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Download full textOliver, Leonard P. – 1969
Workshops were conducted in 1965 at the Universities of New Mexico, Maryland, and Washington for 150 educators responsible for preparing trainers of adult basic education teachers. Immediate program evaluation and followup evaluation were done; the University of Maryland followup surveyed not only workshop participants, but also trainers and…
Descriptors: Administrators, Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Budgets
Gacka, Richard – 1997
The Adult Education Alternative Diploma project was conducted to develop an alternative program to the General Educational Development (GED) diploma program through which adult students in Pennsylvania could earn actual high school diplomas. During the year-long project, a competency diploma program was developed and implemented in conjunction…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Competence, Competency Based Education
Edelson, Paul J. – 1991
The Saturation Project was an innovative 3-year grant program that was planned by the National Association for Public School Adult Educators (NAPSAE) but never actually implemented. The grant was intended to be given to the McAlester, Oklahoma, school district in 1961 in order to demonstrate the contribution of adult education to the overall…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Programs, Educational Administration, Organizational Development
Morrison, Marshall Lee
Volume 2 of the handbook has been designed to supplement the material presented in Volume 1, which was concerned with basic problems associated with the Adult Basic Education (ABE) classroom. Volume 2 aims at a wider audience. Chapter 1 attempts to give a detailed description of the deprived adult learner, and considers such questions as how they…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students
Leto, Lyn – 1997
In 1996, individuals associated with the Lifelong Learning Center in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, proposed the formation of a three-district literacy consortium in a tricounty rural area that would cooperatively offer adults residing in the districts the option of earning a standard high school diploma in lieu of a General Educational…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Basic Skills
Gruber, Samuel C. – 1997
This document contains information from and about Project AchievE (sic), a program that was developed in Pennsylvania's Cumberland Valley School District to enable adults with or without a General Educational Development certificate to earn a regular high school diploma by mastering competencies in the following categories: government and law;…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Basic Skills
