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Tyneisha Sider Hamilton – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Nationally, retaining students in adult basic education (ABE) is an ongoing challenge for numerous programs. The problem is the low retention rates among adult basic education learners in a non-profit ABE program in a large metropolitan city in Georgia. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to explore how persistence affects student…
Descriptors: Nonprofit Organizations, Adult Basic Education, Academic Persistence, School Holding Power
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Sun Jung Joo; Alice Chik; Emilia Djonov – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The increasing influx into Australia of (im)migrants whose first language is not English has made Australia linguistically more diverse than ever. Despite this, Australia remains a strongly Anglocentric nation, and migrants, in response, tend to abandon their heritage languages (HL) and shift to English relatively quickly. Korean migrants in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Korean, Native Language, Parent Child Relationship
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Caroline Barratt-Pugh; Susan Hill; Nicola F. Johnson; Lennie Barblett; Alia Parker – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
Texting-based programs are increasingly used to support parents as their child's first teacher and create links between home and school. However, there is scant evidence about the influence of program implementation on parent uptake and attrition--a key component of such programs. This article describes the design and delivery of Kindytxt, a…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Parent Participation, Kindergarten