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New York State Education Dept., Albany. Div. of Adult and Continuing Education Programs. – 1987
This report provides an overview of the efforts and results of adult basic education centers and classroom teachers and volunteers who provide instruction in the most basic and essential skills for the educationally disadvantaged adults in New York. Charts and graphs illustrate the data that are presented in this photograph-enhanced compilation of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Adult Students
Grebelsky, Ora – 1971
This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of a study about the world's illiteracy. The writer recalls that the gap between underdeveloped and industrial nations is particularly wide in the field of education. About two fifths of the world's adult population, nearly 800 million people are unable to read or write. The…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy
