Adult Education & Literacy Resource Collection

Persistent barriers to accessing high-quality, affordable postsecondary education remain for currently and formerly incarcerated individuals. This guide was developed by the U.S.

This guide summarizes considerations, tools, and examples that can be used by state and facility administrators and instructors as they develop and implement IET programs in jails and prisons.

This resource explores the technical, instructional, and other components necessary for expanding the use of technology in correctional education programs.

This Guide is designed for people who are incarcerated and for those on community supervision (probation and parole) to help them get started—or continue—on the path to further education and training.

This compendium describes nine innovative practices with a holistic approach to adult education services as selected by the Advancing Innovation in Adult Education project.

This themed edition of the COABE Journal highlights educational programs, approaches, and professionals who work with adults currently serving or who have served time in correctional settings.

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

This podcast explores digital equity and why it is considered by many to be the civil right for our time.

The ESOL Tutor Resource Pack includes resources for English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) tutors to use with learners who are in prison or who have had recent experience with the criminal justice system. 

This guide helps organizations better understand the central role that basic skills and related educational credentials play in successful reentry of formerly incarcerated individuals.

This paper presents eight policy recommendations aimed at addressing a projected shortfall in the number of American workers available to fill jobs that require a postsecondary degree or credential.

This report presents an approach for reentry education providers to develop an education continuum that strengthens their services and bridges the gap between facility- and community-based programs.

This collection of guidelines, tools and resources is designed to help education providers and their partners create a reentry education continuum for formerly incarcerated adults.

This dissertation examines the experiences of 20 offenders involved in correctional education programs through the lens of post-incarceration employment.  

Examination of digital literacy acquisition learning experiences designed to prepare prisoners for re-entry (a case study)

This report describes the current status of educational technology in corrections, existing and emerging approaches to providing such services in facilities, and the successes and challenges of early implementers.

This research is aimed towards the development of a European key competency profile for the adult learning professionals working in correctional criminal justice system, based on key competences for adult learning professionals, national researches in partner countries conducted on relevant stakeholders and European analysis of available materials on topic developed in other LLP initiatives.

This report examines the implementation of the Reentry Education Model at three demonstration sites and identifies key lessons for linking correctional and reentry education programs.

This report presents a summary of the findings from an earlier literature review and meta-analysis on the effectiveness of correctional education programs for incarcerated adults, as well as a systematic review of correctional education programs for juveniles and the results of a national survey of state correctional education directors, which provide an up-to-date picture of what the field of correctional education looks like today in the United States and explores the use of computer technology, preparations for the new 2014 GED exam, and the impact of the 2008 recession.

This directory has been created to help correctional educators enhance existing or create new parenting programs in their correctional facilities.

Juvenile correctional facilities have successfully used technology to broaden the scope of education programming.

Incarcerated persons may be able to use Web-enabled resources to assist them in preparing for post-release success.

This article explores how art in its many forms can be used in correctional education. 

This report explores the connection between correctional education a reduction in postrelease recidivism.

The correctional education reentry model illustrating an education continuum to bridge the gap between prison and education and training programs.