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Declining Enrollment in Federally-Funded Adult Education: Critical Questions for the Field
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Pickard, Amy – Adult Literacy Education, 2022
This essay describes the decline in the number of participants enrolled in federally-funded adult basic education (ABE), adult secondary education (ASE), and adult English Language (EL) programs. Enrollment data since 1965 indicate a steep and consistent downward trend in the number of adults enrolling in these programs since the 1990s.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Basic Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning