Mentally retarded persons achieved an eighty percent job success rate through efforts of the National Association for Retarded Citizens, with funding from the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), when trained by employers on jobs matching their capabilities. Types of jobs successfully performed by retarded persons are listed. (MF)

The Massachusetts Workplace Education Initiative was established in 1986 to create 6 model workplace literacy education programs and later expanded, with state and federal funding, to more than 20 programs at over 40 worksites. The initiative was developed in response to the growing recognition of functional illiteracy in an increasingly complex…

This document provides one-page abstracts of the 39 workplace literacy programs funded through the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Vocational and Adult Education in 1990, and a resource guide for persons involved in such projects. The funded projects focus on basic literacy skills needed in the workplace and use reading and mathematics…