{"title":"The Lessons of the Churn: Adult Basic Education and Disciplining the Adult Learner","authors":"Erik Jacobson","doi":"10.35847/ejacobson.2.2.4","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Each year in the United States, hundreds of thousands of people enroll in adult basic education (ABE) classes but leave before completing a level or accomplishing their goals. The persistence of this phenomenon may indicate that it is a feature of the system, rather than an unforeseen outcome. Research on other types of social service provision (e.g","PeriodicalId":306023,"journal":{"name":"Adult Literacy Education: The International Journal of Literacy, Language, and Numeracy","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Adult Literacy Education: The International Journal of Literacy, Language, and Numeracy","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.35847/ejacobson.2.2.4","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Each year in the United States, hundreds of thousands of people enroll in adult basic education (ABE) classes but leave before completing a level or accomplishing their goals. The persistence of this phenomenon may indicate that it is a feature of the system, rather than an unforeseen outcome. Research on other types of social service provision (e.g