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Download full textBlake H. Heller; Kirsten Slungaard Mumma – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
In 2000, federally funded public adult education programs provided basic skills training and English language instruction to over 2.6 million students, or about 1.5% of the U.S. adult population. By 2021, enrollment had plummeted to under 900,000, or less than 0.4% of adults. What explains these declines? This policy brief describes the evolution…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Basic Skills, English Learners, Enrollment Rate
Direct linkRoumell, Elizabeth Anne; Salajan, Florin D.; Todoran, Corina – Educational Policy, 2020
In the United States, adult and workforce education (AE) seems to be located, simultaneously, both everywhere and nowhere in particular. Ongoing shifts in national economic demands and changes in requirements for training and education have brought learning in the adult years into the federal public policy arena. Sometimes referred to as lifelong…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Adult Education, Educational History, Policy Formation
Peer reviewedLipsitz, Joan Scheff – High School Journal, 1980
The author focuses on some of the research needs for early adolescents (ages 10 to 15). It highlights areas in which federal policy concerns intersect with developmental research, and discusses six areas: social equity, basic skills, school discipline, parent participation, and school effectiveness. (Author/KC)
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Age Differences, Basic Skills
Grasso, Rena – 1990
This manual represents the viewpoint, experience, and principles and practices that guide positive and effective programs for women at the Career and Life Counseling Center at Bergen Tech (New Jersey). Chapter I provides an overview and history of women's educational and economic issues. Chapter II addresses the social and economic consequences of…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Adult Counseling, Adult Programs
Imel, Susan – 2003
Workplace literacy was the focus of attention during the era of the National Workplace Literacy Program (NWLP), funded by the U.S. Department of Education from 1988-1996. Since then, it has not disappeared, in part because recent legislation such as the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) and Welfare Reform Act has increased the work-related focus of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Economic Development
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1982
This congressional report contains testimony given in relation to the passage of the Vocational and Adult Education Consolidation Act (S. 2325). (The Vocational and Adult Education Consolidation Act is legislation designed to consolidate existing federal vocational and adult education programs, to simplify requirements for states and other…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Basic Skills, Block Grants, Educational Finance
