Career
Pathways Programming for Lower-Skilled Adults and Immigrants: Report on Survey
Findings
Esther
Prins, Carol Clymer, Blaire Willson
Toso
Institute for the Study of Adult Literacy, Pennsylvania State University
Our
initial aim is to examine the role of adult education programs as a gateway
to career pathway transitions and outcomes for lower-skilled adults and
immigrants. The 2-year study will explore how adult education providers
in three cities integrate career pathway components, and interact with
workforce development and postsecondary systems, to enable these adults to
access career pathways. The project will identify outcomes, promising
practices, and practices in development so that peer agencies can better share
knowledge to shape effective practices and policy.
Why focus
on adult career pathways?
The National Center for
Education Statistics estimates that 93 million adults function below the high
school level in reading and math. Because many of these learners have low
incomes and struggle to enter higher education or obtain living-wage jobs,
career pathways are a prevalent strategy to help them access employment and
postsecondary education. The career pathways concept has been jointly
endorsed by the federal Departments of
Education, Labor, and Health and Human Services and figures prominently in the
2014 reauthorization of the Workforce
Innovation and Opportunity Act that funds adult education and
literacy instruction. READ MORE @
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