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Download full textSuhanin, William R. – 1987
This guide for administrators provides a model for linking adult basic education (ABE) programs--ABE, general educational development (GED), and English as a second language (ESL)--with a broad range of human service agencies. The linkage model depicts a process that is divided into three phases. Three chapters discuss in detail these phases.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Cooperative Programs, High School Equivalency Programs, Human Services
Philadelphia School District, PA. – 1997
A project was conducted in Philadelphia to help adult students obtain a high school diploma as an alternative to or enhancement of a General Educational Development (GED) certificate. During fiscal year 1996-97 the Metropolitan Career Center (MCC), in collaboration with the School District of Philadelphia, designed an Alternative Diploma Program…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Cooperative Programs, Curriculum Development, Educational Certificates
Porter, Kathleen – 1982
The New York State External High School Diploma Program is a competency-based assessment system serving adults who can demonstrate both basic and life skills. It represents an alternative to the General Educational Development (GED) program for busy, working adults--offering flexibility in time, location, and mode of assessment. Developed in the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Community Education, Continuing Education
Gacka, Richard – 1997
The Adult Education Alternative Diploma project was conducted to develop an alternative program to the General Educational Development (GED) diploma program through which adult students in Pennsylvania could earn actual high school diplomas. During the year-long project, a competency diploma program was developed and implemented in conjunction…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Competence, Competency Based Education
Lincoln Intermediate Unit No. l2, New Oxford, PA. – 1985
The main objectives of this project were to conduct a writing contest for adult basic education/high school equivalency/English as a Second Language (ABE/GED/ESL) and basic literacy students and to publish an anthology of selected prose (fiction and non-fiction) and poetry entries by those students. Secondary objectives were to promote a greater…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Cooperative Programs, Creative Writing
Amonette, Linda; And Others – 1984
A program was developed to provide adult basic education (ABE) to kidney patients while they are receiving dialysis treatment. The program, which relies on an individualized learning approach, involved the coordinated efforts of the following parties: West Virginia Dialysis Facilities, Inc.; the Charleston Renal Group; and the Kanawha County Adult…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Cooperative Planning, Cooperative Programs
National Inst. for Work and Learning, Washington, DC. – 1987
A study examined existing collaborative activities between private or public employers and adult basic education (ABE), general educational development (GED), and English as a second language (ESL) programs in Maryland's 24 local education agencies. Information was gathered directly from 16 ABE administrators (including 4 community college…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Case Studies
Capital Community-Technical Coll., Hartford, CT. – 1995
The Alliance for Workforce Skills (AWS), a public/private partnership, provided adult basic skills training to employed and unemployed men and women in the Greater Hartford area. Many goals were not met, due in large part to the massive downturn in the Hartford economy. Only one of the four sponsoring corporations was still an active AWS partner…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Cooperative Programs
