Background: Access to higher education in rural areas has been a recurring theme of debates and government inquiries in many countries in recent decades. Previous research is relatively unequivocal regarding the importance of higher education for regional or national development, identifying the local presence of highly educated individuals in a…

Modern societies would potentially reap large benefits from upgrading low skilled's education. However, this is difficult to put into practice because employers are reluctant to train low skilled and because low skilled are unwilling to participate. To circumvent this potential market imperfection, a large supply of formal education in Sweden is…

This study investigated two widely-used early literacy skill's indicators in reflecting growth in first-grade language achievement skills. It compared two curriculum-based assessments of letter knowledge: Letter Naming Fluency (LNF) and Letter Sound Fluency (LSF) in the Arabic language. A sample of 125 first-grade students, 100 average readers and…

GED testing candidates have many options available to them to prepare for the GED Test, including adult education classes, practice tests, and self-study. This study focused on candidates who voluntarily took the GED Test and could choose freely among preparation activities. We examined GED Test preparation activities and created eight mutually…

Dropping out of high school seriously impacts an individual's job opportunities, income potential and employment stability. To minimize those risks, individuals can earn a General Educational Development (GED) credential. Researchers have studied the impact of obtaining a GED on candidates' lives and found that the credential affects their…

The ongoing dilemma for those expected to improve schools is how to meet our society's basic aims for public education in ways that level the playing field. The dilemma is exacerbated by the need to do more with less. This brief approaches these matters in the context of three direct functions that are essential to school improvement: (1)…

This article gives opinions and information from 318 public school adult education graduates on such matters as sources of information, reasons for getting a diploma, course offerings, program effectiveness, and needed improvements. Three tables. (LY)

The Danish folk high school, in its four to six-month residential setting combined with absolute social freedom, provides a rewarding proving ground for the comparison and testing of the qualities of life. It would be unlikely to succeed in the United States because of basic differences between the two societies. (SA)

Argues for a collegiate center for adult education in areas of 150,000 population, to provide the focus of area provision. There would be a team of full-time adult education principals, teachers, and administrators, whose responsibilities would embrace both day and evening work. (EB)

Comments on the report recently issued by the National Institute of Adult Education as a result of inquiries made into provision for adult education in six areas in England and one in Wales between the years 1967 and 1969. (Author/EB)

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)