[PDF] Adult Basic Education In Washington Community Colleges eBook

Author : Alisa Belzer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 17,82 MB
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 1135601321

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This volume revisits, problematizes, and expands the meaning of quality in the context of adult basic education. Covering a wide range of relevant topics, it includes contributors from the realms of both policy and practice and encompasses both the major instructional areas-reading, writing, and mathematics-as well as larger issues of literacy, learning, and adulthood. Each chapter focuses on what improving quality in the field might look like through the particular lens of the author's work. As a whole, the broad scope of topics and ideas addressed will raise the level of discussion, knowledge, and practice regarding quality in adult basic education. In this book, the term adult basic education refers to the broad range of services for adults who wish to improve their literacy and language skills, including beginning and intermediate writing, writing and numeracy, preGED, GED/Adult Secondary Education, and ESL instruction that takes place in a range of contexts including schools, community-based programs, and workplace development programs. The volume is organized around three themes: *Accountability, Standards, and the Use of Documentation and Research; *Program Structures and Instruction; and *Rethinking Our Assumptions and Concepts. Coming at a time of increasing pressure to standardize, to be accountable, and to improve outcomes, and when calls for evidence-based practice are fueling stakeholders' interest in the relationship between research and practice at all levels of the system, Toward Defining and Improving Quality in Adult Basic Education is particularly timely for scholars, graduate students, and professionals in the field of adult basic education.

Author : Washington (State). State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
Publisher :
Page : 2 pages
File Size : 36,99 MB
Release : 2015
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This brief describes the Basic Education for Adults (BEdA) programs that bridge the gap between school and work, thereby creating pathways to college and careers for Washington's emerging workforce. BEdA programs teach foundational skills--reading, writing, math, technology and English language--so adults can move through college and into high-demand jobs. Programs are designed to advance students quickly and purposefully toward degrees and certificates. Strategies move the goal line from passing the GEDʼ, to graduating from college and starting careers. The programs offer a life-changing opportunity for adults to succeed as students, employees, parents and citizens.