Literacy and illiteracy are cultural; the need to read, to write, and to compute comes from values placed on these functions by the cultural or social group in which one lives. They are also intergenerational. This intergenerational factor should be turned around so that parents transmit literacy to children. Illiteracy is also costly to society…

More and more organizations are helping their employees take advantage of new college and university programs that mix a lot of independent study at home with minimal on-campus work. A variety of independent study degree programs and typical students participating in these continuing education programs are described. (MW)

The communications system at the residential New England Center for Continuing Education is described. Using the Center as an example, ways are explored in which educational technology can be supportive of adult conference activities which focus on concerns to campus and community. (AG)

The survey was sent to senior administrators of continuing and extension education in 100 colleges and universities, and was designed to elicit comparative data, trends and developments for the period 1964-74. The responses are presented in summary form which follows the survey instrument format. (SA)

This lecture explains the history, purpose, and future of the Danish folk high school, considered a small but vital part of that country's adult education system. As an introduction, the term, folk high school, is defined to mean a school for young adults, usually nineteen or twenty years old, which deals with the individual's role in life and…

The Center for Vocational Education at Ohio State is conducting a survey to locate career development services for adults, and the article gives several examples from the 100 programs already identified. (Author)

A recent feasibility study showed broad interest in accreditation among a number of organizations which provide continuing education for adults. The Continuing Education Council, devoted to the improvement of continuing education through accreditation, has been established. (MW)

STUDIES RELATED TO WORDS IN COLOR, THE MORPHOLOGICO-ALGEBRAIC APPROACH TO TEACHING READING, ARE DISCUSSED. ADULT CLASSES IN MILWAUKEE TAUGHT TO READ BY THIS METHOD ACHIEVED A MEAN GAIN OF .93 OF A YEAR IN 30 HOURS OF INSTRUCTION. IN EUCLID, OHIO, KINDERGARTENERS WHOSE PROGRESS WAS FOLLOWED THROUGH THE SECOND GRADE WERE TAUGHT BY WORDS IN COLOR AND…

THE ADULT EDUCATION PROGRAM OF THE LOS ANGELES CITY SCHOOLS, CONDUCTED IN 28 ADULT SCHOOLS, HAD AN ENROLLMENT OF 190,000 AND A TEACHING STAFF OF 2,200 DURING 1965-66. INSTRUCTION IS PROVIDED IN RESPONSE TO PUBLIC DEMAND EXPRESSED BY ORGANIZATIONS AND ADVISORY COMMITTEES IN 10 AREAS--ACADEMIC, BUSINESS, CIVIC, ELEMENTARY AND CITIZENSHIP, FINE ARTS…

Upon finding that more than 10% of the county's population of 215,000 (1966) were retirees and other senior citizens who had educational needs which were not being met by any single educational agency, members of the Polk Junior College staff developed and implemented a project under the Higher Education Act of 1965 for the purpose of fulfilling…

TESL (Teaching English as a Second Language) students are usually people who are in the process of assimilating a new language and culture and therefore require more than a superficial knowledge of the language. Adults learning English as a second language might be taught by a language experience approach. Building upon the learners' experiences…

The author conceptualizes recurrent education as organized, structured, institutionally sponsored learning activities with intentional outcomes, which are distributed over the life span of the individual in a recurring way. Some problems to which recurrent education proposes solutions include: alienation at the inter-generational level,…