Guidelines for starting a public school adult education program are presented and discuss the collection of basic data on community characteristics, community involvement, program administration and funding, curriculum, teacher hiring, program-school relationship, enrollment, policies, and community advisory board. (LH)

This booklet discusses counseling for adults in the adult school--either by guidance officials or the teacher. The typical counselor interviews students, functions at group meetings, does cooperative placement work, trains other staff, keeps records, and gives tests. When the teacher acts as counselor, he must relate teaching goals to guidance…

Recommendations for increasing participation of functionally illiterate adults in community education programs include decentralization of educational sites, availability of transportation and child care, and instruction stressing functional literacy and teaching reading and computation as tools for solving students' personal and social problems.…

A PHILOSOPHY OF ADULT EDUCATION MUST RECOGNIZE LEARNING AS ESSENTIAL FOR SURVIVAL AND CONSIDER THE NATURE OF THE ADULT STUDENT, THE TEACHER'S SKILLS AND ABILITIES, AND THE SPECIFIC SUBJECT TO BE TAUGHT. THE ENGLISH TEACHER OF ADULTS AT THE SECONDARY LEVEL IS PLAGUED BY A LACK OF APPROPRIATE MATERIALS AND AN UNAVAILABILITY OF LIBRARY FACILITIES,…

Adult continuing education is seen as an essential for everyone and for every community, with the addition of part-time adult students to the total student body of a school system not overburdening the existing administration. (Author/LH)

It was found in this study that agency-paid adult students were more likely to rate educational goals higher in importance than self-paid students, contrary to the popularly held belief of adult secondary-school staff that these students are unmotivated to study and learn. (Author/AJ)

The School for All Ages (SFAA) integrates local adults, with academic levels from nonreaders through high school, into a regular K-12 program. The coordinator's role in attracting, orienting, and supporting adult students is outlined, as are the advantages and disadvantages of joint classes for adults and children. (SJL)

The administrator of a high school equivalency program discusses the needs and preferences of returning adult students and suggests steps that the school can take to make these students feel comfortable on campus and in the classroom. (SJL)

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…

The full text of a speech regarding opportunities for adults to earn high school completion credentials, delivered to the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, is presented in the document. The GED program is described in terms of its testing validity and age restrictions. It is stated that although the GED testing approach is a…

This report, comprising a diagnostic study of a city adult school, was prompted by concern over declining enrollment, which had dropped nearly one-third over a 4-year period. A task force approach was adopted by the graduate students conducting the research, and five areas of study were formulated: administration; community interests;…

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…

The objectives of this project were (1) to develop participant feedback materials that can be used by local adult vocational education (AVE) administrators for program planning, implementation, and evaluation and (2) to determine why participants enroll in AVE programs. A follow-up survey which contained key items from the follow-through system…

A study was conducted to investigate the impact of basic education on the lives of adult welfare recipients who were required to return to school as part of their participation in a Family Support Act (FSA) comprehensive welfare reform program and to describe the tensions that developed in a welfare reform program that mandated collaboration…

Assessment instruments for use with adult learners are summarized; findings of a test use survey of 163 California districts serving adult students are given; and management techniques for administering large and small group tests are suggested. Forms for the evaluation of test instruments and for an assessment survey are appended. Tests reviewed…