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Egan, Patsy; Andress, Elizabeth – COABE Journal: The Resource for Adult Education, 2018
Establishing adult career pathways is challenging, complex work. In Minnesota, a new professional development initiative provides ABE managers with a facilitated, supported, year-long cohort as they work to create or strengthen a career pathway program in collaboration with WIOA partners in their localities. In this article, the rationale, design,…
Descriptors: Career Development, Professional Development, Management Development, Program Effectiveness
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Johnson, Kimberly A.; Frank, Margaret M. – Journal of Research and Practice for Adult Literacy, Secondary, and Basic Education, 2012
This paper reports on findings and implications from a two-year evaluation of the Minnesota STudent Achievement in Reading (STAR) Project. This long-term, job-embedded, professional development activity is provided for Minnesota Adult Basic Education (ABE) practitioners serving intermediate-level adult students reading between 4.0 to 8.9 grade…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Evidence, Adult Basic Education, Adult Students
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Reynolds, Sharon L.; Johnson, Jerry D.; Salzman, James A. – Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 2012
The extant literature offers little to describe the processes for screening students in adult basic education (ABE) programs for potential learning disabilities, referring adult students for diagnostic assessment, or barriers to obtaining diagnostic assessment for a learning disability. Without current documentation of a learning disability, ABE…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Program Effectiveness, Adult Basic Education, Adult Students
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Chlup, Dominique; Tomaszewski, Lesley – Adult Basic Education and Literacy Journal, 2008
In this study, we measure the impact of the services of a large Southern state's literacy resource center on the state's adult literacy programs. Too often, literacy resource centers are the "forgotten player" in the field of adult literacy, being omitted from policy discussions. The findings from this study indicate that the services of…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Resource Centers, Context Effect, Literacy Education
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de Koning, Mireille; Striedinger, Angelika – Convergence, 2009
In early 2009, Education International conducted a study amongst its member organisations on education in correctional settings in their respective countries. Findings reveal that education in correctional settings and the conditions of teachers working in them vary greatly between regions. Generally speaking, in most regions, but specifically in…
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Collective Bargaining, Foreign Countries, Correctional Rehabilitation