As one of the peripheral areas in the state's provision of education, adult education in evening institutes has always been the first to be questioned and criticized, and the first to be restrained and curtailed by administrative or financial restirctions. (Author/EB)

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,…

TO DETERMINE WHETHER RETENTION IN PUBLIC ADULT NIGHT SCHOOL PROGRAMS IS RELATED TO SOCIO-ECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF PARTICIPANTS OR TO THE LENGTH AND NATURE OF COURSES, THIS STUDY WAS MADE OF PATTERNS OF PARTICIPATION IN SUCH PROGRAMS IN WHITE ROCK, BRITISH COLUMBIA. DATA WERE DERIVED FROM 2075 REGISTRATION CARDS AND 98 COMPLETED ATTENDANCE…

Designed to help secondary school districts plan continuing education activities and to define possible areas of program coordination between districts, this 1970 inventory of continuing education activities represents responses from 353 (59.6%) of the secondary school districts in Pennsylvania. It indicates the number of courses (a total of 503)…

A STUDY WAS MADE OF ATTENDANCE IN ADULT EVENING CLASSES IN A BRITISH COLUMBIA URBAN SCHOOL. CLASS RECORDS FROM THE YEAR 1963-64 WERE STUDIED, THE 266 COURSES (WITH 5240 REGISTRANTS) VARYING IN LENGTH AND SUBJECT CONTENT. SUBJECT CATEGORIES WERE -- ACADEMIC (33 SESSIONS LONG), A REPLICATION OF A PREADULT LEARNING SITUATION, WHICH PROVIDED CREDIT…

Discusses adult and continuing education programs in the public school district and the use of these programs to engender community support for the school in passing school budgets. Gives examples of efforts in Scotia-Glenville Central Schools, Scotia, New York: various evening classes, career guidance services, and teacher in-service credit…

TO RELATE PERSONALITY NEEDS TO DROPOUT AND ACHIEVEMENT AMONG ADULT LEARNERS, A SAMPLE OF 90 MALES AND 50 FEMALES WAS RANDOMLY DRAWN FROM THE 600 REGISTRANTS IN THE HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, FLORIDA, ADULT EVENING HIGH SCHOOL DURING THE FIRST WEEK OF CLASSES. THE EDWARDS PERSONAL PREFERENCE SCHEDULE WAS ADMINISTERED TO THE SAMPLE, AND THE DATA WAS…

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…

This investigation sought to discover why adults dropped out of the adult basic education program and the General Education Development program in the New Orleans public schools, and to suggest ways of reducing the number of dropouts. A specially constructed interview schedule was used to obtain data from a 10% random sample of 1965-67 dropouts…

A STUDY OF NIGHT SCHOOL STAYINS AND DROPOUTS (PERSONS WHO MISSED CONSECUTIVE CLASSES) USED A RANDOMLY SELECTED SAMPLE OF 240 STAYINS AND 243 DROPOUTS FROM THE METROPOLITAN TORONTO (ONTARIO) BOARD OF EDUCATION EVENING CLASSES. INTERVIEWS WERE GUIDED BY QUESTIONNAIRES BUILT TO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE FINDINGS OF PREVIOUS RESEARCH. BOTH CODING…

The status of Adult Education programs is discussed in this speech by the Superintendent of Schools in Amsterdam, New York. A state-wide curriculum is proposed which includes evening high school, vocational-occupational programs, civic programs, job retraining, and recreational programs. The need for involving the community in continuing education…

One of a series of one year and four year followups in the Jackson County (Iowa) Adult Evening High School Completion Program, this study assessed the educational, social or personal, and/or financial gains experienced thus far by the 58 member Class of 1970. General information (age, sex, residence, marital and family status) was sought, along…

TO STIMULATE PUBLIC DISCUSSION AND ACTION TO IMPROVE PROVISIONS FOR ADULT EDUCATION AND TO BRING ATTENTION TO PROBLEMS WHICH HAD NOT BEEN FULLY CONSIDERED BY THE ROBBINS COMMITTEE, THE NATIONAL UNION OF STUDENTS PRESENT THIS REPORT OF ALL FORMS OF OPPORTUNITY OPEN TO ADULTS OUTSIDE THE NORMAL FRAMEWORK OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN GREAT BRITAIN. IT…