Please note:
- ABE instruction refers to Adult Basic Education and is reading/writing/math instruction at the lower levels. ASE (Adult Secondary Education) instruction refers to ABE instruction at the higher levels and is commonly referred to as GED prep. ESL instruction refers to English as a Second Language targeted towards non-English speakers.
- The upstate regions such as Capital North (Albany area), Central Southern Tier (Syracuse area), Finger Lakes (Rochester area) and West (Buffalo area) have programs offering more ABE than ESL instruction. The downstate programs in Hudson Valley (Yonkers area), Long Island and New York City (all 5 boroughs) offer much more ESL than ABE or ASE instruction.
- The relative size of the student populations is reflected in the height of the bar charts.
The actual numbers are in the table below:
Posted May 8th, 2012
Venu, This is great! I look forward to following your blog. I'd be interested in seeing how the patterns of instruction have shifted over time - especially within ABE. For example, are we serving the same number (or percentage) of lower level readers as we were ten or twenty years ago?
ReplyDeleteThanks, John. I am so new at this that I didn't think to read the comments. I will definitely keep your suggestion in mind.
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