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Knox, Alan B. – Adult Education, 1975
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Education, Clearinghouses, Delivery Systems
Peer reviewedKratage, Marian; Reitz, Larry – Community Education Journal, 1979
The Clearinghouse complements the network of community education development centers, state offices, and state associations in its primary role of serving the information needs of community educators and interested citizens. (Author)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Clearinghouses, Community Education, Community Schools
Download full textWerner, Evelyn – 1992
The School Library Media Services Division of the Pennsylvania Department of Education administered the operation of AdvancE as Pennsylvania's adult education clearinghouse. The goal of the project was to provide Pennsylvania's adult educators with prompt access to information and resources to help them implement the most effective administrative…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Clearinghouses
Peer reviewedMerriam, Sharan – Lifelong Learning: The Adult Years, 1979
Describes the Colonial Junto organized by Benjamin Franklin in 1727 as a discussion club to debate politics, morals, and natural philosophy, and the later American Philosophical Society which extended (and continues) the subject knowledge. The present-day Junto Center for Continuing Education in Philadelphia is an adult education information…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Clearinghouses, Group Discussion
Imel, Susan – 1991
In 1966, Congress approved the first adult education act, and the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) system was established. Monies to support adult education research and delivery systems became available at the same time as a mechanism was put in place to collect and disseminate results of these activities. The Adult Education Act…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Clearinghouses, Databases
Hall, William – 1988
The Technical and Further Education (TAFE) National Centre for Research and Development is a national education research and development organization. The center was established in June 1980 as a company limited by guarantee, and its members are the ministers responsible for TAFE in all of Australia's states and territories and in the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Clearinghouses, Conferences, Consultation Programs
PDF pending restorationHammond, Peirce – 1979
Questions and issues about research on postsecondary education currently being considered at the National Institute of Education (NIE), NIE's major interests from previous years, and the evolving organization of NIE as it pertains to postsecondary research and development are examined. Over the six year period from funding year 1975 through…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Adult Education, Black Colleges, Clearinghouses
Mills, Phyllis D., Comp.; Hartshorn, Marcella, Comp. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1938
This publication supplements the first printed index of pamphlet material. It adds several hundred new titles, lists many publishers submitting their materials for the first time, and lists the numbers of pamphlets in Bulletin 1937, No. 3, which are no longer available. It is hoped that as the directors and organizers of forums and discussion…
Descriptors: Educational History, Indexes, Pamphlets, Publishing Industry
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1984
This Congressional report presents and examines the Adult Education Act Amendments of 1984. The Adult Education Act Amendments of 1984 are designed to amend the Adult Education Act in order to simplify requirements for States and other recipients participating in Federal adult education programs and also to amend certain stipulations of the act…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Advisory Committees, American Indian Education
Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1937
Last May the Office of Education organized a list of pamphlet material under the title "Public Affairs Pamphlets." While this tabulation was prepared primarily to meet the needs of the 10 public forum demonstrations then organizing programs of public discussion, it was widely used by libraries, forums of all kinds, social science teachers and…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Public Schools, Adult Education, Federal Aid
National Inst. of Corrections (Dept. of Justice/LEAA), Washington, DC. – 2000
During fiscal year 1999, the Office of Correctional Job Training and Placement (OCJTP) conducted numerous activities related to its primary functions, which are as follows: (1) coordinate federal departments' and agencies' efforts related to correctional job training and placement; (2) provide training to develop staff competencies needed by state…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Agency Cooperation, Agency Role
