Adult Education & Literacy Resource Collection

This document summarizes the findings and implications of an extensive analysis of survey data on English learners (ELs) that was undertaken in 2015, about the demographics characteristics, education attainment, and employment and family status of ELs ages 14-21.

Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials that can be freely used and reused at no cost.

This Companion Learning resource, Preparing English Learners for Work and Career Pathways, provides teachers and administrators with instructional tools, strategies, and resources that support career-focused, contextualized English language acquisition instruction.

This video presentation by researcher and educator Heide Spruck Wrigley discusses work and career contextualized instruction for English language learners and important changes that are being made in the field.

This report summarizes research findings about the conditions and practices that support positive outcomes of technology use for underserved, under-resourced, and underprepared students.

The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University houses writing resources and instructional material, which teachers and trainers may use for in-class and out-of-class instruction.

Archive of September 14, 2016 webinar. 

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.

The brief presents an examination of the initial impact of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) on state SNAP Employment and Training (E&T) programs.

This brief strategies governors can implement to increase opportunities for high-quality, demand-driven work-based learning and prepare their citizens for the modern workforce.

This report and audio podcast discusses how college students are increasingly caught in remedial education classes.

This literatue review and analysis reports on the importance, effectiveness, and availability of support services for participants in job training programs in the United States.

A collection of classroom videos and associated lesson materials to implement the instructional shifts required by the Common Core State Standards.

This article presents the results of a survey and follow-up interviews with adult English as a Second Language (ESL) instructors to identify the writing instruction they deliver, the text types they teach, and the time they devote to writing.

This report provides the findings of an evaluation of Arkansas’s Career Pathways Initiative, which provides education and training to low-income Arkansans helping them to acquire degrees and/or certificates to obtain and hold jobs in selected high-demand and high-wage industries.

The Career Pathways Planner offers a framework for adult education state leaders to use in supporting local adult education providers in the development of a local/regional career pathways systems.

This guide helps administrators and teachers in identifying instructional domains and establishing a system of professional development for adult citizenship educators.

This two-part webinar provides stakeholders with a better understanding of the performance accountability provisions in section 116 of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) and the accompanying regulation.

Your Money, Your Goals is a set of financial empowerment materials to help people meet their financial goals by increasing their knowledge, skills, and resources.

Achievethecore.org is a Student Achievement Partners website full of content designed to help educators understand and implement the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and other college and career ready (CCR) standards  

The Adult Education Teacher Competencies are designed to identify the knowledge and skills needed by adult education teachers to improve student learning and performance.

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

The Annotated Bibliography is intended to be a resource for anyone who is interested in learning more about the research that is most relevant to the Promoting Teacher Effectiveness in Adult Education project.

The Toolkit features v​ideos and supplemental materials to help teachers write and select well-designed assessments.