| Back to school or back to jail? Fighting illiteracy to reduce recidivism |
1993 |
This is a reprint of a journal article describing the literacy programs in correctional institutions in the United State...
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| Back to school: a guide to continuing your education after prison |
2007 |
This planning guide contains information for inmates headed for release on earning a General Education Development crede...
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| Baseline study: education in county jails |
1990 |
This research report on educational programs in California county jails was prepared to provide a factual basis for unde...
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| Building jobs, rebuilding lives; placing ex-offenders with employers in the residential and light commercial construction industry |
1999 |
This manual provides a method of facilitating ex-offender employment. The concept includes two parts - viewing inmates...
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| California Department of Corrections statewide literacy plan |
1998 |
This plan responds to the federal Prison Literacy Act and mandates a standardized approach for implementing literacy ins...
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| Community-based correctional education |
2011 |
The report presents information from fifteen community-based education programs in ten states-from charter schools to te...
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| Correctional education: selected aspects |
1986 |
Correctional education is a generic term describing a wide range of educational activities that take place in institutio...
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| Creating a vision in correctional education |
1990 |
The article discusses the importance of vision, as a function of strategic planning, to educational programs in the corr...
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| Current issues in correctional education |
February 25, 2004 |
This document summarizes conversations and interviews with leaders in correctional and adult education, addressing publi...
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| English language instruction for incarcerated youth |
2003 |
This digest discusses the issues and challenges in providing English language instruction to Latino and other linguistic...
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| Literacy behind bars: results from the 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy Prison Survey |
May 2007 |
Published by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), "Literacy Behind Bars" is the report of the 2003 Natio...
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| Pell Grants for prisoners |
1993 |
This article describes in interesting detail the history related to inmate eligibility for Pell Grant higher education a...
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| Prison literacy programs |
1995 |
The Digest sets the context of prison literacy programs, outlines some of the constraints, and describes what factors wo...
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| Reentry education model |
2012 |
This report outlines a correctional education reentry model illustrating an education continuum to bridge to support ind...
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| Solving security problems through education |
1991 |
This article describes how the inmate education program at one of the Los Angeles County Jail's is meeting the needs of ...
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| Success stories: life skills through literature |
1997 |
This publication is an introduction to the theory and practice of using literature to teach life skills to persons who a...
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| Teaching the hard-to-reach: working with releasees and probationers |
[1986] |
This handbook is designed to assist adult educators in providing continued adult education services to releasees and pro...
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| Timing is essential to the success of correctional education |
1989 |
The article makes the case that reaching the incarcerated individual at the right moment in his educational life-span is...
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| Vocational education in corrections |
1990 |
The alert summarizes issues related to vocational education for individuals confined to corrections institutions. Annot...
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