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Title Workplace instruction and workforce preparation for adult immigrants	Date September 2007	Abstract 'Adult educators across the country are looking for ways to ensure that foreign-born adults will be successful in gaining Eng...
Title Workplace education: twenty state perspectives	Date Sept 4, 2007	Abstract Developed for the August 20, 2007 meeting of the National Commission on Adult Literacy, this policy brief examines current wo...
Title Expanding horizons: pacesetters in adult education for work	Date June 26, 2009	Abstract This report is an outcome of a [job and college] Readiness Roundtable sponsored by the Council for Advancement of Adult Liter...
Title Preparing the workers of today for the jobs of tomorrow	Date July 2009	Abstract This report presents a projection of potential developments in the U.S. labor market over the next five to ten years and disc...
Title Doing business together: adult education and business partnering to build a qualified workforce	Date February 2011	Abstract This report is based on two surveys and an invitational Roundtable and provides information on successful collaborations betw...
Title Return on investment (roi) from adult education and training; measuring the economic impact of a better educated and trained U.S. workforce	Date 2011	Abstract This position paper asserts that billions of dollars could be earned, saved, and pumped back into the struggling economy as a...
Title Business results through essential skills and literacy	Date 2010	Abstract This guide is directed toward business leaders who are involved in human resources and supervision of employees and who are c...
Title Whatever happened to workplace literacy?	Date 2003	Abstract This paper examines what has happened to workplace literacy programs in the United States in the period after the end of the ...
Title English that works: preparing adult English language learners for success in the workforce and community	Date 2002	Abstract This Q & A discusses efforts in adult ESL education to link language instruction to workforce and civic skills. It looks at t...
Title Preparing limited English proficient persons for the workplace	Date 2000	Abstract This digest describes cultural considerations and effective approaches for LEP individuals' work force development, including...
Title Workforce Investment Act: some implications for adult and vocational education	Date 2000	Abstract This alert looks at the implications for adult and vocational education of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA), passed in 1998...
Title Workforce Investment Act: implementation status and the integration of TANF services	Date 2000	Abstract This document is the testimony of the Director of Education, Workforce, and Income Security Issues, Health, education, and Hu...
Title Training practices for small businesses	Date 1999	Abstract The brief presents information on the training practices of small businesses. Types of training, barriers, and cost effectiv...
Title Mobile worker in the flexible workplace	Date 1999	Abstract This alert looks at the trends and issues regarding work in alternative environments such as the home. References are given...
Title New directions for cooperative education	Date 1999	Abstract This digest explores the factors helping and hindering cooperative education at this juncture in its history, examines how it...
Title Post-employment education and training models in the welfare-to-work grants program	Date 1999	Abstract This paper synthesizes information about providing education and training after an individual is employed -- one type of post...
Title Workplace education	Date 1999	Abstract The fact sheet from the U.S. Department of Education, Division of Adult Education and Literacy, defines workplace literacy a...
Title Work Force Education; Beyond Technical Skills	Date 1999	Abstract This alert reviews some of the trends in the development of the so-called "soft skills," or the skills required for organizat...
Title Integrating SCANS competencies into ESL instruction resource packet	Date 1999	Abstract This resource book provides teachers with ideas and activities for integrating into English language instruction for adults t...
Title Worker-centered learning: labor's role	Date 1999	Abstract This digest explores the labor movement's new vision for workers' education. Extensive references are given.
Title Corporate/school partnerships: learner centered or business centered	Date 1999	Abstract This publication looks at various types of partnership arrangements that business/industry and education have established and...
Title Serving welfare recipients with learning disabilities in a work first environment	Date 1998	Abstract This analysis describes the results for the adult learning disabled population of the U.S. welfare reform model which emphasi...
Title Work force education or literacy development: which road should adult education take?	Date 1998	Abstract The digest examines reviews recent literature on work force development as a goal of adult literacy. Included are the curren...
Title Task analysis strategies and practices	Date 1997	Abstract The brief presents information on current practices and examples of the various types of task analyses, highlighting their st...
Title Skill standards; job analysis profiles are just the beginning	Date 1997	Abstract The alert summarizes the trend toward use of skills standards to align the education system with the emerging, high performan...
