Bøger af Edward E. Gordon

A pervasive disconnect exists between the job/career culture and the present economic reality in America. This book offers powerful strategies for stemming the employment crisis and proposes comprehensive solutions for businesses, government, and job seekers alike.

This unique book offers readers a complete review of past, present, and future adult literacy programs. They will obtain a clear understanding of how to organize a multi-level, cost-justified Work Force Education program that meets America's 21st century international productivity requirements.

This guide gives teachers specific instructional methods to help students raise their skills and critical thinking abilities and provides step-by-step guidance in designing a tutoring program, training the tutors, and conducting meaningful assessment and evaluation.

A comprehensive history of how American people achieved varying degrees of literacy from early colonial times to the modern era. By focusing on people rather than statistics, the study explores the many literary agents, methods and materials used at different times and places in American history.

Ed Gordon marshals a vast amount of data to illustrate how various trends are converging to create a labor vacuum-with potentially disastrous consequences for economic competitiveness and individual opportunity.

The authors present their workplace training program of research as well as a mastery learning model. By presenting ideas from instructional psychology, cognitive science, mastery learning, and performance based assessments, and then relating these findings to the workplace, the authors offer a new way to look at learning in the workplace.

The authors offer proven skills, training, and educational applications that develop individual employee thinking for total quality management, ISO 9000, or other quality-team business programs.

Shows how to increase productivity and profits by making investments in human capital development. This book addresses the disparity between the available jobs and available workers. It defines the race between advanced technology investment and human resources investment and shows managers how to measure that investment.