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Download full textAcademic Senate for California Community Colleges, 2009
This paper considers noncredit instruction in the California Community College System. It identifies three related concepts: a state need for increased levels of education that noncredit instruction is well placed to supply, several changes that begin to facilitate that response, and additional changes that are needed to ensure success. The…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students
Drennan, Ann – 1980
The first part of this document describes the formation of the Education Steering Committee for Basic Skills Coordination by the Education Department, consisting of representatives from six staff offices and "Head Start." The Committee's goals and accomplishments are summarized, including compilation and distribution of a legislative…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Coordinators
Peer reviewedMelle, Marge; Wilson, Fern – Educational Leadership, 1984
Describes the Jefferson County Primary Integrated Curriculum program. Developed as an interdisciplinary curriculum, the program allows primary students to work holistically. The article includes Learning Units. (MD)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Class Activities, Curriculum Development, Interdisciplinary Approach
Begland, Robert R. – 1981
In reviewing the Army Continuing Education System in 1979, the Assistant Secretary of the Army found a basic skills program based on traditional academic level goals was inadequate to meet the Army's requirement to provide functional, job-related basic skill education. Combining the shrinking manpower pool and projected basic skill deficiencies of…
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Basic Skills, Continuing Education, Functional Literacy
Peer reviewedDeCoster, W.; And Others – Special Services in the Schools, 1986
The article provides a narrative summary of the development of the Ghent (Belgium) public school program for children aged two-and-a-half years to eight years. The program for each age level is described in terms of its purpose, nature, and program evaluation design. Cognitive development and skill learning are distinguished. (DB)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Cognitive Development, Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedSandifer, Paul D. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1981
The supervision/management of a project that identified the educational objectives in the basic skills for South Carolina, and which relied heavily on a contractor's services, is retrospectively viewed. Some potentially generalizable principles of supervision for such development projects are isolated. (Author/AL)
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Basic Skills, Contracts, Educational Objectives
Peer reviewedLong, Russell C. – CEA Critic, 1981
Identifies problems and decisions made surrounding the implementation of a basic writing program. (HOD)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Higher Education, Program Administration, Program Attitudes
Curtis, Krystyna J. – Adult Education (London), 1986
The author describes a scheme to use the adult basic education service to help people whose powers of communication have been damaged by accidents or strokes. Discusses establishing basic skills classes for dysphasic adults and linkage with other groups. (Author/CT)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Basic Skills
Irish, Gladys H. – Adult Literacy and Basic Education, 1980
Describes a project designed to test the effectiveness of the traditional adult basic education curriculum and a competency based curriculum; develop an adult literacy and competency skills instructional program; and produce an exportable handbook which could be used by other agencies in developing such programs. (CT)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Competency Based Education
Hawes, Kathryn S.; Colwell, Clyde G. – 1981
The college of education at a midwestern university has designed a program for training senior citizen volunteers to tutor elementary school students in reading and language arts. Development of the Time Of Our Lives for Service (T. O. O. L. S.) program included establishing goals and objectives for the program that were subject to administrative…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Elementary Education, Language Arts, Older Adults
Webb, Mel – 1983
A comprehensive student basic skills assessment program was developed at St. Louis Community College (SLCC) at Florissant Valley to appraise student readiness to take courses, gather information for counseling and advising, diagnose student problems, and evaluate program efficiency and effectiveness. The steps taken in developing the program were:…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Educational Counseling, Educational Testing
Lowenstein, Ronnie B. – 1989
A one-day meeting of leaders of basic skills organizations was held in order to create a consortium to promote the sharing of ideas and information, assist in the transfer of effective programs and materials, and encourage the joint development of new programs and products to train adults and youth in need. After familiarizing themselves with the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Basic Education, Agency Cooperation, Basic Skills
Haiman, Peter E.; And Others – 1980
This description of the Erie Basic Educational Skills (BES) Program provides examples of the achievements made by the Erie Public Schools and Head Start toward BES and Responsive Educational Program goals. Staff positions, staff responsibilities, the curriculum, and programs initiated and carried out in the Erie Public Schools are described. The…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Curriculum Development, Educational Innovation, Elementary Education
Renyi, Judith – Phi Delta Kappan, 1994
A recent Rockefeller Foundation report concluded that a lively life in the humanities depended on vigorous engagement with reading, writing, and cultures. Collaboratives for Humanities and Arts Teaching (CHART), created to foster humanistic education, targets classrooms of average students from impoverished urban and rural districts. Such…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art Education, Basic Skills, Educational Change
Direct linkLee, Margaret B.; And Others – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1992
Describes Oakton Community College's Critical Literacy Project (CLP), which includes a faculty seminar on critical thinking and analytical reading/writing, all-college staff development programming, and a national conference. Considers faculty ownership, college support, an interdisciplinary focus, and intellectual rigor among the keys to CLP…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Critical Thinking, Faculty Development
