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Gagnon, Joseph C.; Barber, Brian R.; Van Loan, Christopher; Leone, Peter E. – Education and Treatment of Children, 2009
This study focused on school-level approaches to curriculum, as well as school, principal, and student characteristics in juvenile corrections (JC) schools for committed youth. A national random sample of 131 principals from these schools responded to a mail and on-line survey. No statistically significant differences existed between respondent…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Learning Disabilities, Behavior Disorders, School Districts
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Pasternack, Robert; And Others – Journal of Correctional Education, 1988
This article describes the continuum of educational services that have been designed and implemented to meet the needs of juvenile delinquents committed to a correctional facility. Correctional education administrators will find a model that has been successful in diagnosing, placing, and providing appropriate services to meet those needs. (JOW)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Correctional Education, Delinquency, Disabilities
Littlefield, John F., Ed. – 1985
These proceedings contain four papers. In "Identifying Learning Disabilities in Correctional Facilities," Ronald E. Fritsch and Donna D. Tynan discuss two types of learning disabilities that may affect incarcerated youth: developmental (problems in attention, memory, perception, thinking, and oral language) and academic (problems in reading,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Behavior Change, Correctional Education, Delinquency
Office of Vocational and Adult Education (ED), Washington, DC. Clearinghouse on Adult Education. – 1983
This catalog, the sixth in a series of annual listings of special adult education projects, is designed to keep practitioners in the field of adult education informed about projects funded by states under section 310 of the Adult Education Act. Included in the catalog are descriptions of a total of 243 projects focusing on the following program…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Correctional Education
Tolbert, Michelle – 2002
Secure state correctional facilities currently house more than 1.8 million adults, and nearly 4.4 million adults fall under state-administered community corrections. A state's approach to corrections and the communication between the state correctional components can have a large impact on the state's correctional education program. Decentralized…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Annotated Bibliographies, Clearinghouses
Office of Vocational and Adult Education (ED), Washington, DC. Clearinghouse on Adult Education. – 1982
This catalog of adult education projects for fiscal year 1982 is the fifth in a series of annual listings of education projects funded by states under Section 310 of the Adult Education Act. Included in the catalog are descriptions of 255 developmental activities in the following program areas: adult basic education, administration, adult…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Annual Reports
Werner, Evelyn C., Comp.; Harmon, Cheryl M., Comp. – 1997
This document presents abstracts for 30 projects that were conducted in Pennsylvania in fiscal year 1995-1996 with federal funds allotted to strengthen adult basic and literacy education through experimentation with new methods, programs, and techniques and professional development for personnel working in adult basic education programs. Among the…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Action Research, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy