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Download full textCalifornia Postsecondary Education Commission, 2008
This report examines the various adult basic skills programs in operation in California, and explores program funding and structure, enrollment and demographics, and to the extent data allow, program outcomes. This measure is presented as part of the Commission's Performance Accountability Framework for California postsecondary education. Among…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Programs, Adult Basic Education, High School Equivalency Programs
Phoenix Union High School District, AZ. – 1972
A community school funded by ESEA Title III and the Mott Foundation from 1970 through August 1973 is described in the booklet. Serving as the vehicle to bring about greater community involvement and participation, the school provides a program of education for people of all ages by utilizing the facilities and programs of the public school and the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Community Schools, Program Descriptions, Program Evaluation
Shelby County Schools, Memphis, TN. – 1966
Instruction at three levels is outlined in this public school adult basic education curriculum guide. Development of reading, writing, oral communication, and arithmetic is stressed at Level I (grades 1-3). Mathematics, reading (with attention to phonics and word structure), and English are enlarged upon in Level II (grades 4-6). Level III (grades…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Counseling, Curriculum Guides, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedLane, Richard W. – NASSP Bulletin, 1983
Recommendations for increasing participation of functionally illiterate adults in community education programs include decentralization of educational sites, availability of transportation and child care, and instruction stressing functional literacy and teaching reading and computation as tools for solving students' personal and social problems.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Students, Community Involvement, Educationally Disadvantaged
White Plains Public Schools, NY. – 1970
Intended primarily for new staff members, this manual includes most procedures, rules, benefits applicable to the entire White Plains, New York, school system or unique to the Adult Education Center. It covers such matters as enrollment trends within the overall adult basic education (ABE) program, the ABE program organization chart, personnel…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Adult Basic Education, Classroom Techniques, Clerical Workers
Colorado State Dept. of Education, Denver. – 1968
A report is presented of the total number of classes, class hours, and students in adult education programs conducted by Colorado public schools during the 1967-68 fiscal year. Adult basic education, high school completion, arts and crafts, commercial and business education, homemaking and family life education, hobbies, trade and industrial…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Classes (Groups of Students), Curriculum, Enrollment
Anderson, Ethel; Woeller, Elizabeth – Literacy Discussion, 1974
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Community Schools
Literacy Work, 1974
The merging of the concept of education into a worldwide pattern of lifelong learning is reviewed and implications explored in the areas of needs, costs, organizational aspects, directions for research, and elements for strategies. Summarized reports are presented of the experiences of Peru, Cuba, and Algeria with continuing education programs.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Development, Educational Innovation, Foreign Countries
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. – 1967
THE PLAN INCLUDES SPECIFIC GUIDELINES FOR PROGRAM PROPOSALS TO QUALIFY CALIFORNIA FOR TITLE II FUNDS AND SERVE AS A POLICY GUIDE FOR STATE AND LOCAL PROGRAMS. IT PROVIDES FOR SECONDARY SCHOOL DISTRICTS TO PROVIDE INSTRUCTION IN CIVIC, VOCATIONAL, LITERACY, HEALTH, HOMEMAKING, TECHNICAL, AND GENERAL EDUCATION FOR ADULTS. SHORT TERM OBJECTIVES…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Adult Basic Education, Agency Cooperation, Expenditures
Utah State Board of Education, Salt Lake City. – 1970
Major purposes for the preparation of this report on public school adult education in Utah were: to provide the public with a description of achievements, trends, and needs, and with meaningful cost accounting information; to make comparisons and analyses of adult education by program, school district, and year; and to provide the adult education…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Annual Reports, Civil Defense
Peer reviewedCohen, Milton – Clearing House, 1979
The School for All Ages (SFAA) integrates local adults, with academic levels from nonreaders through high school, into a regular K-12 program. The coordinator's role in attracting, orienting, and supporting adult students is outlined, as are the advantages and disadvantages of joint classes for adults and children. (SJL)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Students, Community Schools, Coordinators
Skavery, Stanley – 1980
The development of adult education in the Detroit area during the years 1875-1932 was intimately tied to the social, political, and economic events of that time span. Data gleaned from census records, Board of Education minutes, old maps, street guides, labor legislation, educational legislation, church records, advertisements, alien…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Cultural Influences
Kirk, William Donald – 1968
A study was made of the expenditure of Federal funds in Missouri schools under the Adult Education Act of 1966, involvement by state public education agencies in adult basic education programs according to such selected factors as school size, assessed valuation, classification, and geographical location; and major characteristics of the adult…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Dropouts, Doctoral Dissertations, Enrollment
Oliver, 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
Hawkins, Dorothy Lee – 1968
This investigation sought to discover why adults dropped out of the adult basic education program and the General Education Development program in the New Orleans public schools, and to suggest ways of reducing the number of dropouts. A specially constructed interview schedule was used to obtain data from a 10% random sample of 1965-67 dropouts…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Dropouts, Age Differences, Attendance
