Adult Education & Literacy Resource Collection

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.

This reader contains nine original stories written specifically for adults at the beginner to grade 1.5 reading level.

Written specifically for adults, this beginning-level reader contains eight chapters about Langston Hughes' family history and personal life.

This reader contains nine original stories written specifically for adults reading at the 3 to 4.5 grade level equivalent (GLE).

This reader contains nine original stories about human rights written specifically for adults who read at the grade 4.5 to 6 reading level.

Beginning Alphabetics Tests and Tools (BATT) strives to provide a ‘principled’ system for ABE/ESL teachers who want and/or need to develop their students’ knowledge of Roman alphabet letters, English letter-sound patterns, sight or high frequency words, and transfer of those lettersound-word skills to text fluency and comprehension.

This report covers efforts to institutionalize, sustain, and scale Adult Education Bridge Programs in three states: Illinois, Minnesota, and Wisconsin.

This revised Career Pathways Toolkit: A Guide for System Development features Six Key Elements of Career Pathways that help to guide local and state teams through the essential components necessary for developing a comprehensive career pathways system. 

This report summarizes responses to a request for information about career pathways systems, including respondent-identified facilitators and barriers to career pathways development and implementation as well as promising practices.