Adult Education & Literacy Resource Collection

This study investigated whether five web-based instructional programs increased the capacity of adult basic education (ABE) programs to provide efficient and effective leaning opportunities to adult students.

This paper examines how to best provide teachers with the time, support, and space to learn how to use new technological tools and resources effectively.

This guide is designed to help a wide array of professionals better understand how and when to use group learning activities to intentionally support and facilitate continuous learning through reflection and dialogue.

A free Open Educational Resource (OER) designed to assist teachers, content creators, Web developers, and others in creating adaptable and personalizable educational resources that can accommodate a diversity of learning styles and individual needs.

This paper describes the characteristics of American workers employed in key service-sector industries who lack foundational skills, highlights promising practices and interventions to help them upskill, and details key federal and state policy levers that foster economic mobility.

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 review discusses four online articles that provide essential background and useful instructional approaches for teaching digital literacy and digital problem solving in adult basic education classrooms and beyond.

A targeted resource for adult learners interested in exploring the wide range of entry-level career opportunities in health care.

This companion to Health Careers: A Guide to Finding Entry-Level Jobs in Health Care includes teaching suggestions, lessons and activities that will help instructors increase student knowledge about health careers.

This resource offers guidelines to help teachers choose a financial literacy curriculum for their classroom.

This policy brief summarizes Integrated Education and Training (IET), which is a combination of education and job skills training that is used to transition adult learners beyond adult basic education and through a career pathway that can offer them job training and eventual gainful employment.

Results of a national survey of adult education providers to learn more about Integrated Education and Training (IET) models, funding mechanisms, and partnerships across the country.

This guide profiles an array of integrated education and training (IET) programs providing inspiration, models, and lessons for adult educators as they plan or strengthen their own IET programs.

This module introduces the English Language Proficiency Standards for Adult Education and provides an understanding of why and how the standards were selected and how they are organized.

This report details 14 "Building Blocks" of a comprehensive, community-based adult literacy program, identifies the resources needed to fully implement the Building Blocks, and includes an operating budget for a local program implementing this model.

A special issue of the Journal of Research and Practice for Adult Literacy, Secondary and Basic Education devoted to numeracy.

A repository of standards-based units and lessons created by Kentucky Adult Education instructors.

A free online resource for intermediate and advanced adult learners of English and basic skills

This study circle is a professional learning activity for teachers of low-literacy adult ESL students.

Money Smart for Older Adults is an instructor-led training developed to teach older adults and caregivers of older adults about elder financial exploitation and why they may be at risk.

A searchable database of over 7,000 local literacy programs and GED testing centers across the country.

CareerOneStop added more career videos and added newly-emerging careers related to the 16 career clusters.

This report describe the methods that were used by Los Angeles Trade-Technical College (LATTC) and the University of Southern California's Center for Urban Education (CIE) to build the Pathways to Academic, Career, and Transfer Success (PACTS) initiative, which created career academic pathways for students.

The National Education Technology Plan (NETP), updated in 2017, sets a national vision and plan for learning enabled by technology through building on the work of leading education researchers; district, school, and higher education leaders; classroom teachers; developers; entrepreneurs; and nonprofit organizations. 

Reimagining the Role of Technology in Higher Education aligns the role of technology serving the needs of a diverse group of students seeking access to high-quality postsecondary learning experiences.