The Community Learning Center (CLC) evaluation is based on on-site visits and interviews with staff and students of widely differing ethnic backgrounds. Teaching resources are varied. The Model Cities program is the basic source for CLC funding; the Cambridge Public Library is the center's local sponsor. The external bureaucratic framework needs…

A dropout survey was conducted in 1974 at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Education Center, Kankakee, Illinois, to determine why only 38% of its one thousand adult basic education students completed their studies and earned a GED diploma. A variety of formats was used to contact some of those who had been students between 1968 and 1974, including:…

In order to provide a basis for enrollment projection, curriculum development, and overall college planning, the Office of Research at El Camino College analyzed various characteristics of the fall 1975 student population according to age. The eight graphs presented in this report provide the following information: (1) distributions of percent of…

This conference report is the ninth in an annual series. The theme of the 1975 international conference was continuous education, the provision of education for individuals at any time in their lives when they think it beneficial. The text consists of 27 papers that address the continuous education theme, educational media related to the theme, or…

The Women's Reentry to Education Program (WREP) at San Jose City College is a one-year program designed for low-income, urban women who want to return to school. It is different from the educational experiences traditionally offered to disadvantaged women, who are expected to learn to type, become assembly workers, or enter other stereotyped…

The book contains 15 papers focusing on adult illiteracy in Great Britain in the context of the community, but excluding the prison population, trainees at Adult Training Centres, patients in mental hospitals, or literacy education in the armed forces. The papers are presented in three sections. Part 1 on students contains six papers: "The…

The handbook's purpose is to improve recruiting methods for adult basic education (ABE) programs and is the outcome of an Iowa project that solicited responses from ABE coordinators in two questionnaires. The information is organized around major topics. Each topic is followed by possible solutions, implications, and a summary. Various recruiting…

This paper describes a freshman composition course at a community college which was taught by television and which included thirty 30-minute tapes and an accompanying study guide. Entitled "Writing for a Reason," the primary objective of the course was to help students write effectively so they will be able to fulfill their writing requirements in…

Three papers from a half-day seminar which formed part of a meeting of the World Confederation of Organizations of the Teaching Profession have been compiled in this document. An Overview of Adult Education in England and Wales and the Role of the Professional Education Association by E. W. Foulser touches on the absence of a pattern in the…

Project BEAM, a special experimental demonstration project funded by the Adult Education Act, attempted to motivate undereducated adult Iowans to learn to read, to make the project known, and to make available for nationwide distribution the television and radio materials developed for the project. The two-phase project was conducted from…

An external degree is one that may be earned outside the central structure of a college or university. The most common form of external degree program is the evening college in which students, who are usually working adults, meet the standard requirements for a four-year degree by taking a part-time program after work. No allowances are made in…

The major goal of the Developmental and Demonstration Project in Adult Basic Education at North Carolina State University is to identify, develop, and evaluate innovative materials and instructional systems that will accelerate and enhance the learning process in undereducated adults through the use of modern educational technology and media.…

Studies have shown that many approaches developed for work with the disadvantaged work as well with adult students at all levels who are learning a variety of subjects and skills. Some of these techniques--programed instruction, students teaching other students, individualization of instruction with free and low-cost materials--are described in…

The Adult Career Education Counseling Project classified 800 documents relevant to the competencies needed by counselors of adults and has presented them in a classification schema of seven major categories: (1) Counseling and Guidance, (2) Adult Counseling and Guidance, (3) Adult Education, (4) Career Education, (5) Competencies, (6) Training,…

This document provides enrollment and Average Daily Attendance (ADA) projections for the district and for each college within the district for the next five years. Enrollment data are divided into day and evening components; ADA data are divided into Defined Adult and Other-Than-Defined-Adult components. District enrollment is projected to total…