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Download full textCerna, Oscar – MDRC, 2019
Community colleges continue to increase their efforts to better serve students who enter their institutions with limited basic math, reading, or writing skills. In 2015, MDRC partnered with the Texas Coordinating Higher Education Board on a study to examine how colleges implemented state guidelines for students scoring below ninth-grade…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Basic Skills, Skill Development, Mathematics Instruction
Direct linkMoore, Elizabeth; Oppenheim, Emma – National Council of La Raza, 2010
Adult education services, including education for those lacking basic literacy and numeracy, preparation for the high school equivalency diploma, and English-as-a-second-language courses, play a crucial role in bridging the basic skills gap for Latinos and other workers with limited formal education and training. With recent policy and program…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Basic Skills, Adult Programs, Profiles
Texas Coll. and Univ. System, Austin. Coordinating Board. – 1970
Ten community colleges in Texas sent participants to a faculty and administrators' conference, whose purpose was to discuss all points covering basic-studies programs and to see where consensus and differences of opinion existed among the people who actually operate those programs. This transcript of the conference covers the following topics: (1)…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Conference Reports, Developmental Programs, Educational Testing
Texas State Higher Education Coordinating Board, Austin. Div. of Community and Technical Colleges. – 2002
This report aims to address concerns regarding the need for developmental education in mathematics in the higher education institutions in Texas. Fifty-three million dollars of the $93 million appropriated for developmental education in Texas in 2002 went to mathematics. About 40% of new students in two-year colleges and 20% of new students in…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Costs, Labor Force Development
Thompson, O. Eugene – 1971
The Basic Skills CVAE programs was a four-year experimental program initiated in 1961, the purpose of which was to retain potential dropouts from junior and senior high school by providing an adjusted basic course of study which would assist them in overcoming academic deficiencies and provide occupational orientation and skill development…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Basic Skills, Curriculum Development, Dropout Prevention
Texas State Board of Education, Austin. – 1985
Twenty-three Texas school districts conducted state-funded pilot projects in 1982 and 1983 to determine whether summer school programs could successfully remediate the needs of students who were retained in grade or had failed a required course, who were functioning greatly below their peers in skill attainment, or who were identified as having…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Basic Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Expenditure per Student
Williams, Harold, Ed. – 1992
This conference provided a forum for presenting research findings to educators and other audiences interested in marketing education. The following papers were presented: "Turnover of Marketing Education Teacher-Coordinators in Secondary Programs" (Allen); "An Empirical Investigation of Marketing Education Completers"…
Descriptors: Accounting, Basic Skills, Beginning Teachers, Cognitive Style
