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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED198301 AUTHOR: Hammond, Peirce; Adelman, Clifford
TITLE: Postsecondary and Adult Education: Current
Activities and Directions at the National Institute of
Education.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1980
NOTE: 30 p.
ABSTRACT: This document provides a review of the
postsecondary and adult education activities (both current
and planned) sponsored by the National Institute of
Education's (NIE) three major program units. The first
section focuses on activities of the Program on Educational
Policy and Organization, including activities of the
Postsecondary Organization and Management Studies Team,
Postsecondary Education Finance Team, Postsecondary
Desegregation research program, Legal and Governmental
Studies Team, and Vocational Education Studies Team. The
second section describes activities of the Program on
Teaching and Learning, which have three emphases: adult
learning, adult career development, and assessment of adult
development and educational programs affecting adults. In
the third section activities of the Program on
Dissemination and Improvement of Practice are discussed.
These include the Educational Resources Information Center
(ERIC) system and its sixteen clearinghouses and the
Program to Increase the Participation of Minorities and
Women in Educational Research and Development. The appendix
is an annotated bibliography of recent NIE publications on
postsecondary and adult education on these topics: general
postsecondary; non traditional postsecondary and adult
learning; postsecondary organization, management, and
finance; and women's studies. (YLB)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Adult-Development; Adult-Learning;
Affirmative-Action; Annotated-Bibliographies; Career
Development; Civil-Rights; Demonstration-Programs;
Educational-Administration; Educational-Improvement; Equal
Education; Equal-Opportunities-Jobs; Females-; Financial
Support; Minority-Groups; Program-Descriptions; Program
Evaluation; Vocational-Education
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Adult-Education;
*Educational-Development; *Educational-Research;
*Information-Dissemination; *Postsecondary-Education;
*Technical-Assistance
This is an ERIC database document. ERIC is the National
Education Information Network for providing ready access
to the literature of education -descriptions of exemplary
programs, research and development efforts, and related
information that can be used in developing more effective
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number. If EJ follows ERIC TITLE NUMBER the item is a
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