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Download full textKramer, Fredrica D. – Design Brief, 2000
This publication is designed to help TANF [Temporary Assistance for Needy Families] agencies create specific program interventions to serve TANF recipients in place-based (in particular, housing-based) programs that help welfare recipients find and keep jobs. TANF programs increasingly serve welfare recipients with multiple barriers to steady…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adults, Compliance (Legal), Disadvantaged
Averitt, Sallie D. – 1993
A study was conducted to determine: (1) if instruction correlated to the Tests of Adult Basic Education (TABE) resulted in improved basic skills for participants in the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) Program; and (2) to determine the impact of selected factors on grade-level advancement (pre- versus posttest TABE scores). A literature…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills
Pennsylvania Association for Adult Continuing Education, Harrisburg, PA. – 1981
In Pennsylvania where 30 percent of the adult population is functionally illiterate and another 24 percent has only marginal competence, no state funds are appropriated for adult basic education and general educational development (ABE/GED) programs. All programs are supported by federal aid. Information shows that economic revitalization and a…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Economic Development
Jack, Robert Lee – 1969
Using a sample of 50 completers and 50 program dropouts, all Negro women, this study investigated personal and participant characteristics of 1,307 Chicago welfare recipients (largely women) who had been students in the Hilliard Adult Education Center during 1965-68. Data were gathered on age, sex, marital and family status (including legitimate…
Descriptors: Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Age Differences, Attitudes
Maryland State Dept. of Human Resources, Baltimore. – 1999
Research was conducted on the use of education services by welfare recipients in Maryland through surveying local departments of social services and using university research departments. Information was sought on the following: the number of Temporary Cash Assistance (TCA) customers engaged in educational activities, the types of activities,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Students, Community Colleges, Education Work Relationship
Smith, Janet – 1999
The 3-year Literacy, Welfare, and Work Longitudinal Research Project explored the complex relationship between literacy and employment within the context of welfare reform in Manitoba, in an attempt to identify the barriers to education and employment that adult learners experience, as well as the policies, programs, and support services that best…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Adult Students
Reuys, Steve – 1997
Conversations with seven Boston-area adult basic education (ABE) program coordinators revealed the severe adverse effects of Massachusetts' new restrictive welfare reform law on literacy education programs for the poor. The new law limits cash assistance to 2 years for most welfare recipients and requires most recipients whose youngest child is…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Compliance (Legal)
Melendez, Edwin; de Montrichard, Alexandra – 2001
The University of New Mexico (UNM) Valencia campus is a two-year college in rural Valencia County. UNM-Valencia provides vocational and general education, basic skills assistance, a community education program and a small business development program. In fall 1998, the campus had 750 full-time-equivalent (FTE) students and 807 part-time students;…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Community Colleges, Counseling Services, Economically Disadvantaged
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Accounting and Information Management Div. – 1994
A study examined states' development of automated systems for the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) program administered by the states, with the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) responsible for program oversight and direction. Results indicated that ACF had not provided direction and focus in its systems development guidance…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Employment Programs, Employment Services, Federal Programs
Reuys, Steve – 1996
The impact of recent changes in the welfare and work force development systems on adult basic education programs and their students was examined at a literacy education provider in Somerville, Massachusetts. The study found that the Student Coalition for Action in Literacy Education (SCALE) program had previously had no difficulty in attracting…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Career Centers
Imel, Susan – 1995
In the nearly 5 years since the passage of the Family Support Act, a body of research related to the convergence of welfare reform and adult basic and literacy education has begun to emerge. Much of it deals directly with the experience of providing adult basic and literacy education to Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) Program…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Education Work Relationship, Educational Benefits
Green, Anson M. – 1998
Students in the Culebra Road GED/JOBS (General Educational Development/Job Opportunities and Basic Skills) class, an adult education class for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) students, created their own website. First, students completed a computer literacy survey to gauge their computer skills. Next, students were encouraged to…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Programs, Computer Uses in Education, High School Equivalency Programs
National Center for Family Literacy, Louisville, KY. – 1997
In 1997, the National Center for Family Literacy convened four state policymakers for an audioconference to discuss five issues related to family literacy and its role as a welfare reform strategy. First, with regard to the value of family literacy, policymakers saw literacy as the key to employment and job retention. Second, family literacy was a…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Agency Cooperation, Coordination, Economically Disadvantaged
National Inst. for Literacy, Washington, DC. – 1994
With a national goal announced as "ending welfare as we know it," it is necessary to discuss questions regarding targeting, sanctions and incentives, service delivery, and success criteria for adult literacy programs that attempt to train low-literate adults for jobs. At present, there are about 14-15 million recipients of Aid to Families with…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Education Work Relationship, Educational Needs
Greenberg, Mark; Strawn, Julie – 1991
JOBS (Job Opportunities in the Business Sector) implementation faces major challenges in every state, but two issues are of particular importance in the South: the impact of low welfare benefits and the impact of low educational levels among Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) recipients. The impact of low welfare benefits shows up…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Educationally Disadvantaged, Eligibility
