resources

Adult Education is Losing Its Backbone: Teachers (COABE Journal: The Resource for Adult Education, Volume 14, Issue 1, 2025)

Where are the teachers?  Adult Education Workers Explain the “Teacher Shortage” (WAVE, Literacy Works, 2024)

It Starts and Ends with the Funders: More Insights into Turnover in Adult Education in Illinois (WAVE, Literacy Works, 2023)

A revolving door of professionals: Investigating High Turnover in Adult Education in Illinois (WAVE, Literacy Works, 2022)

Chicago's Rohingya Culture Center Rethinkings Adult Education (September 2025)

Chicago adult education programs in limbo as Trump administration withholds funding (July 2025)

Turnover in Adult Education: Root Causes from Educator Voices  Spring 2023, IACEA Conference

Ask Why July: Why are we required to ask for social security numbers now? Summer 2024, virtual webinar

ICCB's FY25-28 Funding Requirements

How to send postcards to ICCB

Generation: What's it all about? 

Why are Social Security Numbers so Important Now?

“I love what I do, but I don’t stay for the pay.” Perspectives from Over 600 Adult Educators (ALL IN, 2025)

The Future of Adult Education: Enhancing Economic Growth Through Wage Equity (ProLiteracy, 2025)

Building Provider Capacity: A Snapshot of Investment in Adult Education Teachers (ALL IN, 2024)

Literacy & Justice: A Call for Transformative Action (Literacy Assistance Center, 2020)

Read about you can start your own transparency project! 

Wage Transparency Project  (information + survey)

Wage Transparency in Adult Education (survey results)