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~1.2m IL adults have less than a HS ed. IL Comm College Bd progs served ~82K last year. http://bit.ly/1qsXmo0 Need more $ for #AdultEdu

"Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey"

Educational Attainment in the United States: 2015

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"The National Career Clusters® Framework provides a vital structure for organizing and delivering quality CTE programs through learning and comprehensive programs of study. In total, there are 16 Career Clusters in the National Career Clusters Framework, representing more than 79 Career Pathways to help students navigate their way to greater success in college and career. As an organizing tool for curriculum design and instruction, Career Clusters provide the essential knowledge and skills for the 16 Career Clusters and their Career Pathways. It also functions as a useful guide in developing programs of study bridging secondary and postsecondary curriculum and for creating individual student plans of study for a complete range of career options. As such, it helps students discover their interests and their passions, and empowers them to choose the educational pathway that can lead to success in high school, college and career."

"If you ask us, one of the most promising things happening in philanthropy right now when it comes to fostering more economic opportunity, is the intensifying focus on closing the big mismatch in America between jobs and skills. "

Contextualization: Creating Career-Infused Classrooms Biden to Obama

"The College and Career Readiness Standards (CCR) for Adult Education report presents a set of college and career readiness standards that reflect the content most relevant to preparing adult students for success in colleges, technical training programs, work and citizenship-in the areas of English language arts/literacy and mathematics."

"Bridge programs are a 21st-century idea for helping prepare low-skilled individuals for jobs that require more education. Known by many names-integrated education and training, contextualized learning, embedded skills-bridge programs assist students in obtaining academic, employability, and technical skills they need to enter and succeed in postsecondary education and training and the labor market. BridgeConnect is a national survey designed to help determine the depth and breadth of bridge programs throughout the country. Quantifying the number and types of programs in operation can help policymakers and funders improve both policy and practice related to adult education. A critical mass of bridge programs may suggest the approach is ready for rigorous evaluation; that an effort to formally identify standard of excellence is warranted; or that it is time to identify strategies for scaling up the most effective programs."

Broadband access and implications for efforts to address equity gaps in postsecondary attainment

"CCE's Quality Performance Assessment (QPA) is new generation of processes and tools that leverage assessment as an essential tool of equitable learning and teaching. The QPA framework guides educators in creating meaningful and complex learning experiences in the classroom, preparing graduates for college, career, and beyond. "

Karwai Pun is an interaction designer currently working on Service Optimisation to make existing and new services better for our users. Karwai is part of an accessibility group at Home Office Digital, leading on autism, and has created these dos and don'ts posters as a way of approaching accessibility from a design perspective.

Omits designing for 100% visually impaired. According to my son, adequate tech support is even more of a problem.

be sure to scroll down to "What the posters say" for HTML lists for the dos and don'ts of designing for users with accessibility needs including autism, blindness, low vision, deaf or hard of hearing, mobility and dyslexia