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An Experimental Study Designed to Test the Relative Effectiveness of a Multi-Media Instructional System.
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Scheier, Elaine – 1969
A study compared the effectiveness of Learning 100 (L-100), a multimedia, multimodal, multilevel communication skills system, with that of a more conventional reading program with functional illiterates in Bedford-Stuyvesant, a ghetto area in Brooklyn, New York. In January, 1968, under the Title III Adult Education Act of 1966, Adult Basic…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Dropouts, Conventional Instruction, Disadvantaged
Adult Basic Education--Meeting the Challenge of the 1970's. First Annual Report of the National Advisory Committee on Adult Basic Education to the President of the United States and Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare.
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Office of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC. – 1968
Recommendations and supporting information for the Federal Adult Basic Education (ABE) Program through the fiscal year 1972 include increasing appropriations and enrollment each year from 1970-72 to focus on civic participation, jobs, home, and family life; study to develop a 10-year national plan to coordinate all Federal ABE programs;…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Disadvantaged, Educational Innovation, Expenditures
An Analysis of Adult Basic Education In Missouri.
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
Adult Illiterates and Adult Literacy Programs: A Summary of Descriptive Data.
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McGrail, Janet – 1984
A portrait of illiterates and literacy programs in the United States in the 1980s is derived from this summary of the most up-to-date, valid information that could be obtained from a literature review. The first section on adult illiterates identifies data sources, numbers of illiterates, and characteristics of the five main groups (the elderly,…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Community Programs, Correctional Education
The POWER of Adult Education: Moving the Adult Education and Literacy System of the United States from the Margins to the Mainstream of Education.
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Sticht, Thomas G. – 2001
The Adult Education and Literacy System (AELS) has been systematizing and promoting adult education in the United States since 1966, when the Adult Education Act (AEA) was passed. Today, some 4,000 organizations operate under the rules and regulations of the latest reauthorization of the AEA, the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act (AEFLA).…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Disadvantaged, Educational Benefits
Adult Education. Annual Report, National Advisory Council on Adult Education.
National Advisory Council on Adult Education, Washington, DC. – 1972
Recommendations of the President's National Advisory Council on Adult Education are the subject of this first annual report. The activities of the Council during its first year are listed. Recommendations for Action are: (1) a higher budget priority for adult education in Fiscal Year 1973, and the development of a Comprehensive Adult Education…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Age