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Helping Adults Persist: Four Supports, John Comings, Andrea Parrella, Lisa Soricone
Helping Adults Persist: Four Supports, John Comings, Andrea Parrella, Lisa Soricone
John P. Comings
The National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL) is conducting a study on learner persistence. The first phase of NCSALL's study used research as a tool to develop advice for practitioners on how to help adults persist in their studies. In addition, the study developed advice for policymakers on how to structure funding and accountability systems in ways that will support persistence. The next phase of the study will test and refine this advice in programs. In the first phase of this research, the study team read previous studies and related literature, and talked with practitioners …
So I Made Up My Mind: Introducing A Study Of Adult Learner Persistence In Library Literacy Programs, John Comings, Sondra Cuban
So I Made Up My Mind: Introducing A Study Of Adult Learner Persistence In Library Literacy Programs, John Comings, Sondra Cuban
John P. Comings
This publication is the first of several planned reports for the Literacy in Libraries across America (LILAA) initiative, a four-year study that will explore the efforts of five leading public library-based literacy programs to improve learner persistence through a variety of programmatic, operational, and support service strategies. The five libraries participating in the study are: New York Public Library; Greensboro Public Library (North Carolina); Redwood City Public Library (California); Queens Borough Public Library (New York); and Oakland Public Library (California). An overview of the current status of library literacy programs is presented, and the following program strategies that the libraries …
New Skills For A New Economy: Adult Education's Key Role In Sustainin Economic Growth And Expanding Opportunity, John Comings, Andrew Sum, Johan Uvin
New Skills For A New Economy: Adult Education's Key Role In Sustainin Economic Growth And Expanding Opportunity, John Comings, Andrew Sum, Johan Uvin
John P. Comings
The role of adult education in sustaining economic growth and expanding opportunity in Massachusetts was explored. The analysis focused on the new basic skills needed for a new economy, groups lacking the new basic skills, the demand for adult basic education (ABE), funding for ABE, building basic skills through adult education, ABE's costs and benefits, and moving toward an integrated job training and ABE system. The following major challenges to building workers' skills were identified: (1) a language challenge; (2) an education credential challenge; and (3) a new literacy challenge. The following were among the recommendations offered for overcoming these …