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Crew, B. Keith; And Others – 1985
Computerized analysis of 1980 Census data documented educational deficiencies in 85 Central Appalachian counties of Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. Dropout rates among youth ages 16-19 were found to be higher in Central Appalachian counties than in non-Central Appalachian counties, the poorest counties had the highest dropout…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Disadvantaged Schools, Dropout Rate, Dropout Research
Download full textBingman, Mary Beth; Ebert, Olga; Bell, Brenda – 2002
Three teams of teachers and administrators from three adult basic education programs in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia participated in a 2-year action research project that focused on developing approaches that local programs can use to document the outcomes of student participation in adult education programs. Facilitators helped the teams…
Descriptors: Accountability, Action Research, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy
Drennon, Cassandra; Erno, Susan – 1998
This guide is designed to assist professional development facilitators responsible for helping Virginia's adult literacy practitioners develop and implement the professional development plans that constitute a key component of the state's professional development system for paid and volunteer literacy training providers. The following are among…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy, Annotated Bibliographies
Finn, Donald – 2000
The Virginia Adult Learning Resource Center located at Virginia Commonwealth University serves various professional development needs of adult education practitioners throughout the state. In order to determine whether the center was providing the professional development resources, information, and services that the state's adult education…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy
Bateman, Mary Jo; And Others – 1991
This document, a curriculum guide focusing on both independent living skills and job readiness skills, is based on the experience of the Bilingual Vocational Education program in Virginia. The lessons are sequenced to increase in difficulty as students acquire more English skills, but individual units do not necessarily require competencies…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Literacy, Career Planning, Class Activities
Boraks, Nancy; And Others – 1982
A project was undertaken to develop, field test, and revise strategies for adult beginning readers (ABRs). During the first phase of the study, the researchers identified roadblocks to use of word recognition clues by ABRs. Based on data and feedback from local and state piloting and general principles of learning, the project staff developed the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Adult Students
1997
This guide, which is intended primarily for adult education practitioners in Virginia, explains the process of developing workplace basic skills programs. Presented first is background information on the guide's development. The following are among the topics discussed in the guide's seven chapters: the need for work force education (changes in…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy
