More than 30 million Americans over the age of 25 – or one out of every 10 U.S. citizens – do not have a high school diploma. In Alaska, according to the Coalition on Adult Basic Education (COABE), ...

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ProLiteracy, the largest adult literacy and basic education nonprofit organization in the nation, has partnered with BenchPrep, the comprehensive learner success platform ...

Not too long ago, Santa Ana College instructor Susan Gaer found herself in class describing the steps required to obtain a passport. Her students – mostly English Language Learners of varying ages – ...

JACKSON — Former famed attorney Richard "Dickie" Scruggs says he found purpose in prison by helping educate his fellow inmates. In federal prisons, any inmate without a high-school equivalency diploma ...

WILLMAR - For 24 of Willmar Adult Basic Education’s 25-year existence, Jim Nicholson has worked to make it a welcoming environment. He was always trying to change students’ negative views of school ...

Two adult learners who came through Holyoke Community College's adult basic education programs were honored at the State House on Thursday, May 17, 2012 as Outstanding Students of the Year by the ...

Inside the Academy of Hope, an adult public charter school in Washington, D.C., is a morning class of adults taking turns reading. The academy — which provides free programs to D.C. residents over the ...

MANKATO — When Styx Rivers was 9, her parents took her out of school “for reasons unknown to me.” Now 21 years old, Rivers decided finishing her education was important to her and she got her General ...

For Asma Abdulmohsin, it was the next step. As she sees it, her graduation Tuesday from the English as a Second Language program at Spokane Community College only leads to more. “I will help my family ...