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Download full textLutheran Social Mission Society, Philadelphia, PA. Lutheran Settlement House. – 1994
General Educational Development (GED), pre-GED, and adult basic education students and teachers in Lutheran Settlement House Women's Program GED classes participated in the production of two magazines focusing on women's and community issues. The process included the following: surveying GED classes to determine which current issues were of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, High School Equivalency Programs, Periodicals, School Publications
Peck, Jacqueline G. – 1994
A study explored the nature of adult learners' social networks by interviewing six adult learners at a suburban northeast Ohio adult education site. Five of the subjects were working to pass the General Education Development Test and one was a student of English as a Second Language. The study found that several of the subjects had social networks…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, English (Second Language)
Fardig, Diane – 1992
The purpose of this evaluation is to provide formative Information about selected Orange County Public Schools (CPS) dropout prevention and retrieval programs. The following seven alternative learning programs were evaluated: School-Within-a-School; Alternative Resource Elementary Classrooms; The Challenge Center; The Plaza Center; BETA and ACEPT…
Descriptors: Continuation Students, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropouts
Leto, Lyn – 1998
A program was conducted to implement a "regular high school" adult diploma program built on a school-to-work philosophy and operated through a two-county, multidistrict lifelong learning consortium in Pennsylvania. The project also provided a rural, cooperative program model ready for replication in other areas in order to provide…
Descriptors: Consortia, Cooperative Programs, Education Work Relationship, High School Equivalency Programs
Discipleship Outreach Ministries, Brooklyn, NY. – 1989
This collection of writings by students in literacy, General Educational Development (GED) and pre-GED programs includes over 30 poems, personal narratives, stories, and brief essays of self-expression on a variety of topics. Many are first attempts at communicating ideas through writing. (MSE) (Adjunct ERIC Clearinghouse on Literacy Education)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, English (Second Language), High School Equivalency Programs, Literacy Education
Branson, Robert K. – 1992
Technology transfer, for purposes of this paper, refers specifically to the importing of a methodology from one setting to another in order to meet previously unmet needs. The Job Skills Education Program (JSEP), a computer-based functional basic skills curriculum originally developed for the U.S. Army, has been "transferred" to the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Basic Skills, Career Information Systems
Colorado Community Coll. and Occupational Education System, Denver. – 1992
This volume, part of a series of eight curriculum guides compiled by the Colorado Workplace Learning Initiative: 1991-92, contains two courses: workplace literacy for limited English proficient (LEP) persons and a General Educational Development Programs (GED)/English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) tutorial with the Adult Literacy Network (ALN), a…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Curriculum Guides, English (Second Language)
Allen, Colleen A., Ed.; Jones, Edward V., Ed. – 1992
This booklet commemorates the General Educational Development (GED) Testing program's first 50 years. Included are the following: (1) a description of a GED graduation; (2) reminiscences of three GED administrators; (3) success stories from five GED graduates; (4) descriptions of eight special GED programs; (5) an explanation of how the GED system…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Dropout Programs, Educational Attainment, Educational History
Mississippi Gulf Coast Community Coll., Jackson. – 1992
This manual documents a family literacy program developed by Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College and conducted at a local elementary school. It describes how the program combined General Educational Development (GED) courses for parents with a preschool program for their 3- to 4-year-old children. Based on the Kenan Family Literacy model…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Community Relations, Family Literacy, Family Role
Roeske, C. Edward – 1994
This paper describes the University of Tennessee's High School Equivalency Program (HEP), one of 21 programs throughout the United States aimed at assisting seasonal and migrant farm workers in improving their level of employment and education. For the first 4 years, the University of Tennessee's HEP was a campus-based residency program, but in…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Daily Living Skills, Educational Attainment, Educational Opportunities
Utah State Office of Education, Salt Lake City. – 1990
This report describes the educational and economic achievements and challenges of the Utah adult education program in a statistical outline and in a chart format. Section A outlines general achievement information: numbers of Utah adults without a high school diploma; total enrollees; educational achievements (attendance, diploma or passage of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Cost Effectiveness
Manzella, Louis A. – 1991
A practicum aimed to improve the basic literacy skills of juvenile delinquents in a county jail by using relevant experiences as the basis of learning. Two corollary aims were to increase the number of high school diplomas generated through the General Educational Development (GED) test, and prepare students to function in the outside world.…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Correctional Education, High Risk Students, High School Equivalency Programs
Remizoff, Mary – 1990
The Calgary Program for Parenting Adolescents (PPA) was designed to provide an opportunity for parenting teenaged girls to complete their high school education. For the purposes of evaluation, surveys were developed for each of the respondent groups: students (n=58), teachers (n=26), PPA staff (n=10), PPA coordinating committee members (n=4), and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Community Health Services, Community Programs, Continuation Students
Meno, Marie A., Comp. – 1986
This narrative report provides descriptive information on the Louisiana adult education program. The report compares accomplishments to goals established for fiscal year 1986; defines reasons for slippage in areas in which goals have not been met; and determines on a statewide basis the average cost per student. Some of the highlights of the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Programs, Adult Students, High School Equivalency Programs
Ferencak-Elias, Elizabeth; And Others – 1990
Using 1989-90 Pennsylvania Department of Education Section 353 Special Demonstration Project funding, Fayette County Community Action Education Center students produced a booklet that includes biographies and photographs of successful program alumni. The booklet describes events in people's lives that contributed to their being undereducated and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Educationally Disadvantaged, High School Equivalency Programs
