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Toward Full Literacy in the Pacific. Report of a Sub-Regional Workshop on Youth and Adults with Limited Literacy Skills (1st, Apia, Western Samoa, May 9-17, 1988).
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Apia (Western Samoa). Office for the Pacific States. – 1988
Participants in the workshop on literacy reported in this document included 15 educators and specialists from the Cook Islands, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, and Western Samoa. Chapter 1 reports an assessment of the present literacy situation in the South Pacific with particular attention to the problem of hidden illiteracy. Chapter 2…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Data Collection
The Assessment of Readiness for School: Implications for a Statistical Program. Report of a Planning Conference (Washington, D.C., January 13, 1987).
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Brown, George H.; Faupel, Elizabeth M. – 1987
In January of 1987, a planning conference was convened by the Center for Education Statistics as part of an effort to study the feasibility of various approaches to the nationwide assessment of children's readiness for instruction in kindergarten and first grade. This report provides, in an appendix, the texts of the four commissioned papers…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Data Collection, Educational Assessment, Educational Policy
Microcomputers, Education, and Children. Proceedings of the National Conference (Nashville, Tennessee, September 24-28, 1984).
Tennessee State Univ., Nashville. Center for Training and Technical Assistance. – 1984
The topics of the 17 papers included in this proceedings are: (1) enriching and empowering young children's learning with microcomputers; (2) a program designed to make all students computer literate who complete the eighth grade in Tennessee schools; (3) how school systems should purchase microcomputers; (4) a team approach to microcomputer…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Children, Classroom Design, Computer Assisted Instruction
Creating a Literate Future. A National Forum on Strengthening Policies and Partnerships for Adult Education and Training for Native Americans/Alaska Natives (St. Paul, Minnesota, October 12-14, 1995).
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J & E Associates, Inc., Silver Spring, MD. – 1995
This document contains information from the national forum Creating a Literate Future for the Year 2000, which was held to help state team delegations develop vision/mission statements and action plans citing goals, objectives, and activities for enhancing adult literacy and education for Native Americans and Alaska Natives. Presented first are…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Vocational Education, Alaska Natives