Adult Education & Literacy Resource Collection

This guide provides content and progress standards for the Pre-Interview, Interview and Test, and Post-Interview phases of the naturalization process.

Inside Mathematics provides a resource for educators (teachers and administrators) who strive to provide the best mathematics instruction they can for their students. 

A survey of all 50 states and the District of Columbia found that eighteen states have adopted at least one form of integrated education and training policy.

This companion learning resource, Integrating Digital Literacy into English Language Instruction, provides numerous examples of instructional models, strategies, tools, and tasks for integrating digital literacy into English language acquisition instruction.

The Journal of Research and Practice for Adult Literacy, Secondary, and Basic Education provides a forum for sharing research, information, theory, commentary, and practical experiences that will improve the quality of services for adult basic education, literacy, and numeracy learners.

This issue features articles focused on the ways that research can affect policy and practice.

Loot, Inc. is a resource for teaching financial literacy and a virtual community of practice for teachers. 

This Companion Learning Resource, Meeting the Language Needs of Today’s Adult English Language Learner, presents numerous examples of instructional models, strategies, tools, and tasks for increasing the rigor of adult English language instruction.

Newsela builds reading comprehension through leveled articles, real-time assessments, and actionable insights.  

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.