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Mendel, Richard A. – 1988
This study of work force illiteracy in the southern region of the United States reached the following five conclusions: (1) the problem is concentrated more among high school dropouts than among grade school dropouts who never learned to read; (2) the South risks creating a permanent, massive pool of undereducated citizens unable to support…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Communication Skills, Dropouts
Download full textHopkins, Margaret; And Others – 1995
The Goodwill Literacy Initiative evaluated its services during the 1994-95 program year. This time frame was chosen because several program enhancements were implemented that reflect the literacy initiative's mission to combine adult basic education with work force development. Three developments were aimed at student retention: a formal…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Career Exploration
Bean, Rita M.; And Others – 1989
A study of why adult literacy students stopped attending beginning reading tutorial programs was conducted at nine sites that were part of the Pittsburgh Literacy Initiative. A total of 192 adults were identified as having discontinued their reading programs, all of which were one-on-one tutorial programs. The reading level of these dropouts had…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Dropout Characteristics
Literacy across the Curriculum, 1992
The first of four issues in this volume consists of these articles: "The Fourth 'R'--Relating"; "On Baseball Cards and Literacy"; "On Literacy and Success"; "National Assessments: What They Can and Cannot Do"; and "In the Classroom: The Integrated Journal." It also contains two book reviews and a…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Dropout Prevention, Dropouts
Perin, Dolores; Greenberg, Daphne – 1992
A study examined a unique workplace literacy program designed for college preparation. Factors related to retention were studied in a group of paraprofessional health care workers who were attending the program as a step toward career advancement. The 153 participants were mainly women of minority backgrounds who spoke English fluently but not…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Allied Health Occupations
Kalman, Judy; Fraser, Kay Losey – 1992
This paper is a description of a union-sponsored workplace literacy program conducted in a large metropolitan hospital. The section following the introduction presents the research methodology, including data collection and data analysis procedures. The section entitled "The Making of a Workplace Literacy Program" looks at the planning stages of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Adult Students
Kaestle, Carl F.; Campbell, Anne; Finn, Jeremy D.; Johnson, Sylvia T.; Mikulecky, Larry J. – 2001
Based on the National Adult Literacy Survey of 1992, which described the literacy skills of adults in the United States (based on data drawn from a random sample of 13,600 adults across the United States, and from telephone interviews with additional adults and from other sources, with a total of 26,000 adult participants), this report contains…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Literacy, Competence, Demography
