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Download full textEmployment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1990
Provisions and purposes of four federal human resource development programs were reviewed, and options regarding the definition of basic skills and literacy were analyzed. The four programs were as follows: Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) program, Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA), Adult Education Act (AEA), and the Carl D. Perkins…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Competence, Educational Research, Federal Legislation
Wills, Joan L. – 1995
In large measure, the United States is a country coming from far behind regarding even serious conversations about a national education system. Three pieces of federal legislation passed in 1994 are intertwined in purpose and actions. These include: the School-to-Work Opportunities Act; the Goals 2000: Educate America Act; and within the Goals…
Descriptors: Competence, Corporate Support, Education Work Relationship, Educational Change
Council for Advancement of Adult Literacy (NJ1), 2006
This publication reviews and summarizes the findings of the major benchmark studies and reports in adult literacy--beginning with the University of Texas' Adult Performance Level Study of 1977 and continuing through the 2006 NAAL survey results, A First Look at the Literacy of America's Adults in the 21st Century.
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Educational Research, Benchmarking, Competence
Banovetz, James M., Ed. – 2000
According to the most recent National Adult Literacy Survey, nearly half of Illinois adults lack sufficient reading proficiency to ensure job success and advancement in 21st century workplaces. The Test of Adult Basic Education is currently used as a pretest/posttest in Illinois' existing adult basic education, adult secondary education, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Change Strategies
