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Download full textWhite, David G.; Levin, James A. – Complicity: An International Journal of Complexity and Education, 2016
The goal of this research study has been to develop, implement, and evaluate a school reform design experiment at a continuation high school with low-income, low-performing underrepresented minority students. The complexity sciences served as a theoretical framework for this design experiment. Treating an innovative college preparatory program as…
Descriptors: Educational Change, High Schools, Low Income, Low Achievement
Chase-Lansdale, P. Lindsay; Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne – Future of Children, 2014
Most of the authors in this issue of "Future of Children" focus on a single strategy for helping both adults and children that could become a component of two-generation programs. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, on the other hand, look at actual programs with an explicit two-generation focus that have been tried in the…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Early Childhood Education, Adult Education, Job Training
Office of Vocational and Adult Education (ED), Washington, DC. Div. of Adult Education and Literacy. – 1994
This booklet profiles the 10 recipients of the 1994 Secretary of Education's Award for Outstanding Adult Education and Literacy Programs. The following programs are profiled: Portland Adult Education (Portland, Maine); The Center for Literacy, Inc. (Philadelphia); James H. Groves Adult High School (Dover, Delaware); Adult Basic Skills Education…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Programs
National Advisory Council on Adult Education, Washington, DC. – 1984
This document provides an overview of programs and activities in adult and secondary education, along with statistical data about adult education efforts in the United States. The first part of the document presents seven short sections about council functions and programs in adult education. Included in these sections is the following…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Bilingual Education
Royce, Sherry – 1985
This 310 Special Project performed the following activities: (1) reviewed 10 years of Pennsylvania's materials funded under Section 310 of the Adult Education Act and published six "FOCUS on Curriculum" bulletins describing outstanding projects; and (2) prepared a 1985 addendum to Pennsylvania's listing of publishers' materials for adult…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adults, Bulletins
Kasworm, Carol E., Ed.; Lyle, Buddy L., Ed. – 1978
Selected contributions from a workshop on competency-based adult education (CBAE) are presented in this monograph. The articles define the current trends in the theory and practice of CBAE. The monograph consists of five major sections. Section 1, the overview, offers a historical frame of reference, examination of terminology and definitions, a…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Basic Skills
