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Jones, Yvonne J. – 1981
In 1980-81 the 8 high schools of the Secondary Adult Program incorporated 176 adults into their regular routines. (Of these, 89 completed the school year following individualized curricula.) Teachers whose classes had less than the maximum allowed enrollment of regular students accepted one or more adult students. The Secondary Adult Program…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Adults, Continuation Students
Download full textPhiladelphia School District, PA. – 1997
A project was conducted in Philadelphia to help adult students obtain a high school diploma as an alternative to or enhancement of a General Educational Development (GED) certificate. During fiscal year 1996-97 the Metropolitan Career Center (MCC), in collaboration with the School District of Philadelphia, designed an Alternative Diploma Program…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Cooperative Programs, Curriculum Development, Educational Certificates
Gacka, Richard – 1997
The Adult Education Alternative Diploma project was conducted to develop an alternative program to the General Educational Development (GED) diploma program through which adult students in Pennsylvania could earn actual high school diplomas. During the year-long project, a competency diploma program was developed and implemented in conjunction…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Competence, Competency Based Education
Lenox, James A.; Spinner, Ruth – 1978
This manual examines components of a non-traditional adult high school program. It is intended to aid districts interested in establishing similar programs. The first of five parts defines the role of the weekend non-traditional high school as designed to meet the needs of undereducated adults who are unable to participate in evening high school…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Adult Education, Adult Programs, Case Studies
Leto, Lyn – 1997
In 1996, individuals associated with the Lifelong Learning Center in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, proposed the formation of a three-district literacy consortium in a tricounty rural area that would cooperatively offer adults residing in the districts the option of earning a standard high school diploma in lieu of a General Educational…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Basic Skills
Gruber, Samuel C. – 1997
This document contains information from and about Project AchievE (sic), a program that was developed in Pennsylvania's Cumberland Valley School District to enable adults with or without a General Educational Development certificate to earn a regular high school diploma by mastering competencies in the following categories: government and law;…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Basic Skills
