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Mulcrone, Patricia; Chapman, Jean B. – 1981
From September 15, 1980 to June 30, 1981, William Rainey Harper College (Illinois) conducted a project to train high school equivalency program teachers with limited-English-proficient (LEP) students in their classes. The training addressed the special needs of the LEP students in mathematics, English writing, and English reading instruction in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Curriculum Development, Equivalency Tests, High School Equivalency Programs
Download full textBorden, Karl J. – 1973
There are more than 60 million U. S. adults who lack a high school diploma. Their employability is decreasing, due to the upswing in white collar occupations. Also, they are often barred from the skilled and unskilled labor market; on-the-job training is increasingly academic; General Educational Development (GED) examinations are rigorous and the…
Descriptors: Adult Dropouts, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Adult Students
McAlister, Annette, Comp. – 1990
This document contains descriptions of 55 adult education experimental demonstration projects and 18 adult education staff development projects conducted in Pennsylvania in fiscal year 1991. The projects are funded through Section 353 of the Adult Education Act of 1988. Each description includes a project number, project costs, contact person with…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Correctional Education, Counseling
Werner, Evelyn, Comp. – 1991
This document contains descriptions of 66 adult education experimental demonstration projects and 18 adult education staff development projects conducted in Pennsylvania in fiscal year 1992. The projects are funded through Section 353 of the Adult Education Act of 1988. Each description includes a project number, project costs, contact person with…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Correctional Education, Counseling
Clearinghouse Adell, Rockville, MD. – 1978
This catalog summarizes the information provided by forty-six states on 360 adult basic education projects funded under sections 306A and 309 of the amended Adult Education Act of 1966 during fiscal year 1978. Each of the one-page summaries, arranged alphabetically by state, includes one or all of the following: the state identifier, a subject…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Catalogs, Community Involvement
Perin, Dolores – 1987
The Consortium for Worker Literacy is made up of a group of New York City unions that are providing literacy education to workers and their families in order to help them adjust to a radically changing labor market. The consortium operates a degree program for workers in collaboration with the City University of New York. At a different academic…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Consortia
Fischer, Joseph C.; Larson, Katherine E. – 1995
The evaluation report details the structure and outcomes of a workplace education program for members of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers' Union from May 1993 through March 1995, and assesses the program's design as a model for similar programs elsewhere. The program was designed to enhance workers' skills and meet personal educational…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Cooperative Programs, Curriculum Development
Werner, Evelyn C., Comp.; Harmon, Cheryl M., Comp. – 1993
This book contains more than 100 abstracts of projects conducted in Pennsylvania during fiscal year 1992-93 funded through Section 353 of the federal Adult Education Act of 1988 (P.L. 100-297). The projects were developed to strengthen the Adult Basic Education (ABE) program through experimentation with new methods, programs, and techniques. In…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Correctional Education, Curriculum Development, Daily Living Skills
Parker, James, Ed. – 1986
This catalog, which describes over 350 projects, is the ninth in a series of annual listings intended to inform adult educators about projects funded under Section 310 of the Adult Education Act. The projects are organized according to the following areas: administration, assessment, community linkage, computer-based programs, correctional…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Programs
Alaska State Dept. of Education, Juneau. Centralized Correspondence Study. – 1987
Seventeen Massachusetts programs involving schools and communities working together to support the educational success of linguistic minorities are described. The programs represent a cross-section of efforts in the state serving a variety of language groups. Program focuses include: (1) supplemental support and resources for Cambodian students;…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Agency Cooperation, Asian Americans, Bilingual Education Programs
