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Download full textGallagher, Penelope – 1991
From April 1990 through September 1991, the Rural Workplace Literacy Project (RWLP) provided migrant and seasonal farm workers from 15 agricultural worksites in California with literacy training. The training, designed to develop reading and job skills, involved 282 enrolled farm workers and 109 nonenrolled class attendants. Of the 13 classes…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Agricultural Laborers, Employer Employee Relationship, Job Skills
ASPBAE Courier, 1985
The articles in this issue are mainly concerned with how to reach the poorest and most disadvantaged sections of the population and how best to help once contact has been made. "Nijera Kori in Retrospect: In Search of an Organization of the Rural Poor" (Mohiuddin Ahmad) provides extracts from an evaluation of this grassroots,…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Community Action, Developing Nations, Economically Disadvantaged
Quickel, Rosemary L.; Wise, James E. – 1982
The Horry County, South Carolina, Reading Crusade, a joint effort of the Literacy Council and the school district, was begun in 1979-80 with the intent of raising the literacy level of adults. The school district's Adult and Community Education Department provided office space, telephones, lab space, salaries, and mileage for the coordinators. The…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Community Resources
Smith, G.A. – 1970
A full-time literacy course was held during August and September, 1969, in the Chiduku Tribal Trust Land (Rhodesia). The purpose was to assess the feasibility of teaching illiterate adults the 85 lessons of the primer in an intensive course and to see if it was then possible to teach them how to keep simple farm and household records and accounts…
Descriptors: Acceleration, Adoption (Ideas), Adult Literacy, Arithmetic
California Human Development Corp. – 1991
The California Human Development Corporation's Rural Workplace Literacy Project (RWLP) provided migrant and seasonal farmworkers with on-site workplace literacy training designed to enhance their ability to develop job skills. During 1990-91, it provided literacy classes at 15 agricultural worksites and enrolled 282 farmworkers. Of students…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Illiteracy, Job Skills
Barker, Sue; Burns, Kathryn; Bowers, Jana; Pruitt, Jeanni; Pate, Sally – 1998
The Northeast Texas Adult Education Rural Education Workplace Literacy Program, which is a partnership between Northeast Texas Community College and area businesses, offers workplace literacy instruction designed around job-specific basic skills. Training is offered in the following: applied workplace technology; applied math skills; measurements…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Community Colleges, Curriculum
