Adult Education & Literacy Resource Collection

A new IES snapshot, Adult Education Strategies: Identifying and Building Evidence of Effectiveness, summarizes a systematic review of existing, rigorous research on the effectiveness of categories of adult education strategies.

This brief describes innovative, remote adult ESOL program practices and designs based on interviews with staff from 34 adult ESOL programs across the US about their use of digital technologies for onboarding, instruction, and supports to diverse ESOL learners.

This study examines teachers’ implicit biases and their correlates, largely confirming hypotheses that connect county-level teacher implicit bias to disparities in achievement and school discipline between Black and White students.

This report analyzes data on the postsecondary degree and non-degree credential attainment of first- and second-generation adults (ages 16 to 64) to explore the relationship between these credentials and adults’ economic outcomes.

Evaluation report on the Accelerating Opportunity (AO) initiative, which aimed to help adults with low basic skills earn valued occupational credentials, obtain well-paying jobs, and sustain rewarding careers.

This report describes how lifting the current ban on awarding Pell Grants to incarcerated people would benefit workers, employers, and states.

This report presents the results of a systematic examination of rigorous evaluation studies to determine what is known about the impact of career pathways on adults seeking to attain a living-wage career.

This brief describes how Adult Promise program leaders and their partners are incorporating a racial equity focus into initiatives targeting adult learners through goal setting, outreach and recruitment, financial supports, and completion strategies.

This paper discusses the concept of numeracy and the way it was operationalized in the Adult Literacy and Lifeskills (ALL) survey to develop items for numeracy assessment. The second part is the author’s suggestions for implementation of numeracy in educational settings based on his own study of numeracy in adult basic education.