The final report of a project that developed a catalog of all 4,783 adult education programs in Region 8 (Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming) is presented. The document discusses two aspects of the project: (1) the development and implementation of the catalog and (2) the identification and in-depth study of nine…

The Federally sponsored regional training workshops for adult education personnel in cultural/ethnic understanding were designed to increase the level of awareness of cultural/ethnic differences. A training design was developed following an analysis of the Culturally Oriented Teacher Education Materials developed by the Phelps-Stokes Fund, a…

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 Appalachian Adult Education Center (AAEC) provided non-formal library training institutes in ten southeastern states over a three-year period, 1973-1976. With the cooperation of the state libraries, AAEC conducted institutes at 77 individual libraries and involved whole library staffs, as well as useful and interested community and agency…

Offering an overview of the adult education program of Quitman County, Mississippi and its development from 1967 to 1969, the report reviews the history of the community-based project, community problems, resident participation, and project objectives. Begun in 1967 as a volunteer program in adult education for the poor of that rural Delta region,…

The first year report of the Health Education and Welfare (HEW) Region 2 Adult and Continuing Education Staff Development Project administered by Montclair State College reflects the objectives and activities of New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands as they sought to improve their staff development capability in 1972-73. The…

The document describes the methods, procedures, and results of the evaluation of the Quitman County Project, an adult basic education demonstration program with 147 participants in four learning centers in Mississippi. Data were collected by means of site visits, observation, interviews and standardized achievement tests. In terms of student…

The overall purpose of the Quitman County Demonstration Project was: (1) to identify, demonstrate, and test effective and innovative procedures for implementing a community based, voluntary program in adult basic education (ABE); (2) to develop and validate new approaches in training the instructional leadership for adult basic education through…

The final report of the Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) Region II Adult and Continuing Education Staff Development Project, administered by Montclair State College, synthesizes the project's efforts for regionalization of staff development for New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. Chapter 1 covers administrative…

The document is the final report for fiscal year 1974-75 of a rural adult secondary education demonstration project sponsored by the regional agency, Top of Alabama Regional Education Service Agency (TARESA), serving five northeastern Alabama counties. Program features include the use of educational television on a statewide basis and the…

A study was undertaken to gather data for use in planning a regional learning exchange network that would meet the learning needs of adults in three counties in the gulf coastal region of Mississippi. During the study, project-developed questionnaires were administered to representatives of agencies that would either host or sponsor the learning…