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BCEL Newsletter for the Business Community, 1988
Organizations and groups responsible for the bulk of the nation's adult basic skills provision are currently reaching an estimated 9-10 percent of the needy population. This represents an increase from the 7-8 percent reached in 1984. Adult Basic Education (ABE), the largest single program in the nation, has shown an overall growth in enrollment…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Basic Skills
Borden, Jill – 1984
This guide contains information intended to help schools set up volunteer programs and use volunteers to conduct and enhance adult education programs. Although the handbook is aimed at the field of adult education, it also contains information that could be used to recruit and use volunteers in programs in any field. The guide is organized in…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Educational Planning
Download full textChatham, Ronald L., Ed.; Redbird-Selam, Helen M., Ed. – 1973
A three-day institute on Indian adult education and the voluntary sector was sponsored by Church Women United. The speeches dealt with Indian culture and Indian people, effective approaches to teaching, ways teachers can communicate with students of a very different culture, and practical suggestions for Indian adult education programs. The…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Programs
Corley, Mary Ann; And Others – 1992
This document presents seven papers prepared by experts in the field of adult education on the issues related to developing and implementing quality indicators from the perspective of their program areas or organizational affiliations. "Indicators of Program Quality for Adult Basic Education" (Mary Williams) addresses the appropriateness of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Programs, Community Colleges, Community Organizations
Philadelphia Mayor's Commission on Literacy, PA. – 1984
This report on the program highlights of the first national conference on urban literacy contains 40 information sheets describing the literacy programs represented at the conference. Each program information sheet contains some or all of the following: the name of the program; the name, address, and phone number of a program contact person; the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Adult Reading Programs
Elsdon, K. T. – 2001
This document examines the history of the diverse range of postschool activities such as adult education, youth work, community work, and voluntary organizations that were known as "other further education" (OFE) and offered in the United Kingdom from 1944 to 1992. The following are among the topics discussed in Chapters 1-7: (1) further…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Adult Programs, Art Activities
