobility in the Motor City: How Detroit Has Accelerated, Contextualized, and Integrated Adult Education and Workforce Training
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Choitz, Vickie; Good, Larry; Freeman, Mary – COABE Journal: The Resource for Adult Education, 2021
This article describes how public, nonprofit, and private partners in Detroit are working to improve and expand adult foundational skills development opportunities and connect them to workforce training as the city begins to make an economic comeback. It outlines the adult foundational skills challenge in Detroit, chronicles the work of a strategy…
Descriptors: Job Training, Adult Basic Education, Economic Development, Evidence Based Practice
Career Pathways for a Productive and Self-Reliant Workforce: A To-Do List for Adult Educators
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Jurmo, Paul – Adult Basic Education and Literacy Journal, 2011
The adult basic education field in the United States is now being encouraged to shift to a "career pathways" orientation by policy research organizations, federal and state agencies, community college organizations, business groups, and private foundations. In such an approach, adult basic education programs work with workforce…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Economic Development, Adult Basic Education, Unions
Better Skills, Better Jobs, Better Lives: A Strategic Approach to Skills Policies
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OECD Publishing (NJ3), 2012
Recognising both the complexity of skills policies and the potential for peer learning, the OECD has developed a global Skills Strategy that helps countries to identify the strengths and weaknesses of their national skills systems, benchmark them internationally, and develop policies that can transform better skills into better jobs, economic…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Strategic Planning
Testimony of Morton Bahr for the National Commission on Adult Literacy to the House Subcommittee on Education and Labor
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Bahr, Morton – Council for Advancement of Adult Literacy (NJ1), 2009
It is no secret that America is at risk of losing its place as a world leader in education. Some 88 million adults in America need help with their English as a Second Language (ESL) and basic skills, yet the nation is currently providing services to only 3 million people. The Commission on Adult Literacy calls for bold change at the state and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Hearings