The three-year Special Experimental Adult Basic Education (ABE) Project was established in Tucson, Arizona, in order to identify and recruit residents known to have minimal academic skills or a minimal ability to communicate in the English language. ABE services, developed to meet individual needs, were offered in the home by project teachers when…

Teachers and paraprofessionals working as instructors in adult English as a Second Language (ESL) programs needed special training to increase their ESL skills and subject matter knowledge. A review of the literature on adult education traces the development of the concept from the eighteenth century to the present, examines the recent particular…

The report on postsecondary education in New York State is a general survey of general education, technical education, and professional education programs in the State's postsecondary educational institutions. The report's introductory sections present current and projected statistics on numbers of colleges and students and discuss the basic…

Despite the constraints of budget and space, the Division of Continuing Education (DCE) of New York City Community College in 1973-74 enrolled a total of 8,358 students in 276 courses. Comparison of this report with two previous reports evidences continued growth in diversity and number of programs. Apparent, too, is the evolution of many…

The Northern Region Education Group conducted a comprehensive survey of the needs and resources for adult continuing education in the North Country, consisting of St. Lawrence, Franklin, Lewis, and Jefferson Counties of New York State. Detailed institutional profiles were attempted of all the providers of such services, notably the nine colleges…

The 1970 seminar of the Mountain States Regional Medical Program, Wyoming Division, focused on the development of continuing education programs for health workers in Wyoming, a sparsely populated State. Specific seminar objectives were to: stimulate interdisciplinary planning for continuing education, develop continuing education planning groups…

The study was commissioned for two purposes: (1) to document the specific needs for continuing education and community service in Texas and (2) to develop a plan through which needed post-secondary education could be made available to adults. The goals of continuing education and community service revolve around new opportunities for all groups,…

The Plantation Adult Basic Education Program started in 1970 as an alternative to poverty for sugar cane workers in Louisiana. The document discusses the various aspects of the poverty conditions that exist in the area, such as: housing, diet, health, education, and lack of consumer information, and how these existing conditions are to be changed…

Operation Breakthrough, a special demonstration project to upgrade Spanish-speaking workers in entry-level factory jobs, was evaluated by a third-party evaluator at the end of its first year. The teacher training program was found, through interviews with teachers and aides, to be excellent. Curriculum materials were provided by the project, but…

The report of the Individualized Learning for Adults (ILA) project reviews the history and development of the instructional system and focuses on the procedures, accomplishments, and results of the field testing conducted during 1971-72. Stressing mathematics and communication skills, the ILA system leads the adult learner to approximately ninth…

The study was an attempt to obtain information about a variety of adult education programs in Nebraska by assessing the number of adult education programs or courses, the number of people being reached, and the number of professional or volunteer staff people involved. The document opens with a literature review of selected studies on growth of…

A group counseling program for mature women students with family responsibilities was established to assist women in adjusting to their new roles as students. Participants were selected after undergoing an individual interview screening and orientation to the nature and purposes of the program. This approach was used to select only those…

The guidelines are divided into two parts. Part 1 lists four principles and explains the rationale for the American Nurses' Association (ANA) position regarding continuing education. It enumerates nine responsibilities of the ANA for continuing education and itemizes the five responsibilities of the State Nurses' Association (SNA). Part 2 presents…

The study is the third of a series concerning the function of the U.S. Armed Forces Institute (USAFI) High School General Educational Development (GED) program. Information was sought to enable GED program managers to improve the effectiveness of their programs. Questionnaires were sent to a stratified random sample of 1,000 recent former Army…

Community services programs for the Foothill Community College District are described and statistics indicating their level of activity for 1970-71 are presented. This progress report also includes a 5-year budget projection and future program plans. The recreation program includes structured and unstructured athletic and recreational events. A…