Table of Contents

Robert E. Ehlers

RESTRICTIONS, LITERARY RIGHTS, QUOTATIONS

PREFACE

INTERVIEW HISTORY

INTERVIEW, 1995

[Tape 1, Side A]

Background — Establishment of continuation schools — First state consultant in continuation education — Other Department of Education assignments — Transitionto adult education — The Adult Education Unit — Federal Adult Education Act —Federal special projects — Project dissemination — Competency—based adult education — Leadership in the Unit

[Tape 1, Side B]

Leadership (continued)— Strategic plans for adult and alternative education —Quality indicators for alternative programs — Professional ethic — Changesthrough the years — Part—time staff — Administrative staffing — Multipleassignments — Individualized learning — Uniqueness of local programs — Modelschool program in continuation education — Five per cent innovative funding —Relationships between field and the Adult Education Unit — Policy development and interpretation — Days immediately following passage of Proposition 13 —Reflections on career

INDEX

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION