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Latham, Eleanor E. – 1980
This evaluation research report describes a program originally implemented to meet the needs of English dominant Hispanic students in an urban junior high school. The report combines qualitative and quantitative data in order to provide an understanding of the relationship of program goals, implementation procedures, and effects and delineates…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, Hispanic Americans, Individualized Instruction
Sperazi, Laura; Astrein, Bruce – 1988
Site visits to 17 workplace education projects funded in the second year of the Massachusetts Workplace Education Initiative are reported for year 1 and year 2 projects. The year one projects are as follows: EASCO Handtool Company (Springfield), T.J. Maxx Distribution Center (Worcester), laundry workers (Boston/Lynn), AT&T (Lawrence), and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Business
Astrein, Bruce; And Others – 1987
Seven workplace education projects funded in the first year of the Massachusetts Workplace Education Initiative are reported. This report includes both general observations and specific information in case studies of the projects. Overall information is provided on students served, the importance of partnerships, the emphasis on…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Business
Massachusetts State Dept. of Education, Boston. Bureau of Research and Assessment. – 1983
This report summarizes evaluation information on reading, writing, and mathematics achievement among elementary and secondary school students in 310 school districts in Massachusetts, after the second year of implementation of the Basic Skills Improvement Policy. The report describes data collection, analysis, and reporting procedures, summarizes…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Blacks, Comparative Analysis
Rayman, Paula; And Others – 1990
An evaluation of the Massachusetts Workplace Education Initiative brings together three phases: (1) a pilot outcome study conducted with a sample of six local workplace education programs and featuring the perspectives of workers, labor, and management; (2) program profiles for seven federally funded workplace education programs coordinated by the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Age Differences
Download full textComings, John; Sum, Andrew; Uvin, Johan – 2000
The role of adult education in sustaining economic growth and expanding opportunity in Massachusetts was explored. The analysis focused on the new basic skills needed for a new economy, groups lacking the new basic skills, the demand for adult basic education (ABE), funding for ABE, building basic skills through adult education, ABE's costs and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy
