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The LINCS Professional Development Center provides technical assistance to states’ adult education professional development systems to meet requirements under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA); offers high-quality, evidence-based instructional resources through the LINCS Resource Collection; and facilitates professional development training opportunities for adult educators. This project is in partnership with Manhattan Strategy Group.
Many immigrants who want to study English can't. Funding for adult education classes is limited, so programs that offer English as a second language (ESL) classes are often full and can’t always offer seats to all who need one. Many programs have anywhere from 60 to 600 adults on a waiting list for English classes…
World Education, Inc. continues to guide the pilot implementation of mentoring programs in a subset of the Graduation and Outcomes for Success for Out-of-School Youth's (GOSOSY) Consortium’s 17 member states, utilizing, adapting, and customizing the mentoring model framework and resources from the Mentoring Toolkit. The year-one pilot states include Massachusetts, North Carolina, Nebraska, and Tennessee….
Each day 1,500-2,000 individuals leave Nepal for labor migration. The majority of migrants are young men who have dropped out of school; however, there is a small but increasing number of women who also migrate for foreign employment. Migration brings with it the promise of better jobs and salaries, but also the risk of abuse…
In Ghana, according to the WHO, over 13,000 deaths occur each year as a result of exposure to household air pollution (HAP) or indoor air pollution (IAP) and more than 21 million people are impacted by exposure to HAP each year. To address Ghana's long-standing energy challenge and build on new opportunities for transforming the…
Women in Tanzania suffer alarming rates of intimate partner violence that has detrimental effects on mental and physical health including an increased risk of HIV infection. Approximately one half (52.3% of male respondents and 58.3% of female respondents) in a 2011 study thought it was acceptable for a husband to beat his wife under certain…
There are an estimated 1.6 million Zimbabweans living with HIV, over 150,000 of whom are children below 15 years old. Mother-to-child transmission accounts for virtually all new HIV infections among infants in Zimbabwe, with children becoming HIV-positive from their mothers during pregnancy, birth, or breastfeeding. In order to stimulate demand for and improve access to…
In February 2015, World Education received funding from USAID to implement the Kann Let Program Victim Assistance and Disability Project in Kayah State. This project successfully worked with 83 landmine survivors, persons with disabilities (PWDs) and their family members to increase household income and economic opportunities, to promote access to services and to increase civil…
In Cambodia, many youth migrate in search of work opportunities. When traveling from rural provinces to urban areas and overseas, Cambodia youth face many challenges, including: a limited social network, poor understanding of available resources, higher cost of living, potential exploitation, limited knowledge of their rights under Cambodian labor law, limited ability to manage money,…
Conflict in Myanmar (Burma) over the past three decades has resulted in a mass movement of populations into Thailand. Nearly 130,000 refugees live in nine camps along the Thailand-Myanmar border, with children making up half the camp population. While the school system in camps is relatively well-established, teaching in refugee schools is a challenging profession:…
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