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Preparing Low Income Women for Today's Workplace: A Case Study on the Evolution of a Communications Model within a Job Training Program.

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Baird, Irene C.; Towns, Kathryn – 1991

PROBE (Potential Reentry Opportunities in Business and Education), a program conducted in Harrisburg and Lebanon, Pennsylvania, incorporated technological training with effective communication skills preparation for single female welfare parents. Goals of the program were to provide 20 single-parent welfare women with marketable computer and…

Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Communication Skills, Computer Science Education, Displaced Homemakers

How Some Low Income Women View Learning as They Prepare for the Work Force: A Comparative Case Study.

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Baird, Irene C. – 1991

Four African-American women, participants in PROBE (Potential Reentry Opportunities in Business and Education), a program to prepare low-income women in Pennsylvania for jobs through computer and communications skills training, were interviewed about their attitudes toward learning. The four were single-parent welfare recipients in their late 20s…

Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Students, Blacks, Communication Skills