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Direct linkChoitz, Vickie; Good, Larry; Freeman, Mary – COABE Journal: The Resource for Adult Education, 2021
This article describes how public, nonprofit, and private partners in Detroit are working to improve and expand adult foundational skills development opportunities and connect them to workforce training as the city begins to make an economic comeback. It outlines the adult foundational skills challenge in Detroit, chronicles the work of a strategy…
Descriptors: Job Training, Adult Basic Education, Economic Development, Evidence Based Practice
Download full textKlein-Collins, Rebecca – Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (NJ1), 2006
The skills of the workforce are an important contributor to the economic vitality of any region, leading economic developers to consider how to connect their efforts to workforce development and help to build the skills of adults generally. This report, produced for the U.S. Department of Labor's Workforce Innovation in Regional Economic…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Labor Market, Experiential Learning, Adult Learning
McCart, Linda – 1990
Transforming the welfare system presents governors with unique opportunities, hard choices, and creative challenges. Change will require continued commitment to welfare, educational reform, and economic development. Governors can improve the status of private citizens and private businesses. The Family Support Act of 1988 signaled major changes in…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Programs, Early Parenthood
Rivera, William M., Comp.; Walker, Sharon M., Comp. – 1985
The 48 papers in this proceedings focus on aspects of non-formal adult education including international comparative adult education. The papers are: "Lifelong Learning in Perspective" (Knox); "Women in their Thirties: The In-Between Generation" (Caffarella, Freeman); "Development in Women: An Analysis of the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Aging (Individuals)
Comings, John; Sum, Andrew; Uvin, Johan – 2000
The role of adult education in sustaining economic growth and expanding opportunity in Massachusetts was explored. The analysis focused on the new basic skills needed for a new economy, groups lacking the new basic skills, the demand for adult basic education (ABE), funding for ABE, building basic skills through adult education, ABE's costs and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy
Maryland State Dept. of Education, Baltimore. – 2001
A task force studied adult education services in Maryland. The task force heard presentations from a wide range of stakeholders, including adult learners, professional associations, administrators, practitioners, and educational researchers. The presentations confirmed that the need for adult education services in Maryland is extensive and the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Accountability, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education
