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Training Peer Tutors with Conferencing Software: Practicing Collaboration and Planning for Difficult Tutorials.

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Essid, Joseph J. – Research and Teaching in Developmental Education, 1996

Discusses the use of synchronous conferences via electronic mail in training new writing tutors, highlighting the benefits of such an approach. Describes two synchronous conferences held at the University of Richmond related to dealing with resistant writers and tutoring across disciplines. Provides recommendations for implementing synchronous…

Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Electronic Mail, Higher Education

The Logical Place to Attain Literacy.

Malus, Susan – Library Journal, 1987

Describes the design, development, and implementation of an adult literacy program incorporating adult learning centers within the Brooklyn Public Library system. (CLB)

Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Financial Support

The Political Arithmetic of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis.

Levin, Henry M.; And Others – Phi Delta Kappan, 1986

Responding to a critique of their earlier article, authors Levin and Meister, joined by Glass, attempt to clarify some of the issues and to correct implicit misunderstandings in the critique, while detailing the application of cost-effectiveness to educational interventions. Twenty footnotes are appended. (IW)

Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education

Eliminating Illiteracy. Hearings on Examining Proposed Legislation To Coordinate and Strengthen Efforts at the Federal, State, and Local and Private and Non-Profit Sector Levels To Challenge and Elimate Illiteracy in the United States, before the Subcommittee on Education, Arts and Humanities of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred First Congress, First Session (May 4, 18, and July 10, 1989).

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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1989

This document reports oral and written testimony of witnesses at three Congressional hearings on eliminating illiteracy held in spring and summer, 1989. Witnesses included Senators Paul Simon, Howard Metzenbaum, Nancy Kassebaum, Strom Thurmond, Thad Cochran, and Orrin Hatch; Secretary of Education Lauro F. Cavazos; literacy program managers and…

Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Educational Finance