Learning and Teaching Behind Bars
While mass incarceration raises profound ethical questions, in the educational context, the unique environment of the prison creates a range of challenges.
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Adult Literacy Facts
This fact sheet highlights the issue of adult skills in the United States, where 59 million adults read at or below the lowest levels.
Annual Statistical Report
The Annual Statistical Report compiles the results of the most recent annual survey into a concise and easy to interpret visual representation of key findings.
ALE Journal – Volume 7 Issue 3
This issue of the journal includes Research, a Viewpoint article, Forum, and Research Digest about topics like enrollment barriers, student success, racial awareness, and persevering in uncertain times.
Using the Newspaper in Instruction
Using the Newspaper in Instruction is a series of videos that will show you how to use the newspaper to teach phonics and decoding skills, vocabulary, fluency, comprehension, discussion and oral language skills, writing, spelling and grammar, and critical thinking…
Social Justice Teaching in Hard Times: Lessons My Students Have Taught Me
In this essay in the Forum, the author shares three lessons the students in their GED class have taught them that are relevant to, but also extend beyond, the current national context.
The Power of the Collective: Considerations for the Field of Adult Education
In the Forum, the author shares their cultural heritage with the hope that the history of enslaved people coming together can be models of resisting, overcoming, striving, and thriving—collectively.
Rescuing and Rebuilding U.S. Adult Foundational Education: We Can and Must Do Both
This article proposes strategies that adult foundational education advocates can use to both respond to our current situation and support an overdue transition to more effective ways of doing adult foundational education.
The Case for Racial Literacy
In this Viewpoint column, the author argues that racial literacy is critical to a meaningful civic and community life.
“What We Came For”: Adult Learner Perspectives on Goals and Outcomes of Adult Foundational Education
Do U.S. adult learners really “get what they came for” in adult foundational education programs—and how do we measure the value of what they get?
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