ERIC Number: ED380262
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1994
Pages: 30
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Real Talk, 1994.
Fink, Mary, Ed.
Real Talk, v17 n1-6 1994
This series of bilingual newsletters (English and Spanish) provides information to migrant youth who have dropped out of school. Newsletters describe the experiences of migrant youth who have obtained their General Educational Development (GED) certificate or have enrolled in vocational or college programs. Other topics treated in this volume include results of the National Adult Literacy Survey, including sample tasks from the survey; information on how to enroll in High School Equivalency Programs (HEP); student profiles describing their learning experiences in HEP; information available through the toll-free Migrant Hotline; nutritional information stressing the importance of healthy eating; identifying personal strengths; career information on teaching and health occupations; steps for preparing to take the GED exam; definitions of physical and sexual abuse; and various sources that offer help with career planning. (LP)
Descriptors: Career Planning, Careers, Dropout Programs, Dropouts, Education Work Relationship, Emotional Abuse, High School Equivalency Programs, Higher Education, Individual Development, Mexican Americans, Migrant Education, Migrant Programs, Migrant Youth, Nutrition, Postsecondary Education, Secondary Education, Sexual Abuse, Student Experience
Publication Type: Collected Works - Serials; Guides - Non-Classroom; Multilingual/Bilingual Materials
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Language: EnglishSpanish
Sponsor: Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (ED), Washington, DC. Migrant Education Programs.
Authoring Institution: State Univ. of New York, Geneseo. Coll. at Geneseo. Migrant Center.
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: National Adult Literacy Survey (NCES)
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