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Pennsylvania State Dept. of Education, Harrisburg. – 1993
This third annual Pennsylvania Progress Report is designed to convey to the citizens of Pennsylvania information on how well we are progressing on our road to achieving the National Education Goals. This report has three parts. The first part is a description of the major education initiatives undertaken in 1993 by Governor Casey. The second and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Literacy, Educational Change, Educational Environment
Reiff, Tana – 1997
This package includes the final report and selected products of the Adult education eXpress Intercommunication Support (AXIS) project, which was conducted to facilitate communication related to professional development services administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education's Bureau of Adult Basic and Literacy Education (ABLE) and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Computer Uses in Education, Coordination
Royce and Royce, Inc., Lancaster, PA. – 1999
A special demonstration project was undertaken to provide technical support to a Pennsylvania program that identifies and honors outstanding adult basic education and literacy (ABLE) students throughout the state. Included among the project's outcomes were the following: (1) publication of a Success Stories booklet titled "Spreading the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Classroom Techniques
Pennsylvania State Univ., McKeesport. – 1999
With the existence of 67 monographs and approximately 60 practitioners trained in action research in the western and central parts of Pennsylvania from project years 1995-98, the 1998-99 Section 353 project expanded the action research network (ARN) to include teachers, administrators, and researchers in the northeastern and southeastern parts of…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy
Royce, Sherry, Ed. – 1994
This bibliography lists 52 recently published resources for adult basic literacy education (ABLE) and English-as-a-second language (ESL) adult learners. The materials featured were selected from more than 350 books, videos, and computer-assisted instruction programs evaluated by a panel of Pennsylvania ABLE educators. The guide, the fifth in a…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Citations (References), Daily Living Skills
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
Edmonston, Ginny – 1999
The Clinton County (Pennsylvania) Development Center for Adults studied to what extent the planning and evaluation process for adult learners in the adult basic education/General Educational Development program was improved by the use of an individualized education plan (IEP) form. The project involved collaboration with other instructors in the…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy
Inverso, Diane; Brady, Kevin – 1999
The Administrative Leadership Institute offered a Leadership Institute, Regional Group Meetings, and online support to administrators of adult basic and literacy education programs in Pennsylvania. The program was developed following a needs assessment that gathered information from administrators in the state. The Leadership Institute, held in…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Education, Administrators, Adult Basic Education
McClintock, Shelby – 1994
This document contains the final report, trainer handbook for volunteer tutor trainers, and idea book for volunteer tutors from a project conducted to develop a supplemental tutor training program and life skills curriculum specifically for developmentally disabled (DD) adult learners. The final report describes how a group of DD adult learners…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Daily Living Skills, Developmental Disabilities
What's the Buzz, 1997
Five issues of an adult basic education newsletter were developed and disseminated to more than 4,000 adult educators in Pennsylvania. The newsletters contained information appropriate to their professional development in a format and by a delivery method that would reach the large rural area of Pennsylvania and the large number of part-time adult…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills
Werner, Evelyn C., Comp.; Harmon, Cheryl M., Comp. – 1994
This book contains 90 one-page project abstracts for adult basic education (ABE) in Pennsylvania. Each abstract contains the following information: project director's name, address and telephone number; products produced by the project; descriptors; and purpose, procedures, and summary of findings of the project. Projects are indexed by topics…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Classroom Techniques
Center for Literacy, Inc., Philadelphia, PA. – 1996
A project was undertaken to develop a model that adult basic and literacy education (ABLE) programs throughout Pennsylvania could use as a framework to develop and implement collaborative family literacy programs in cooperation with human services agencies and community-based organizations, including providers of Even Start, Head Start, and other…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Agency Cooperation, Community Organizations
Leto, Lyn – 1994
An adult basic education (ABE) class was developed to help parolees of the Schuylkill County Prison develop reading, writing, and communication skills and use those skills in a community service project aimed at helping at-risk youth. Parolees were recruited into the project through county parole officers, and their reading, writing, self-esteem,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, At Risk Persons, Basic Skills
Pennsylvania State Univ., McKeesport. – 1998
The Pennsylvania Action Research Network project was initiated in 1995-1996 to provide Pennsylvania literacy educators with the following: a better method for taking published research findings and testing and adapting them in their own classrooms; a way to study their own research ideas on a daily-action basis; and a systematic way to share and…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy
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Royce and Royce, Inc., Lancaster, PA. – 1996
The Focus on Networking project was undertaken to identify significant Adult Education Act Section 353 demonstration projects produced by Pennsylvania project directors and adult basic and literacy education (ABLE) practitioners nationwide and to publish a newsletter to disseminate information about those projects. A panel of 6 literacy experts…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Curriculum Development
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