TITLE

Ideas offered for adult literacy programs

PUB. DATE

October 1993

SOURCE

Reading Today;Oct/Nov93, Vol. 11 Issue 2, p21

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Announces the availability of Project Lifelong Learning's video and print materials that identify key strategies for helping adults develop their literacy and learning skills. Pennsylvania State University's Institute for the Study of Adult Literacy's government-funded effort; Contents of materials; Availability of `Research Background for Project Lifelong Learning: Five Strategies for Achieving National Education Goal 5' monograph; Contact information.

ACCESSION #

9402172725

Tags: FUNCTIONAL literacy;  EDUCATIONAL literature

 

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