Lifelong Learning and Education

Reports

• Bridging the Skills Gap: Why Mature Workers Matter (CAEL/Council on Competitiveness; 2009)
• Community College 2.0 (Center for American Progress; 2010)
• Adult Learning in Focus: National and State-by-State Data (CAEL; 2008)
• Pathways to Encore Careers: How 10 Community Colleges Are Preparing Boomers for Work in Education, Health Care and Social Services (MetLife Foundation/Civic Ventures; 2008)
• Mapping New Directions: Higher Education for Older Adults (American Council on Education; 2008)
• Innovation Strategies for a New System of Workforce Development and Lifelong Learning (CAEL; 2008) Changing Lives Through Lifelong Learning Accounts (CAEL; 2007)
• The Impact of Service-Learning: A Review of Current Research (Corporation for National and Community Service; 2007)
• Accountability: The Latest (and Greatest) Challenge for Online Learning? (NCHEMS; 2006)
• Building Blocks for Building Skills: An Inventory of Adult Learning Models and Innovations (CAEL; 2006)
• Encore Colleges (Civic Ventures; 2006)

News and Magazine Articles

• 8 Tips on Going Back to School (U.S. News and World Report; 2010)
• Continuing Education Can Cater to Seniors' Passions (AARP Global Network, 2010)
• Forget Tuition: How Retirees Can Attend College for Free (US News; 2009)
• Why Colleges Should Welcome the Return of the Boomers (The Chronicle of Higher Education; 2008)
• Education on the Company’s Dime (NY Times, 2010)
• States Should Create an Incentive for Lifelong Learning (Women in Government, Spring 2009)
• Lifelong Learning Accounts Legislation Introduced (Encore; 2008)
• Get a life! (Lifelong Learning Accounts that is...) (National Elder Economic Security Initiative; 2008)
• Hitting the Books, with Some Help (CFO Magazine; 2007)

Congressional Records

• S. 26: Lifelong Learning Accounts Act of 2007 (110th Congress)
• H.R. 6036: Lifelong Learning Accounts Act of 2008 (110th Congress)

Websites

• Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL)
• National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS)
• LiLAs: Lifelong Learning Accounts
• Committee on Education and Labor, Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness