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Wolfe, Rebecca E. – Jobs for the Future, 2012
For over 17 years, Boston Day and Evening Academy has served a population of young people often left behind: those who are off track to high school graduation or who have dropped out altogether. Through its competency-based approach, BDEA has tackled one of the toughest education conundrums of our time: how to recover low-skilled students two or…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, State Standards, Competence, Alignment (Education)
Easting, G. – Adult Education (London), 1979
Describes an experimental program at the University of Surrey (England) to show children that education can be enjoyable and is not necessarily the regimented, apprehensive affair from which many suffer. The existing teenage program was extended to include younger children and school-vacation day programs were added to the evening classes. (MF)
Descriptors: Community Education, Day Programs, Educational Attitudes, Educational Environment