Publication Date
| In 2025 | 0 |
| Since 2024 | 0 |
| Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 0 |
| Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 0 |
| Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 1 |
Descriptor
Source
| Goodling Institute for… | 1 |
Author
| McShane, Barbara A. | 1 |
| Prins, Esther | 1 |
| Reiff, Tana, Ed. | 1 |
| Schafft, Kai | 1 |
| Smith, Thomas B. | 1 |
| Strain, Richard L. | 1 |
| Toso, Blaire Willson | 1 |
Publication Type
| Guides - Non-Classroom | 3 |
| Collected Works - General | 1 |
| Guides - Classroom - Teacher | 1 |
| Legal/Legislative/Regulatory… | 1 |
| Reports - Descriptive | 1 |
| Reports - Research | 1 |
Education Level
| Adult Education | 1 |
Audience
| Practitioners | 6 |
| Administrators | 2 |
| Policymakers | 1 |
| Teachers | 1 |
Location
| Pennsylvania | 6 |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
| General Educational… | 1 |
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Download full textPrins, Esther; Toso, Blaire Willson; Schafft, Kai – Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy, 2008
Although many women value and benefit from social interaction in adult education and family literacy, these social dimensions are often treated as tangential or inconsequential. Utilizing data from two studies of family literacy programs in Pennsylvania, this study examined how family literacy programs provide a supportive social space for women…
Descriptors: Females, Adult Education, Literacy Education, Family Literacy
Pennsylvania State Dept. of Education, Harrisburg. Bureau of Adult Basic and Literacy Education. – 2002
This publication presents the family literacy program performance standards for which all Pennsylvania family literacy programs (both Pennsylvania Adult Basic and Family Literacy Education Act 143 and Even Start) will be held accountable. It begins with an implementation plan that discusses the legislative background of the performance standards…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Educational Legislation
McShane, Barbara A.; Strain, Richard L. – 1994
The Bethlehem Area Chamber of Commerce addressed family literacy through the promotion of a "Jump into Reading" videotape and its accompanying brochure in local businesses and schools as well as throughout Pennsylvania. Jump into Reading was designed to teach parents the importance of reading aloud to their children and offer techniques…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Corporate Support, Education Work Relationship
Smith, Thomas B. – 1994
This guide was developed during a demonstration project conducted in three diverse, multiethnic Western Pennsylvania communities to use older adult tutors as mentors to improve Head Start parents' literacy skills and ability to develop their children's literacy. The guide is intended to facilitate tutors' learning about family literacy and to give…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Cooperative Programs, Demonstration Programs
Pennsylvania State Univ., McKeesport. – 1999
This publication consists of the complete set of 23 monographs developed by the Pennsylvania Action Research Network to supplement the 67 monographs produced over the past 3 years. The specific audience are literacy, General Educational Development (GED), and English-as-a Second Language (ESL) practitioners. The titles are: "Use of…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy
Reiff, Tana, Ed. – 1996
This guide, which is intended for administrators of programs providing adult basic and literacy education (ABLE) services in Pennsylvania, contains 59 individually authored papers devoted to planning, managing, and improving ABLE programs. The following are among the topics discussed in the guide's five sections: understanding the role of the ABLE…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Coordination
