Workplace Education

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