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Download full textAmerican Association of Retired Persons, Washington, DC. – 1992
This book offers guidance for persons interested in planning an intergenerational school partnership program. Intergenerational partnership programs are designed to bring generations together in the school setting, through activities and experiences that benefit everyone involved. They encourage older persons from the community to volunteer to…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Education Work Relationship, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
Alamprese, Judith A.; Tao, Fumiyo – 2001
The National Center for Family Literacy (FCFL) began the Family Independence Initiative (FII) to address the needs of welfare recipients and their families for literacy services. During the FII's development phase in 1997-1998, NCFL funded five family literacy program grantees to develop models of work-focused family literacy services. To satisfy…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Career Awareness, Coordination
PDF pending restorationGacka, Richard C. – 1996
A project undertaken to determine the feasibility of integrating components of secondary-level tech prep and school-to-work programs into adult basic and literacy education (ABLE) programs. Applied academics curriculum materials developed by the Center for Occupational Research and Development (CORD) and the Agency for Instructional Technology…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Alternative Assessment, Articulation (Education), Career Planning
National Governors' Association, Washington, DC. – 1992
These proceedings include 13 "perspectives from the field" and 9 selected papers (with abstracts) from a national conference on recommended policies and practices for investing in youth. The 13 perspectives papers are as follows: "Saving the Next Generation" (Berlin); "Effective Strategies for Investing in Youth"…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Community Action, Coordination, Dropout Prevention
Brown, Bettina Lankard – 2001
Workplace mentoring has been identified as an important aspect of work-based learning in projects conducted under the School-to-Work Opportunities Act. By establishing relationships with caring and competent adults who can provide emotional support and facilitate skill development, less-experienced youths and adults are more likely to bridge the…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Adult Programs, Business Education, Case Studies
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
DeWitt Wallace/Reader's Digest Fund, Pleasantville, NY. – 2000
The first meeting of the National Literacy Summit 2000 convened 150 leaders from adult education and literacy and other related fields for a 2-day intensive working meeting to begin building a national consensus on how to move adult and family literacy forward in the 21st century. Comments and suggestions offered by summit participants were…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Change Strategies
