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Download full textRitzman, Mary Bucher – 1975
In order to provide an historical perspective on the development of Consumerama (a 4-H program initiated in 1969 by the Pennsylvania Cooperative Extension Service), a 34-item questionnaire was developed and distributed to persons having prime responsibility for 4-H Consumerama activities in each of Pennsylvania's 67 counties. After securing a 100…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Age, Consumer Education, County Programs
Community Action Southwest, Waynesburg, PA. – 1994
This document consists of a brief final report and a handbook from a project conducted to develop family numeracy activities and incorporate them into adult basic and literacy education (ABLE) classes in two Pennsylvania counties. The 10 activities, which were designed to help adult learners foster the development of numeracy concepts/skills in…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, County Programs, Family Literacy, Family Programs
Leto, Lyn – 1994
An adult basic education (ABE) class was developed to help parolees of the Schuylkill County Prison develop reading, writing, and communication skills and use those skills in a community service project aimed at helping at-risk youth. Parolees were recruited into the project through county parole officers, and their reading, writing, self-esteem,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, At Risk Persons, Basic Skills
Graham, Janet Roth – 1980
The Adult Basic Education Linkage Project (originally titled Project Reach) was designed to expand and promote linkage of adult basic education (ABE), English as a second language (ESL), and general equivalency degree (GED) programs in Western Pennsylvania with community groups and businesses and to conduct an extensive, ongoing outreach campaign…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Community Cooperation, Community Coordination, Community Involvement
Lehigh County Community Coll., Schnecksville, PA. – 1993
Lehigh County Community College (Pennsylvania) and the Lehigh County Senior Citizens' Center collaborated on a project to assess the learning needs of the senior center's 1,600 members. A needs assessment completed by 68 center members and interviews of an additional 38 center members established that senior citizens preferred short-term workshops…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Consumer Education
Norristown Area School District, PA. – 1977
The System of Planned Activities in Career Education (SPACE) project was undertaken (1) to create a meaningful, cooperative effort between the area vocational technical school and the sending schools for the purpose of expanding career education to meet the needs of all children and (2) to establish a system to serve as a model for implementing…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Career Awareness, Career Choice, Career Development
