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The Changing Fabric Of Adult Basic Education In Kansas, Jeff Zacharakis
The Changing Fabric Of Adult Basic Education In Kansas, Jeff Zacharakis
Educational Considerations
Globalization is changing the demographic fabric of a world in which people are not only mobilizing in search of jobs and economic opportunity but so are technology and capital mobilizing in search of cheap labor.
Wichita: A Diverse Adult Basic Education Program In An Urban Center, Margaret Harris
Wichita: A Diverse Adult Basic Education Program In An Urban Center, Margaret Harris
Educational Considerations
Wichita, incorporated in 1870 as a village, is the largest city in Kansas. It is the county seat of Sedgwick County, located at the junction of the Arkansas Rivers in south central Kansas. Westward expansion and financial rewards attracted the first White settlers to the area in the 1850s and 1860s looking to profit from hunting and trapping wildlife and to trade with the native American population, the Wichita Indians, who had moved north from Oklahoma and built a permanent settlement in 1863.