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Download full textCalifornia Postsecondary Education Commission, 2008
This report examines the various adult basic skills programs in operation in California, and explores program funding and structure, enrollment and demographics, and to the extent data allow, program outcomes. This measure is presented as part of the Commission's Performance Accountability Framework for California postsecondary education. Among…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Programs, Adult Basic Education, High School Equivalency Programs
Steeves, Roy W. – 1969
In May 1966, the Bureau of Adult Education, California State Department of Education, conducted a questionnaire survey on accepted program practices and on attitudes of administrators of school district programs toward innovative practices in instruction for non English speaking, Spanish surname adults. Of 366 program administrators queried, 191…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Educational Innovation, Instructional Programs, Non English Speaking
Price, Caroll O. – Thrust for Educational Leadership, 1979
Suggests alternative support sources and marketing techniques for school districts whose adult education budgets were slashed by California's property tax cutting initiative, Proposition 13. (SJL)
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Educational Finance, Financial Problems, Financial Support
MARTINEZ, FRANK ROBERT – 1963
A STUDY WAS MADE TO DEVELOP CRITERIA FOR EVALUATING FIVE ASPECTS OF THE ADULT EDUCATION CURRICULUM--PHILOSOPHY, CHARACTER, PLANNING, IMPROVEMENT, AND EVALUATION TECHNIQUES. ONE HUNDRED TWELVE STATEMENTS OF POLICY WERE DRAWN FROM THE LITERATURE, VALIDATED BY A QUALIFIED JURY, AND RATED BY 91 FULL TIME ADULT EDUCATION ADMINISTRATORS AND BY 42 ADULT…
Descriptors: Administrators, Adult Educators, Curriculum Evaluation, Doctoral Dissertations
Los Angeles County Superintendent of Schools, CA. – 1966
Based on a study of training needs among personnel connected with homes for the aged in California, this publication is a teacher's manual as well as a course of study for older adults, their friends and relatives, volunteer workers, and professionals. The following topics are covered: the aged in a changing society; the increase in the aging…
Descriptors: Activities, Age, Bibliographies, Curriculum Guides
DEGABRIELE, EUGENE; AND OTHERS – 1966
PUBLIC SCHOOL ADULT EDUCATION IN CALIFORNIA HAS DEVELOPED FROM A REMEDIAL AND ELEMENTARY PROGRAM TO ONE MEETING THE CONTINUING EDUCATIONAL NEEDS OF ADULTS. TO PROVIDE LEADERSHIP AND TO HELP SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS SEEKING EXCELLENCE IN ADULT EDUCATION PROGRAMS, THE HANDBOOK HAS BEEN REVISED TO INCLUDE CHAPTERS ON FEDERAL AID, STANDARDS FOR PROGRAM…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Educational Opportunities
DEGABRIELE, EUGENE H. – 1967
ADMINISTRATORS OF ADULT EDUCATION PROGRAMS IN ADULT SCHOOLS AND JUNIOR COLLEGES IN CALIFORNIA WERE SURVEYED IN MAY 1967 AS TO WAYS IN WHICH THEIR PROGRAMS WERE SERVING THE EDUCATIONAL NEEDS OF ADULTS AGED 50 AND OVER. FINE ARTS, CRAFTS, HOMEMAKING, BUSINESS EDUCATION, AMERICANIZATION, CIVIC EDUCATION AND SPECIAL FIELDS, VOCATIONAL AND INDUSTRIAL…
Descriptors: Age, Agency Cooperation, Driver Education, Educational Opportunities
Koehler, Lawrence E. – 1968
This revised edition of the 1951 bulletin of the California State Department of Education updates materials from the original handbook, includes information from a handbook on inservice teacher training, and adds a brief history of adult education. It should be of practical value to teachers of adults, their supervisors and school administrators.…
Descriptors: Adults, Bibliographies, Curriculum Development, Evaluation Methods
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. – 1967
THE PLAN INCLUDES SPECIFIC GUIDELINES FOR PROGRAM PROPOSALS TO QUALIFY CALIFORNIA FOR TITLE II FUNDS AND SERVE AS A POLICY GUIDE FOR STATE AND LOCAL PROGRAMS. IT PROVIDES FOR SECONDARY SCHOOL DISTRICTS TO PROVIDE INSTRUCTION IN CIVIC, VOCATIONAL, LITERACY, HEALTH, HOMEMAKING, TECHNICAL, AND GENERAL EDUCATION FOR ADULTS. SHORT TERM OBJECTIVES…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Adult Basic Education, Agency Cooperation, Expenditures
BRASH, FRED B. – 1964
A STUDY WAS MADE OF DROPOUTS FROM DAYSCHOOL AND THEIR REASONS FOR ATTENDING FRESNO ADULT SCHOOL AS PART-TIME EVENING STUDENTS. A CHECKLIST TYPE QUESTIONNAIRE, BASED ON MILDRED PARTEN'S "SURVEYS, POLLS, AND SAMPLES," WAS COMPLETED BY 258 MEN AND 427 WOMEN ENROLLED IN HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA OR ELEMENTARY CERTIFICATE CLASSES. AMONG REASONS FOR…
Descriptors: Dropout Characteristics, Educational Certificates, Elementary Education, Evening Programs
Robinson, Byrl Elmer – 1969
The purpose of this study was to determine whether the use of the initial teaching alphabet (ITA) would have a beneficial effect upon English language learning when used with adult Spanish speaking students. The study consisted of five randomly selected English as a Second Language classes in the Los Angeles City Unified School District divided…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Conventional Instruction, Doctoral Dissertations, English (Second Language)
Stewart, Robert Miller – 1967
This study evaluated the guidance program of the Los Angeles City Adult Schools to determine if existing guidance services are adequately meeting clientele needs. Criteria obtained from the literature were submitted to a panel of consultants, who used a rating scale to identify significant criteria. An appraisal instrument was devised and refined;…
Descriptors: Adult Counseling, Bibliographies, Career Counseling, Doctoral Dissertations
Shields, Regis Anne; Ireland, Nicole; City, Elizabeth; Derderian, Julie; Miles, Karen Hawley – Education Resource Strategies, 2008
This report is one of nine detailed case studies of small urban high schools that served as the foundation for the Education Resource Strategies (ERS) report "Strategic Designs: Lessons from Leading Edge Small Urban High Schools." These nine schools were dubbed "Leading Edge Schools" because they stand apart from other high…
Descriptors: Small Schools, High Schools, Educational Quality, Urban Schools
Winslow, Jacqueline Lee – 1968
This study investigated numbers and percentages of San Diego Adult School graduates completing their first semester of college work during 1962-67, locations of colleges attended, numbers of students attending, grade point averages (GPA) and number of credit courses taken, and GPAs for graduates out of state, in California, in the San Diego area,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Colleges, Credit Courses
California State Postsecondary Education Commission, Sacramento. – 1976
This document represents the completion of the first phase of a study of adult and continuing education in California. The current method of funding community colleges in general, and adult/continuing education programs offered by community colleges and school districts specifically, are examined, their shortcomings noted, and alternatives to the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Average Daily Attendance, Community Colleges
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