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Collison, Michele N-K – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1988
The School of New Resources of the College of New Rochelle received Rockefeller Foundation and federal grants to improve the teaching of adult students. Campuses are located in the boroughs and classes are taught on the assumption that adult experiences are valuable and can be used to help teach other students. (MLW)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Adult Students, Campuses
McMillen, Liz – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1988
Jo Anne Keyes, who has struggled to go to college as an adult, has established a one-person foundation and collected over $40,000 in cash and $75,000 worth of books to help other adult students get an education. (MSE)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Students, College Students, Fund Raising
Download full textLytle, Susan L. – Focus on Basics, 1988
Dependence on standardized tests in adult literacy programs derives partly from their relative ease of adminstration and their appearance of providing valid and reliable quantitative data for program evaluation. Few adult educators are satisfied with the quality of the information, and most are extremely dissatisfied with the effects of such…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Adult Students
