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Millions of adults need access to postsecondary education and training to advance their careers
and support their families.
National Necessity
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Accelerating Opportunity transforms Adult Basic Education to ensure that more adults can access
and succeed in postsecondary education and training.
Innovative Solutions
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States and colleges will scale and sustain programs so that many more
adults have access to marketable credentials and family-sustaining careers
Lasting Impact
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By 2018, only 36 percent of total jobs will require workers with just a high school diploma or less
Since 1979, investments in adult education and workforce development programs have declined in real terms by more than 70%.
Postsecondary credentials are the gateway to family-supporting wages that those credentials are critical to breaking the intergenerational transmission of poverty in America.
93 million adults with basic or below basic literacy
13% of adults ages 25-64 have less than a high school credential
29% have a high school credential but no college.
A National Need for Pathways from ABE to Marketable
Credentials
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No High School
Diploma
Speak English “Less Than Very
Well”
High School DiplomaNo College
18,229,340
5,005,943
5,177,127
51,365,340
8,226,214
Adult Education Population (Age 18–64), 2006Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2006 American Community Survey (Public Use Microdata Samples); prepared by National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS). Unduplicated population = 88,003,964.
From Reach Higher, AmericaThe Report of the National Commission on Adult Literacy (2008)
88 Million Adults Have at Least One Education
Barrier
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Programs lack supports and are ill-equipped to meet the needs of non-
traditional students
The “black hole” of developmental education:
Low completion rates for underprepared students
Remediation not customized to career pathway
requirements
Lack of alignment with career/technical credential programs postsecondary entrance requirements
Traditional ABE/GED Programs
Developmental Education
Postsecondary Career
Programs
Multiple Loss PointsLow rates of program completion and credential attainment
Disconnected Educational Pathways
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Accelerating Opportunity’s Solutions
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• Accelerated skill-building integrated with credit coursework
• Support through gate-keeper courses
• Intensive transition counseling
• Comprehensive supplemental services
• Intensive counseling
• Flexible program options
• Job placement
More Adult Learners Succeeding in ABE to Credential Pathways
Articulated Career Pathways
Stackable Credentials with
Labor Market Value
Accelerated and Integrated ABE and GED programs
• Career exploration
• Contextualized learning
• Skill-building for postsecondary/career success
• College and career counseling
Streamlined Adult Education Pathways
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Improving Student Experiences and Outcomes
What low-skilled, non-traditional students typically face:
Emerging Solutions:
Confusing array of career programs Integrated instructional models, college prep & career pathways
General education focus as the default for programs and services
Programs and services specifically geared to career pathways
Long remedial education sequences Acceleration, compression and dual-enrollment strategies
Inadequate or inaccessible support services
Array of support services, including intrusive advising
Programs not designed with career advancement in mind
Programs designed around labor market opportunities and needs