Getting Ahead – Staying Ahead

2009
A report from the Business Roundtable on helping Americans obtain the knowledge and skills they need to compete and succeed in the global economy.

Breaking Through: Helping Low-Skilled Adults Enter and Succeed in College and Careers

2004
This study, funded by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation can be used by community college administrators, practitioners in adult education, workforce development and occupational and technical credit programs as a guide to creating and maintaining strategies that create pathways for low-skilled adults to obtain certificates and degrees.

Aiming Higher: Removing Barriers to Education, Training and Jobs for Low-Income Women

2010
This 20-page report uses statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Women’s Economic Security Campaign (WESC) programs in four areas of the United States to suggest improvements to policies that would provide low-income women with opportunities to gain the education and/or job training needed to secure family-supporting jobs.

Adult Learning in Focus: National and State-by-State Data

2008

This report provides a comprehensive look about what was known in 2008 about adult participation in education nationally and across the fifty states.

Policymakers
State Leaders

A Cross Case Analysis of Career Pathway Programs that Link Low-Skilled Adults to Family Sustaining Wage Careers

2007
This descriptive study extends what is known about career pathway programs’ curricula, instruction, supportive components and policy.

Professional Development for Experienced Teachers Working with Adult English Language Learners

2010
This brief addressed topic of professional development for experienced teachers working in the English as a second language (ESL) classroom.
Administrators and Program Managers
Professional Developers
Policymakers
Adult Educators
State Leaders