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Lewis, Raymond J., Jr. – 1980
A combination of demographic, economic, and technological factors has led to a recent growth in adult learning that is likely to intensify in the next decade. As the members of the baby boom population move further along in their pursuit of careers, they will encounter considerable limitations in their upward occupational mobility. In addition,…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students
Oinonen, Charlotte M. – 1984
These proceedings consist of the texts of papers and panel discussions presented at a Parker Project-sponsored futures symposium on youth, work, economic productivity, and the challenges facing Wisconsin's secondary schools in providing job training for the future. Addressed in the individual presentations included in this volume are the…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Disadvantaged Youth, Economic Development, Education Work Relationship
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Brown, Christopher – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2005
In this age of greater accountability, local school districts within the USA increasingly use summer school programs as an intervention service to provide students who have failed to meet classroom, district, or state performance requirements with the opportunity to "catch up." Although such programs attempt to provide varying types of…
Descriptors: Intervention, Attention Deficit Disorders, Summer Programs, Special Needs Students
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Jacobs, George; Hannah, Dan – International Journal of English Studies, 2004
This article begins with a section that describes cooperative learning and explains eight cooperative learning principles. The second section discusses the interface between cooperative learning and language pedagogy. Next is a section about the why and how of reading aloud by teachers. The heart of the article resides in the last and longest…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Reading Aloud to Others, Program Descriptions, Educational Principles
Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. – 1976
The l975 Educational Testing Service (ETS) Invitational Conference provided an overview of the social indicators movement, and the relationship between schooling and quality of life. The concept of educational indicators was discussed. Educational indicators are defined as statistics used to provide information regarding the status of particular…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Awards, Conference Reports, Cost Effectiveness
Cort, H. Russell, Jr.; Peskowitz, Nancy – 1977
The document summarizes a two-year longitudinal evaluative study of the elementary school social studies curriculum, "Man: A Course of Study" (MACOS), which was compared with other social studies programs. The aims of the study were to examine what MACOS students seemed to learn, what they retained, and how what was learned was different…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Anthropology, Classroom Environment, Comparative Analysis
Dawson, George G., Ed. – 1978
Twenty award winning, teacher-developed programs, projects, courses, and materials in economic education are presented. These case study projects are designed to be used with kindergarten through college students. The case studies are organized by grade level into five chapters. Chapter I suggests ways to teach economic concepts to educable…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Awards, Business Education, Case Studies
National Center for Voluntary Action, Washington, DC. – 1978
The document views citizenship education from the perspectives of the past and present and offers recommendations for improving citizenship education programs. The document is presented in three chapters, preceeded by an introductory essay highlighting major developments in citizenship education in the United States since the colonial period.…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Childhood Attitudes, Citizen Participation, Citizenship
2002
This document contains three papers from a symposium on learning at the top that was conducted as part of a conference on human resource development (HRD). "Learning at the Top: An Investigation of Nonprofit CEOs' (Chief Executive Officers') Learning Experiences" (John J. Sherlock) reports on a study that used Mezirow's theory of adult…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Adult Learning, Aesthetic Values, Aesthetics
Currie, Sheila; Foley, Kelly; Schwartz, Saul; Taylor-Lewis, Musu – 2001
In 1998, Canada's Social Research and Demonstration Corporation (SRDC) conducted case studies of two work-based training and skill development programs for street youth in Vancouver, British Columbia. The BladeRunners program places youth on construction sites while encouraging them to work toward an apprenticeship in the building trades. The…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Adult Education, Apprenticeships, Building Trades
Klapan, Anita; Lavrnja, Ilija – 2001
General education and professional education are both important in a learning society. Pedagogy has devoted all its attention to developing general education while regarding professional education as a type of nonobligatory education. From the beginning, general education and professional education have been divided, with the former oriented…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Articulation (Education), Change Strategies
McDonald, Marya; Castleton, Geraldine – 2001
This document critiques various discourses about mentoring within the context of adult learning environments in general and adult literacy programs in particular. Mentoring is defined as an enabling or developmental relationship that occurs in partnerships wherein experienced individuals kindle knowledge and offer support to protgs in joint…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Case Studies
Williams, Melanie; Bateman, Andrea – 2003
Practices and policies regarding graded assessment in vocational education and training (VET) in Australia were examined. Data were collected through a literature review; focus groups involving approximately 120 stakeholders in 5 states; interviews with 49 representatives of registered training organizations (RTOs); and surveys of RTOs, students,…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Competence, Competency Based Education, Coordination
Putnam, A. R. – 2001
Research on how the brain works has resulted in wider-scale adoption of the principles of problem-based learning (PBL) in many areas of education, including technology education. The PBL approach is attractive to curriculum developers because it is based on interdisciplinary learning, results in multiple outcomes, is integrated and…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Adoption (Ideas), Classroom Techniques, Competency Based Education
Purton, Debbie – 2000
This document presents and discusses the 12 family literacy standards for family literacy programs in Saskatchewan, Canada, that were developed during a 2-year process by Saskatchewan's Family Literacy Best Practices committee. The document is: (1) an educational tool to develop greater understanding of effective literacy practices; (2) a program…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Communication (Thought Transfer)
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