Adult Basic Education: Strategies to Increase Returns on Investment (ROI) (1999)
Authors: Thomas G. Sticht
Drawing upon a variety of studies, the author argues that adult literacy program can increase their ROI by developing 'programs that maximize the intergenerational transfer of educational benefits from parents to children, and functional-context education programs [that] integrate basic skills instruction with job and parenting skills training'.
Keywords:
- Basic literacy
- Family
- Family literacy
- Integrated instruction
- Literacy
- Literacy job relationships
- Literacy poverty relationships
- Parental literacy
- Parent child relationships
- Thematic approach
- Women
- Women's literacy
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