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Download full textSawyer, Richard; Cosgrove, Susan, Ed. – 1989
This report describes briefly a number of highly effective educational programs in correctional settings. The programs are divided into three sections: juvenile correctional education, local detention/community correctional education, and prison education. Information provided for each program includes address and telephone number; type of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Programs, Correctional Education, Correctional Institutions
Clinchy, Evans – Equity and Choice, 1991
The Teen Parenting Program, combining individualized academic and parenting instruction, has decreased future costs to society by reducing the dropout rate for expectant mothers from 80 percent to 38 percent and second pregnancy rates from 30-45 percent to 8 percent and by increasing birthweights of babies born to program mothers. Describes the…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Dropout Prevention, Early Parenthood, Females
Washington State Board for Vocational Education, Olympia. – 1991
This paper describes 8 Joint Carl Perkins and Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) 8 Percent projects and 18 JTPA 8 percent Education Coordination and Grants projects funded in the state of Washington during the 1991 program year. For the Joint Carl Perkins and JTPA 8 percent projects, the following information is provided in two-page summaries:…
Descriptors: Community Organizations, Cooperative Programs, Demonstration Programs, Employment Programs
Office of Vocational and Adult Education, Washington, DC. Div. of Adult Education. – 1988
This booklet contains descriptions of the 13 finalists in the U.S. Secretary of Education's Program of Awards for Outstanding Adult Education Programs. The programs, which include adult basic education (ABE), English as a second language (ESL), and adult secondary education (including general educational development--GED) programs are grouped into…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Adult Basic Education, Church Programs, Community Colleges
LeConche, John J. – 1975
The project combines full-time and on-the-job work experience with related programs of youth activities and classroom instruction, and provides an avenue for acquiring the Connecticut State Equivalency Diploma. It is aimed at serving young adults in Hartford, Connecticut who have left school before completing 12 years and who are unable to obtain…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Distributive Education
Florida State Corrections Commission, Tallahassee. – 2000
The Florida Department of Corrections Distance Learning Program consists of the Corrections Distance Learning Network; offender programming; staff development; and the Agency Strategic Plan. The Corrections Distance Learning Network offers academic, vocational training, and life management skills programs for offenders and staff development and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Computer Uses in Education, Correctional Education
Mangum, Garth L. – 1983
Despite the fact that, of all the 50 states, Utah has the highest percentage of state and local government expenditures for education and the highest proportion of adults who have graduated from high school, one out of every five adults in Utah lacks basic literacy skills. At present, the following adult literacy programs offer instruction in…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Basic Skills
