Adult Education News

Kim Gooch, KET Education Staff

June 7, 2021

Workplace Essential Skills, KET’s newest online contextualized learning system, is posting excellent results from recent learner evaluations. Arroyo Research Services, a professional educational programming evaluation service based in Ashville, NC, completed a comprehensive study of the content, learning objectives and outcomes related to the Workplace Essential Skills program.

Allison NeCamp Day, KET Education Staff

June 3, 2021

COVID-19 has disrupted plans and dreams for persons all around the world. Some will remember this period of time with great disdain while others will rise from their challenges with grace and inspiration. Patrice Echols is one of the graceful inspirational ones.

Allison NeCamp Day, KET Education Staff

April 21, 2021

When Lynn Foley, an instructor with Rhode Island Regional Adult Learning (RIRAL) first encountered Josh Renaud, she knew he was not her typical adult learner. He was a former honor student and once enrolled in AP classes. He is motivated, knows how to set goals, accomplish objectives and work toward next steps consistently. She immediately knew he needed support that looked a little different than most.

Allison NeCamp Day, KET Education Staff

April 12, 2021

Workplace Essential Skills, KET’s flexible online adult education courses that allow learners to refresh basic math, language arts and soft skills contextualized to their choice of seven industries, is now offering a new Job Search component with each course.

Kim Gooch, KET Education Staff

February 21, 2021

When Covid-19 pandemic hampered her job at an assisted living community, Vanessa Stamatakos got busy and completed her GED®. She studied an average of 4 hours per day for 4 months utilizing KET’s FastForward online course and passed all 4 subjects to earn her high school equivalency credential. She is now enrolled in college full-time.

Allison NeCamp Day, KET Education Staff

February 1, 2021

Have you started to think about what life will look like in the fall of 2021 and beyond? COVID-19 vaccines are being administered to masses of Americans right now. If predictions are accurate, we should begin to see restrictions lifted even further and economic recovery slowly begin in the months ahead. What will the new normal look like?

Allison NeCamp Day, KET Education Staff

January 14, 2021

2020 will go down as a year like no other for most people. While many will talk about the challenges of halting normal routines due to a global pandemic, Heather Farley will speak of 2020 as a year when she accomplished a big goal. In November, she completed her high school equivalency credential, something she had been working toward for years.

Kim Gooch, KET Education Staff

December 10, 2020

As adult education programs transitioned to distance learning this spring, educators found that their familiar FastForward system already offered everything they needed to keep their students learning AND manage their […]

Allison NeCamp Day, KET Education Staff

November 11, 2020

KET’s Workplace Essential Skills is getting a new content addition early in 2021. The upgrade will add a job search module to each of the contextualized career fields so students can learn how to best search for jobs within specific career sectors. They will be able to create resumes and evaluate them against recommendations made within the Workplace Essential Skills courses.