Title Welfare reform: three states' approaches show promise of increasing work participation	Date 1997	Abstract This report reviews the experiences of three states--Idaho, Massachusetts, and Michigan--with increasing the participation of...
Title Workplace Literacy (1)	Date 1996	Abstract The fact sheet from the U.S. Department of Education, Division of Adult Education and Literacy, defines workplace literacy a...
Title Union-sponsored workplace ESL instruction	Date 1996	Abstract This digest explores the history of union-sponsored workplace ESL instruction; discusses some models for program delivery; an...
Title Selling workplace ESL instructional programs	Date 1995	Abstract This digest explores the issue of why companies do and do not provide workplace basic skills and ESL instruction. It reports...
Title Workplace literacy: its role in high performance organizations	Date 1995	Abstract The digest describes the relationship between collaborative approaches to workplace literacy and high performance work organi...
Title Welfare to work: the role of adult basic and literacy education	Date 1995	Abstract The brief reviews some of the research findings regarding the link of adult basic and literacy education to welfare reform. ...
Title Evaluating workplace ESL instructional programs	Date 1995	Abstract This digest examines evaluation measures and activities used in workplace programs, and discusses issues associated with the ...
Title Workplace literacy: trends in the literature	Date 1995	Abstract This ""trends and issues alert" summarizes the trends in the literature and issues around the phenomenon of workplace literac...
Title New ways of learning in the workplace	Date 1995	Abstract The digest addresses some of the new ways to learn at work, such as action learning, situated learning, and incidental learni...
Title SCANS and the new vocationalism	Date 1995	Abstract The digest examines whether and how the SCANS (Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills) report has influenced ed...
Title Workplace ESL instruction: varieties and constraints	Date 1993	Abstract This digest describes some of the existing programs to prepare adults for the workplace or to help workers already on the job...
Title Workplace literacy: lessons from practice	Date 1993	Abstract The Digest gives an overview of the status of workplace literacy in reference to the second objective of the fifth national e...
Title Changing work force	Date 1993	Abstract This ""trends and issues alert" summarizes the issues around the changing work force in the United States. Print resources a...
Title Teaching the SCANS competencies	Date 1993	Abstract The Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) studied changes in the world of work and implications of tho...
Title Learning a living: a blueprint for high performance: a SCANS report for America 2000	Date 1992	Abstract This document is Part 1 of a final report of the Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) and is a follow...
Title SCANS Blueprint for action: building community coalitions	Date 1992	Abstract This document is Part II of a final report of the Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) and is a follo...
Title Beyond training: a field test of the American Society for Training and Development's Workplace Basics, executive summary	Date 1992	Abstract This is the executive summary of a booklet summarizes a field test done of the Workplace Basics training package supported by...
Title Workplace literacy: an update	Date 1992	Abstract This ""trends and issues alert" summarizes the issues around the phenomenon of workplace literacy. Print resources and resou...
Title Workplace literacy and people with disabilities: shifting the focus to the employer	Date 1992	Abstract In the past, literacy training for persons with disabilities has focused on skills needed to succeed in the workplace, with a...
Title How do you know if it's working? Evaluating the effectiveness of workplace literacy programs	Date 1992	Abstract In the workplace, literacy programs are viewed as components of "training," and as such needs to be evaluated differently fro...
Title Legal considerations concerning literacy testing in the workplace	Date 1992	Abstract The paper reviews the legal background regarding testing of various types in the workplace. Covered are provisions of the Ci...
Title Assessing workplace performance problems: a checklist	Date 1992	Abstract This digest looks at questions used in business training departments to assess the nature and relative importance of worker p...
Title R.O.A.D. to success	Date 1991	Abstract R.O.A.D. to Success is a workplace literacy program designed to help drivers who have trouble reading the Commercial Driver's...
Title Closing the skills gap; impact of a workplace literacy program	Date 1991	Abstract This report describes the features and results of an innovative workplace learning collaboration between Motorola Inc. and Me...
Title Learner-centered worker education program	Date 1991	Abstract This digest a describes a writing based, learner-centered program developed by The Hastings Institute, a non-profit corporati...