This article presents a quasi-experimental study evaluating Morocco's Agency for Adult Education "Literacy for Empowerment" program, using propensity score matching to compare data from participants and nonparticipants. Framed within a theory supporting an all-inclusive concept of literacy, the study was guided by two main questions, and…

The needs of our students have drastically changed over the years and school districts are increasingly finding themselves in need of new programs and curricula to address the social, emotional, and behavioral needs of their students. Student achievement and readiness is impacted due to a lack of basic skills needed in the classroom. This paper…

Many factors cause student disengagement from school that subsequently result in high dropout rates. Alternative education (AE) programs provide a different pathway for at-risk youths who do not meet the goals, standards, and requirements of traditional educational settings. However, educational agencies have vastly different interpretations…

A developmental history of the Georgia Life Skills for Mental Health program is presented. The program's purpose is to help students aged 5-18 learn ways to handle stress, make major life decisions, and form more satisfying interpersonal relationships. In addition to a narrative description of how the program was conceived and developed, the…

This paper describes the activities of 50 rural special education teachers in providing life survival skills education to secondary learning disabled and behaviorally disturbed students as part of a special education inservice program at a land grant university. The program offered a yearlong, 9 credit hour, sequence of courses, which included…

A middle school program in Phoenix, New York, was planned to provide for trainable and low functioning educable mentally retarded students in an integrated setting. Cooperation between the planning team and the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation resulted in a program for 13 students aged 11 to 14 with four major areas of concentration: social…

This guide is intended for continuing education tutors in England who are concerned with the design and implementation of curricula intended to promote the development of social and life skills (SLS) in 16-19 year olds as part of a Unified Vocational Preparation scheme. After a brief description of the background and the current usage of the term…

According to a 1981 study, the Life Skills Program that was developed by Saskatchewan New Start over a decade ago is still very much needed to improve the life situation of economically disadvantaged adults. At present, the overall rationale for the Life Skills Program is contained in collections of articles written at successive stages of program…

This handbook provides adult basic education teachers with instructional materials for working with adult mentally handicapped students. Section 1 examines planning programs for adult mentally retarded students (getting started, specific considerations, various kinds of program sites) and implementing instruction (staff selection and training).…

This document brings together the first three issues of a newsletter designed for users of the Council for Exceptional Children's Life Centered Career Education (LCCE) curriculum. The newsletter's goal is to inform practitioners of curriculum implementation ideas and transition issues, and to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas. Featured…

This staff user guide accompanies the Career Survival Kit prepared for teenage parents in Wisconsin. The guide addresses effective program components and methods for serving teen parents and guidelines for using the curriculum. Topics include facts on teenage pregnancy and parenthood; characteristics of teen parents; information on dropout…

This program guide identifies primary considerations in the organization, operation, and evaluation of a life management skills program. Program content is presented first. A curriculum framework specifies the exact course title, course number, levels of instruction, major course content, laboratory activities, special notes, major course…

Three California State Department units (vocational education, pupil personnel services, and career education) and two school districts (Fremont Unified and Huntington Beach Union High) established a consortium to develop demonstration sites for model career development and vocational preparation systems and staff development programs. The…

This report examines various approaches to social education that are currently in use in Great Britain. Discussed in an overview of social education are the following topics: social education in secondary schools, social education and the Youth Service, social education for adults, training in personal interaction, the social education of mentally…

A project helped handicapped high school students to develop and implement realistic vocational plans and to develop functional skills in various areas associated with independent living. Designed as an evening course open to full time special needs vocational high school students, the program consisted of the following two components: (l) a…