Disability and Employment
The Disability and Employment Community of Practice is an online learning destination for public workforce system staff and partners, jobseekers, community-based organizations, grantees, and the business sector, who provide services and programs to people with disabilities and/or other challenges to employment. It is a “one-stop-shop” venue for workforce practitioners to find or share high quality information about how to better provide integrated, seamless, and accessible services and programs to people with disabilities and/or other challenges to employment

National College Transition Network
Integrating research into practice is an important method used by practitioners, policymakers, and researchers to improve the field of education. This section of the NCTN Web site is dedicated to disseminating emerging research from a variety of sources through a user-friendly format.

LiteracyLink: Workplace Essential Skills
LiteracyLink's goal is to provide a link for underserved and hard-to-reach adults and their teachers to quality adult basic education and GED preparation tools using technology. Combining video, the Internet, and print materials, LiteracyLink programs are relevant to the needs of the individual learner, adult instructional programs, and the workforce.

Upwardly Global
A resource for immigrant professionals and employers.

Embedding Literacy and Essential Skills in the Workplace (2013)
This report is the follow-up to a three year program aimed at embedding literacy education in the workplace. The program sought to answer such questions as, “What are the different ways of achieving embedded literacy content?” and “Are different methods a better fit for some sectors than for others?”

Using Data to Improve the Performance of Workforce Training
Louis S. Jacobson, President, New Horizons Economic Research
Robert J. LaLond, Professor, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago
This paper proposes a state-by-state solution, relying on a competitive framework to encourage states to help prospective trainees make better-informed choices. The plan will increase the return on training investments by developing the data and measures necessary to provide the information prospective trainees need, by presenting the information in user-friendly “report cards,” by providing help for prospective trainees to use the information effectively, and by creating incentives for states to implement permanent information systems once they prove cost-effective.

Improving Immigrants’ Employment Prospects through Work-Focused Language Instruction
This policy memo describes the range of policies available to improve immigrants’ economic integration through language acquisition, especially those focused on getting immigrants into jobs or moving into higher paying jobs.

Beyond Basic Skills: State Strategies to Connect Low Skilled Students to an Employer-Valued Postsecondary Education

Promoting Learner Transitions to Postsecondary Education and Work: Developing Academic Readiness Skills From the Beginning
This brief is written for practitioners—teachers, teacher educators, counselors, and program administrators—who work with adult English language learners in ESL classes at any level, and for education researchers focusing on general instruction or on instruction that promotes transitions for adult English language learners to postsecondary education and work.

Education for Adult English Language Learners in the United States: Trends, Research and Promising Practices
This paper, written by staff of the Center for Applied Linguistics, describes the adult education system in the United States — learner populations, programs serving them, assessment, professional development for practitioners, and research.

Integrating Career Awareness into the ABE and ESOL Classroom
Martha Oesch and Carol Bower
Designed to be used by teachers and counselors in ASE, ABE, ESOL, and College Transition programs this curriculum helps students understand and act on the critical link between education and careers. If your program seeks to support students to make and reach career goals, this curriculum is for you. It will not only help motivate students to keep attending a specific class, but also to persist in pursuing their education over time.

Complete College America
Complete College America’s work is supported by an extensive body of research, and this page is not intended to be an exhaustive archive of that literature.  However, as our funders and partners produce research that directly informs the core aspects of Complete College America’s work with states, this section will highlight those resources.

Buiilding Effective Green Energy Programs in Community Colleges
Maureen R. Bozell and Cynthia D. Liston
In this paper, Workforce Strategy Center (WSC) examines how community colleges leading the field in green energy education are grappling with these issues. It also makes thecase that community colleges should be substantially involved in training low-income individuals, especially the low-skilled, if in fact the goal is to help them lead self-sustaining lives. Our aim is to help community colleges across the country navigate a path forward through evolving terrain as they develop green energy education and training programs for lowincome populations. Their success will enable national and state policies incentivizing growthin the green economy to propel disadvantaged people towards family-supporting employment.

Tuning In to Local Labor Markets
Sheila Maguire, Joshua Freely, Carol Clymer, Maureen Conway and Deena Schwartz
Findings from the sectoral employment impact study.