This paper describes the Basic Skills Learning System, a comprehensive curriculum development effort designed to deliver a variety of materials via the PLATO System in the three content areas of reading, language, and mathematics. Design criteria required that the system be individualized, adaptive, and responsive as well as modularized and…

Research documenting links between levels of education and health outcomes suggests people with higher educational attainment may have a health advantage. Health literacy issues that go beyond basic skills include health information communication; literacy and health as cultural and social practices; a relationship among health information,…

The North Central Indiana Workplace Literacy Initiative seeks to develop a curriculum management system addressing work force literacy needs and a coordinated human resource investment system meeting individual economic self-sufficiency needs and labor market needs. The workplace of the future will contain six key changes: employers will require…