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Seamon, Joan; Newcomb, Sarah – Vocational Education Journal, 1990
The National Workplace Literacy Program provides grants to partnerships of business, labor, and educational organizations to develop model programs for teaching job-related basic skills. These projects are yielding information about promising practices, effective program elements, and barriers to implementation. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Demonstration Programs, Federal Programs
Download full textSaumweber, Judy; And Others – 1991
A JTPA/FEL (Job Training Partnership Act/Family English Literacy) demonstration project is reported that involves a partnership between the Lao Family Community (LFC) of Minnesota, the City of St. Paul, and St. Paul Public Schools/Adult Basic Education. The goal is to provide workplace literacy instruction to refugees with limited English…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Curriculum Development, Demonstration Programs
Proper, Len – 1994
This report summarizes the 18 programs that have received Governor's Workforce Excellence Awards in Ohio over the past 3 years. The 18 award winning programs (based in companies employing from 75 to 16,000 employees) focus on the basic literacy, thinking, and personal skills that every Ohio worker must possess. They were selected from nearly 100…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Awards
Office of Vocational and Adult Education (ED), Washington, DC. National Workplace Literacy Program. – 1992
The National Workplace Literacy Program forges dynamic partnerships among businesses, workers, and educators facilitating the transition from yesterday's work environment to tomorrow's. The program's success is indicated by high retention rates, organizational acceptance, and intense grants competition. Valid and reliable measures are needed that…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Change Strategies, Demonstration Programs
Enterprise State Junior Coll., AL. – 1992
In April 1991, Enterprise State Junior College and MacArthur State Technical College established a rural workplace literacy demonstration project in partnership with adult basic education, seven employers, and a labor organization. The project served 615 persons in classes offered at the 2 colleges, 4 partner locations, and 3 additional worksites.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Ancillary School Services, Basic Skills
Models of Excellence: A Review of Ohio's Award-Winning Workplace Literacy Programs. 1996 Supplement.
Baechlin, Dan; Proper, Len – 1996
This document profiles Ohio's seven award-winning workplace literacy programs. The workplace literacy programs described are offered by a mix of urban and rural firms which employ between 85 and 2,323 individuals in a variety of sectors. The workplace literacy programs offered by the following firms are described: Cleveland Track Material; L.J.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Cooperative Planning, Demonstration Programs
Bethlehem Area Chamber of Commerce, PA. – 1990
The Bethlehem Area Chamber of Commerce, using a grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Education, developed a model program to demonstrate the effectiveness of a business-based network to improve the literacy level of the local work force. The project involved increasing business member awareness of literacy needs, creating linkages among…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Demonstration Programs, Education Work Relationship
Fisk, William R.; Peck, Nancy L. – 1992
Workers in five departments of the J.P. Stevens Plant in Clemson, South Carolina, participated in a workplace literacy project that was designed to increase participants' literacy and job skills and increase the literacy training efforts of textile plants in the Southeast. Major project activities included the following: identification of the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Reading Programs, Curriculum Development, Demonstration Programs
Askov, Eunice N.; Brown, Emory J. – 1990
A Pennsylvania project to improve the reading skills of commercial drivers and to help them pass the required federal Commercial Driver's License (CDL) written examination was evaluated at five pilot sites. The project used ROAD (Real Opportunities for Advancement and Development) to Success, a basic skills course of interactive computer…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Certification, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction
National Inst. for Literacy, Washington, DC. – 1993
This booklet presents summaries of the 35 projects funded by the National Institute for Literacy in 1992. Each summary provides the project's purpose, findings, products, and contact person with address and telephone number. These projects are included: Adult Literacy in the United States; Cognitive Skills-Based Instruction and Assessment; Hmong…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Demonstration Programs, English (Second Language)
Manitoba Dept. of Education and Training, Winnipeg. Literacy and Continuing Education Branch. – 1995
This document profiles seven exemplary literacy programs in Manitoba, Canada: the Open Doors program in Winnipeg (a community-based program conducted in a school setting); the Brandon Friendship Centre literacy program (a community-based program conducted in a friendship center in rural Manitoba); the Flin Flon Friendship Centre literacy program…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Agriculture, Community Centers, Community Education
Wallace State Coll., Hanceville, AL. – 1993
Project TIP (Tyson Improvement Program) was undertaken in 1992 to provide basic and job-specific skills training to current employees of Tyson Foods. The workplace literacy program, which was jointly developed by staff from Wallace State College in Hanceville, Alabama, and Tyson Foods, was designed to be presented to Tyson employees at five…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Corporate Education, Demonstration Programs
Westberry, Susan – 1990
The Basic Educational Skills Training (BEST) workplace literacy demonstration model was designed to provide adult basic education (ABE) services simultaneously for multiple employers in Maury County, Tennessee. The BEST model focused on job-related instruction. The goal of the program was to achieve increased safety, productivity, and employee…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Community Programs
Poulton, Bruce R. – 1994
As described in this performance report, the Workplace Literacy System (WLS) project was a national demonstration program in which North Carolina State University, Forsyth Technical Community College, and Sara Lee Knit Products Company (SLKP) participated as partners. During the project's second phase, a nine-module curriculum on the history of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Community Colleges, Computer Assisted Instruction, Content Area Reading
Kissack, Tessie Saenz, Comp.; Clymer-Spradling, Carol, Ed. – 1990
A model workplace literacy program is described that was designed to upgrade the basic skills of adult workers and developed by El Paso Community College in partnership with J&J Register Company, a Texas division of Philips Industries with approximately 300 workers. Pre-assessment results indicated that about 95 percent of the workers had…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Competency Based Education, Curriculum Development, Demonstration Programs
