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Dorimé-Williams, Marjorie; Plancarte, Vivianna – MDRC, 2022
In 2019, MDRC launched the Scaling Up College Completion Efforts for Student Success (SUCCESS) project to improve college completion rates for traditionally underserved students, such as students from low-income backgrounds and students of color, at community and broad-access colleges (those that have open or minimally selective admissions…
Descriptors: Adults, Adult Learning, College Students, Community College Students
Rebecca Klein-Collins; Christina Sedney; Patrick Lane – Council for Adult and Experiential Learning, 2024
The CAEL (Council for Adult and Experiential Learning) and the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE) announce the inaugural winners of the Credit for Prior Learning (CPL) Equity Awards, recognizing strategies that have been proven to put CPL in reach of key adult learner populations and/or increase their CPL credit-earning.…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Adult Learning, Experiential Learning, Alaska Natives
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Routh, Brianna; Langworthy, Sara; Jastram, Hannah – Journal of Extension, 2014
As more parents are using the Internet to answer their questions, Extension needs to provide practical, research-based resources in an accessible format. Pinterest is a platform that can be used by Extension educators to provide continued education and make reputable resources more discoverable for parents. Based on Knowles adult learning theory…
Descriptors: Parent Education, Extension Education, Internet, Web Sites
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Palmberg, Greta; Rask, Kendra – Odyssey: New Directions in Deaf Education, 2014
Vocational Education, Community Training, and Occupational Relations Program (VECTOR) serves a variety of students with disabilities, about one-third of whom are deaf, hard of hearing, or deaf/blind. As part of what the federal government calls a "traditionally underserved population," these students come from the homes of immigrants and…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Intervention, Reading Achievement, Disadvantaged
LDA of Minnesota, 2004
Currently, it is required that 2% of total Adult Basic Education (ABE) funding in Minnesota be set aside to provide statewide supplemental services such as staff development, technological development, support for disabled learners, support for communities of color, distance learning, and other innovative projects. Non-profit organizations or…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Adult Basic Education, Grants, Learning Disabilities
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Erickson, Cindy; Bengtson, Wayne – Journal of Staff Development, 1984
A partnership between Honeywell and a Minnesota school district benefited both organizations through shared resources and provision of staff development programs. Details on how this collaborative project was designed and implemented are discussed. (DF)
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Cooperative Programs, Futures (of Society), Organizational Objectives
Turner, Terilyn C.; Frick, Elizabeth – 1990
This monograph presents the state of the art of computer-assisted instruction for students in adult basic education (ABE), developmental education, and rehabilitation programs. The 12 articles are written by practitioners for practitioners and describe programs being provided by public schools, community colleges, libraries, volunteer agencies,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, College Students
2000
This document contains three papers from a symposium on workplace issues that was conducted as part of a conference on human resource development (HRD). "Maximizing Opportunities for the Aging Workforce through Workplace Design" (Virginia W. Kupritz), reports on the second phase of study of the office design features needed to provide…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Adult Learning, Age Differences, Aging (Individuals)