Adult basic education students manage adult responsibilities and obligations and personal goals related to school. They commit their time and limited resources and thus are investors in their own learning. As investors, their voices matter. When one countywide adult basic education program implemented a systemic plan to ask students upon entry…

Zimbabwean economic migrants and political refugees have been given refuge and provided with shelter at the Central Methodist Church (CMC) Refugee House, in central Johannesburg. The refugees have successfully initiated learning and training programmes which resulted in the establishment of a combined school, namely "St. Albert Street Refugee…

The report relates the experience of contractors with the Manpower Administration of the Department of Labor in providing adult basic education to manpower program clients in research and demonstration projects. It summarizes the findings and progress of several experimental projects from the initial efforts under the Manpower Development and…

The report describes the accomplishment of the objectives of a project, the overall purpose of which was to disseminate a video-taped adult basic education teachers training program (Basic Education: Teaching the Adult) to interested institutions of higher education in 10 educational regions. The 10 objectives dealt with conducting regional…

The report describes a workshop for adult basic education teachers in Ohio which utilized the teacher training television series, "Basic Education: Teaching the Adult." Responses from teachers identified the two clusters of content presented: (1) measurement/diagnosis of student learning and individualized instruction, and (2) teaching reading and…

The report to the North Carolina State Board of Education regarding the status of adult basic education (ABE) in the 57 institutes belonging to the North Carolina Community College System is presented in two parts. The first part consists of an overview of the operations of the ABE program, which offers educational opportunities to undereducated…

The project provides for a five-State (Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and New Mexico) consortium designed to upgrade competencies of all levels of Adult Basic Education (ABE) personnel. The major points of focus are: establishing bases for higher education; training State Department, university, and local ABE personnel by means of…

Adult education opportunities can be increased through cable television technology, which provides home-based instruction as an alternative to the strictures of the classroom or learning center. The 18-month Salem project used television for primary instruction together with the services of paraprofessional tutors as a personal contact for…

The main objectives and activities of the Adult Basic Education (ABE) Demonstration Project are evaluated for the 1971-72 project year in the Model Neighborhood Area of Chattanooga, Tennessee. Briefly discussed are: a community overview, general program status, program management (program goals; job descriptions for the project director,…

The geographic area served included five counties in northeastern Oklahoma. Needs and interests of students enrolled in adult basic education courses were assessed by questionnaire. Counselor interviews with interested students followed, which focused on job requirements and qualifications, preparations, and training. Guest…

Considers the meaning of professionalization for adult-literacy education. Surveys a group of practitioners, concluding that a credential could enhance the quality of adult-literacy instruction but that providing credentials is inextricably bound up with the issue of funding. Describes initiatives underway in four states, providing examples of how…

Finds that the supportive environment of "women helping women" was the hallmark characteristic of a local Even Start family literacy program and that participants were not consciously thinking about family literacy but joined the program for themselves and gave no indication of seeing the connection between the adult literacy component…

The historical and contemporary involvement of the public library in non-traditional education is presented with the focus on adult basic education. Although most of the programs cited are in the United States, frequent references are made to international applications as described in United Nations reports and foreign case studies. Information…

The project was conducted to find out if there was a need for an adult education program to provide instruction in job-related competencies in the basic skills of reading, writing, math, spelling, and communications for the unemployed and underemployed of Mohave County, Arizona. The report presents the procedures used to identify the persons…

A study of the philosophies and practices of community-based literacy programs focused on their nature, characteristics, and needs. Five activities were conducted: determination of criteria for defining literacy programs as community-based; program identification; survey and interview of program directors; meetings and follow-up conversations with…