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Brown, Jane; Coughlin, Merle – 1993
The Attleboro (Massachusetts) Workplace Education Program, a partnership of four area companies and Bristol Community College, is intended to provide workers with education that will improve the quality of their lives and their work. Housed in a corporate office building in the Attleboro Industrial Park, the program offers classes in English as a…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Labor Force Development, Literacy Education
Eddy, David, Ed.; Garb, Gill, Ed. – World Education Reports, 1989
This issue, the second in a three-part series leading up to International Literacy Year in 1990, examines innovative mass efforts that reach out to the large numbers of people who have been bypassed by traditional approaches. The eight articles are the following: (1) "Towards an Agenda for Literacy" (H. S. Bhola) reports on developing an…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Developed Nations, Developing Nations
Centrella, Nancy; And Others – 1988
The need for and development of a program in English as a Second Language (ESL) and functional English literacy for nursing home workers are outlined, and suggestions are offered for others desiring to start such a program. Anecdotal information and a needs assessment, in combination with Massachusetts state standards for nursing home workers, led…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Course Content, Health Personnel, Labor Education
Nash, Andy; Uvin, Johan – 1993
A minicourse pilot project was designed by the Massachusetts Department of Education to meet the staff training and development needs of workplace educators in the National Workplace Literacy Program. During the course, various activities and group configurations were used to help teachers apply modeled approaches to their own teaching contexts,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy, Educational Needs
Reuys, Steve – 1997
Conversations with seven Boston-area adult basic education (ABE) program coordinators revealed the severe adverse effects of Massachusetts' new restrictive welfare reform law on literacy education programs for the poor. The new law limits cash assistance to 2 years for most welfare recipients and requires most recipients whose youngest child is…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Compliance (Legal)
Quezada, Shelley; Nickse, Ruth S. – 1992
This handbook records the joint planning process for development of a family literacy program suited to each of six Massachusetts communities. Part 1 discusses the national background to collaborative projects, national educational goals and concept of family and intergenerational literacy programs, justification for family literacy, libraries'…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Agency Cooperation, Community Coordination, Cooperative Programs
Continuing Education Inst., Needham, MA. – 1990
The Continuing Education Institute (CEI) established a seven-member training collaborative to upgrade the literacy and English language skills of nursing assistants, dietary aides, and housekeeping workers employed in a chronic and acute care hospital and in five Massachusetts nursing homes. Three adult basic education (ABE) classes, five…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Allied Health Occupations, Allied Health Personnel, English (Second Language)