Adult Education & Literacy Resource Collection

This guide provides a roadmap to building career pathways systems at the state level.

Also available in Spanish: http://energy.gov/eere/energia

This curriculum provides activities and materials for integrating ESL education and community-based tasks. 

This study explores English-as-a-second-language (ESL) classrooms as a site for health literacy interventions.

From College to Careers: Fostering Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in STEM is the product of a collaborative project initiated to examine current issues and explore future directions for improving the academic success and career entry rate of postsecondary students with disabilities (SWDs) in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. 

This guide provides suggested classroom tasks that combine the academic knowledge and skills described by the College and Career Readiness Standards for Adult Education with behaviors and composite skills needed to succeed in college, workplace, and civic life (essential competencies).

This handbook helps state leaders improve the odds of generating sustained organizational support for standards-based reforms.

This training focused on how to transition students, classrooms and teaching staff towardsthe new GED. The training provides specific tips and examples to bring more critical thinking skills into classrooms of all levels. Academy of Hope’s condensed manual on the new GED, examples of organizers, and other helpful material is included with the training.

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 course offers a detailed look at the mathematics section of the GED^® test.

This course offers a detailed look at the language arts section of the GED^® test.

The collection introduces instructors of adult literacy, basic education, and GED^® classes to the College and Career Readiness Standards (CCRS).

The paper contains recommendations that will move the field toward a competency-based system and a call to action regarding the importance of better aligning teacher preparation and development with student Deeper Learning goals.

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

ReadWorks is a non-profit organization which gives teachers the research-proven tools and support they need to improve the academic achievement of their students

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 newsletter examines stackable credentials, a buzzword in career pathways. 

This resource provided by the State of Washington helps practitioners better understand career pathways programs and expand practioners’ professional knowledge.

This is an English learner's guide to health care and healthy living. 

Staying Healthy for Beginners is a curriculum that seeks to enhance students' understanding of health information, while at the same time improving their English language and literacy skills. The resource is a beginner’s addition to the original Staying Healthy: An English Learner’s Guide to Health Care and Healthy Living. 

This report uses a unique database from the labor market information company Burning Glass and other sources to analyze the skill requirements and the advertisement duration time for millions of job openings.

These phonics-related stories, lesson plans, and related tests and exercises are intended for adults who are beginning readers.

This tool gives practitioners insight into helping students with disabilities learn math. 

This paper briefly describes constructive developmental theories of adulthood, implications for academic language and critical thinking, and outlines developmentally scaffolded learning activities.