STUDIES RELATED TO WORDS IN COLOR, THE MORPHOLOGICO-ALGEBRAIC APPROACH TO TEACHING READING, ARE DISCUSSED. ADULT CLASSES IN MILWAUKEE TAUGHT TO READ BY THIS METHOD ACHIEVED A MEAN GAIN OF .93 OF A YEAR IN 30 HOURS OF INSTRUCTION. IN EUCLID, OHIO, KINDERGARTENERS WHOSE PROGRESS WAS FOLLOWED THROUGH THE SECOND GRADE WERE TAUGHT BY WORDS IN COLOR AND…

THE ADULT EDUCATION PROGRAM OF THE LOS ANGELES CITY SCHOOLS, CONDUCTED IN 28 ADULT SCHOOLS, HAD AN ENROLLMENT OF 190,000 AND A TEACHING STAFF OF 2,200 DURING 1965-66. INSTRUCTION IS PROVIDED IN RESPONSE TO PUBLIC DEMAND EXPRESSED BY ORGANIZATIONS AND ADVISORY COMMITTEES IN 10 AREAS--ACADEMIC, BUSINESS, CIVIC, ELEMENTARY AND CITIZENSHIP, FINE ARTS…

Upon finding that more than 10% of the county's population of 215,000 (1966) were retirees and other senior citizens who had educational needs which were not being met by any single educational agency, members of the Polk Junior College staff developed and implemented a project under the Higher Education Act of 1965 for the purpose of fulfilling…

TESL (Teaching English as a Second Language) students are usually people who are in the process of assimilating a new language and culture and therefore require more than a superficial knowledge of the language. Adults learning English as a second language might be taught by a language experience approach. Building upon the learners' experiences…

The author conceptualizes recurrent education as organized, structured, institutionally sponsored learning activities with intentional outcomes, which are distributed over the life span of the individual in a recurring way. Some problems to which recurrent education proposes solutions include: alienation at the inter-generational level,…

Continuing education for clergy is examined in terms of participation rates and factors, with data based on the 1974 Clergy Support Study. The Study surveyed 19 key American Protestant denominations with results from 4,635 clergy usable for analysis. A systematic examination of the influence on continuing education program participation discusses:…

Systematic guidelines for evaluating programs in adult basic education are presented in the document. Program activities in adult basic education involve four main levels of activity (classroom, local, State, and Federal), each of which can profit from appropriately focused evaluation. Patterns of association among personnel and activities are…

The document examines the need to develop and implement more adequate evaluation methods for broad-aimed adult education programs, and presents some suggestions. Broad-aimed adult education programs are described as those which seek to affect the quality of the learners' lives through education and to help learners cope more effectively with their…

The 1976 annual report of the National Advisory Council on Adult Education (NACAE) summarizes council activities and recommendations on problems in the following areas: (1) parent/early childhood education, (2) program/administrative review, (3) adult education clearinghouse, and (4) State advisory councils. Recommendations for the reorganization…

Concepts on adult education development at the international level are discussed as a basis for the formulation of an international draft recommendation on the development of adult education among member States of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The document is divided into four parts. The first part…

The survey explored the informational, educational, and cultural interests of older people in the Schoolcraft College area to determine what kinds of programs were of most interest to them. A one-page large print questionnaire was administered by a staff person except in the cases where a copy of the questionnaire had been made available through a…

First, the report reviews the history of Federal adult education legislation from the Federal Adult Education Act in 1966 through that of 1970 and presents the accomplishments and problems during those years. Second, the council suggests additions to the proposed Adult Education Act of 1974 concerning program administration, organization, funding,…

The report presents statistical information based on responses to questionnaires from 227 higher education institutions which represent 61.6 percent of the Association of Continuing Higher Education (ACHE) members and 93.3 percent of National University Extension Association members (NUEA). The report categorizes respondents according to…

In the course of his work and travels in the Third World and as a result of his studies in the philosophy of education, the author of this book evolved a theory for the education of illiterates, especially adults, based on the conviction that every human being, no matter how "ignorant" or submerged in the "culture of silence," is capable of…