Educational philosophy and planning in the Delaware Department of Public Instruction must be conducive to broadly based adult and continuing education, especially for the large proportion of Delaware adults who are undereducated and disadvantaged. Local school district responsibility should include budgeting, staffing, promotion, and program…

This set of instructional guidelines for adult basic education stresses understanding of the characteristics and problems of disadvantaged adults; developing basic communication skills (listening, speaking, writing); selection of instructional materials and equipment; effective classroom techniques for arithmetic and reading instruction; and an…

Sponsored by the Ford Foundation, workshops for trainers of trainers of teachers in adult basic education were held in the summer of 1965 at the Universities of New Mexico, Maryland, and Washington. Administrators, supervisors, university faculty, and teachers (155 in all) were trained; each workshop had its own approach and developed its own…

Descriptions of the program title, its administering agency, legislative authorization, main purpose, target population, funding, stipends, programs and facilities, administration and coordination, enrollee characteristics, course and teacher characteristics, course outcome, program measurement, and recommendations (if any) for improvement are…

The primary purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of participation in adult basic education on changes in selected non-cognitive attributes: anomia, self-concept, and internal-external control of environment. Two subsidiary problems were to examine the differences in levels of anomia, self-concept, and internal-external control of…

The present policies and standards for the approval of separately-administered adult high schools were drafted by a task force appointed in 1971 and were adopted in March 1973. It is anticipated that the standards will aid all adult high schools to move forward to new levels of effectiveness. Policies stated relate to definition, school…

The U.S. Office of Education sought applications for a first-year proposal of a potential three-year staff development project in each of nine Health, Education, and Welfare regions. Region II (New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands) received one of the grants with the objective of designing a competency-based staff development…

Current definitions of illiteracy and functional illiteracy are reviewed, and their relationship both to estimates of the scope of the problem and to efforts toward its solution are discussed. Applying functional standards according to the requisites of particular societies, it can be seen that even countries with high literacy rates, such as the…

Efforts to substantially reduce adult illiteracy in the United States have been largely unsuccessful. The purpose of this study was to obtain a basic word list, based on oral vocabulary of adult black illiterates in two urban centers, which could subsequently be used to develop basic education reading materials, reading tests, and a readability…

The Adult Basic Education in Corrections Program discussed in this paper is a model for redirection in corrections; it is an acknowledgement of the need to provide educational programs to meet the special needs of adult offenders. Three outcomes have been realized from the program thus far: analysis of the situation, synthesis of a conceptual…

This paper develops a rationale for using a systems approach for inmate welfare, and defines personnel training and model implementation as two basic elements for an affective corrections system. The problem of inmate welfare is conceptualized, and the systems approach is defined. A process for producing a model and the process of producing and…

The program, methodology, techniques, and materials used at the Adult Continuing Education Center located at Danville (Illinois) Junior College are described. The program is divided into five levels from beginning or introductory through GED preparation. A non-graded, individualization approach is used with support for such an approach found in…

The objectives of this three day seminar were to increase the knowledge about the functionally illiterate adult and his characteristics, research about non-reading adults, materials available for them, public library services and programs for illiterate adults as well as basic adult education activities offered by schools and other community…

A STUDY WAS MADE BY MODESTO JUNIOR COLLEGE, MODESTO, CALIFORNIA, AT THE NEW HOPE ADULT RETRAINING CENTER, PART OF THE MODESTO MULTIOCCUPATIONAL PROJECT UNDER THE MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING ACT, IN WHICH TRAINEES, TEACHERS, AND ADMINISTRATORS IDENTIFIED CHARACTERISTICS OF AN EFFECTIVE ADULT BASIC EDUCATION TEACHER. STUDENT OPINIONS WERE…

In 1977, the focus of teachers of English--and of all members of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)--should be the development of the arts and skills of reading and writing, especially by students who have been unsuccessful in those areas. This focus, with literature as its content, should include talking, listening, and…