TABLE OF CONTENTS
RAYMOND G. EBERHARD
RESTRICTIONS, LITERARY RIGHTS, QUOTATIONS
PREFACE
INTERVIEW HISTORY
INTERVIEWS December 7 and 13, 1995
[Tape 1, Side A]
Characteristics of a successful adult educator — Overview of adult education
system in state — Background and initial employment — Transition into adult
education — Orientation and training for adult education — The 1970's, a period
of extraordinary growth — Growth caps — Funding and the separate revenue limit
— Networking — Professional organizations
[Tape 1, Side B]
Bob Rupert — Proposition 13 — Community service programs — Transition to the
Department of Education — A new Adult Education Unit team — Roles and duties
within the Adult Education Unit — State and federal funds — Leveraging federal
funds — CBAE mandate — Two national and state literacy surveys
[Tape 2, Side A]
High Risk Youth Unit and SB 65 — National Dropout Prevention Network — Aspen
Institute — Adult education as a recovery system — Don McCune and Xavier Del
Buono — Return to Adult Education Unit — Two strategic planning projects —
Separate adult education fund — Five percent programs — Model standards —
Start—up schools — Reform legislation
[Tape 2, Side B]
Reform legislation continued: increasing access, concurrent enrollment,
revised funding — Litigation — Technology projects — Learning Networks — Adult
Education Unit reorganizations — Consultants and their training — Developing
policy — Adult Education Unit and the Department — Categorical programs and
sunset legislation
[Tape 3, Side A]
Adult Education Unit and the Department (continued) — Field input: maintaining
lines of communication — Role of professional organizations — Different roles
of Unit and local agencies — Governance — Summary of major funding changes —
Public policy initiatives: immigration and vocational training — Impact of
changes in federal funding — Strengths of California adult education — National
contributions
[Tape 3, Side B]
Weaknesses of California adult education— Predictions — Key driving forces of
adult education in state — Rewards of work in adult education
INDEX
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION