This web site serves as a central guide for education data resources including high-value data sets, data visualization tools, resources for the classroom, applications created from open data and more. These datasets have been gathered from various agencies to provide detailed information on the state of education on all levels, from cradle to career and beyond. Check back frequently because the site will be updated as more datasets and tools become available. Click here for Education Data and Tools.
About this Site
This site contains adult literacy facts and information for Virginia's adult education and literacy programs, although many links are national in scope.-
Recent Posts
- Workplace Readiness: Can It Lead to Better Employment and Earnings for Low-Income Adults?
- “More Unprepared Than We Thought: Adult educational attainment,” an SREB Fact Sheet
- 2017 KIDS COUNT Data Book: State Trends in Child Well-Being By the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s KIDS COUNT Project
- Incarceration to Reentry: Education & Training Pathways in Ohio
- Critiquing Adult Participation in Education (CAPE)
- Adult Education Attainment and Assessment Scores: A Cross-National Comparison
- 2018 Funding for WIOA programs
- Virginia 2016 & 2017 Census Estimates
- Department of Labor: Watch and Learn Videos
- Degree and Nondegree Credentials Held by Labor Force Participants
- Strategic Leverage: Use of State and Local Laws to Enforce Labor Standards in Immigrant-Dense Occupations
- Nonemployer Statistics–An Indicator of Virginia’s “Gig Economy”
- Adding Up The Low Costs of Literacy Among Adults
- ALICE: Looking up financial insecurity region by region in Virginia & 14 other states
- Statistics about women in the labor force
Demographic Information
- 2013 Population Estimates for Virginia, its counties & its cities
- American Fact Finder, U.S. Census
- City-Data for Virginia: type a zipcode in the search bar on top of the map and obtain demographic statistics specific to that area.
- City-Data, Video on how to use the site
- Fast Facts from NCES
- U.S. Census Bureau
- U.S. Census: American Community Survey: Data, Tables, and Tools
- Weldon Cooper Center: Demographics
Grants and Funding Resources
Information for Correctional Education
- Correctional Education: OCTAE
- Literacy Behind Bars: 2003 PDF Survey Report (published 2007)
- Moving Men Into the Mainstream, 2007, Manhattan Institute article
- National Criminal Justice Reference Service
- Preparing for Life Beyond prison Walls: The Literacy of Incarcerated Adults Near Release, 2009
- Prison Education Reduces Recidivism, Prison Education.com, 2011-2017
- Re-Entry Education Model, 2012, US Department of Education
- Re-Entry Education Tool Kit, LINCS
- The Effects of Prison Education Programs, Journalist's Resource, 2014, Harvard Kennedy School
- Transition from Prison into Community (TPC): National Institute of Corrections, US Department of Justice
- Virginia Department of Corrections Facts and Figures
Information for Virginia
- American Fact Finder, U.S. Census
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Virginia
- Census Virginia Quick Facts
- City-Data for Virginia: type a zipcode in the search bar on top of the map and obtain demographic statistics specific to that area.
- Community Profiles from YesVirginia.org
- Community Profiles: Virginia Employment Commission, Labor Market Information
- Dollar Value of Volunteer Time, Independent Sector
- Educational Attainment, VA Counties and Cities, 2016 American Community Survey
- Elevate Virginia
- Labor Market Information, Virginia.gov
- Population Estimates
- Poverty and Economic Security
- Poverty in Virginia: Virginia Performs
- Refugee Resettlement Reports
- The Rural Virginia Horseshoe Initiative
- U.S. Census: American Community Survey: Data, Tables, and Tools
- VAACE
- Virginia Career View
- Virginia Employment Commission
- Virginia Jobs
- Virginia Workforce Connection
- Virginia’s Not So Hidden Secret: The Adult Literacy Crisis
Learning Disability
Literacy Program Director Information
National Literacy Information
- Adult Education & Literacy Facts & Figures from OCTAE
- Adult Literacy Development and Economic Growth: 2010 LINCS
- America's Foreign Born in the Last 50 Years, U.S. Census
- American Fact Finder, U.S. Census
- Educational Attainment 18+ in the U.S. 2017
- Fast Facts from NCES
- Half in Ten Poverty Indicators by Congressional District
- Hiding in Plain Sight: The Adult Literacy Crisis, Valerie Strauss, WP, 2016
- LINCS: Information and Communication System
- Literacy Project Foundation
- National Reporting System: Fast Facts
- NCSDAE: National Council of State Directors of Adult Education
- ProLiteracy Adult Literacy Fact Sheets
- Stateline: State Policy and Politics Updated Daily
- U.S. Census: American Community Survey: Data, Tables, and Tools
- Why Read? Reason #8. America, We Have a Literacy Problem. June 10, 2015, Paul Heavenridge, LiteracyWorks
- World Bank Data: United States
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Disclaimer
This blog is made available by the Virginia Adult Learning Resource Center (VALRC) for informational purposes only and to provide links to sites that lead to statistics and information about adult education and literacy. VALRC does not endorse or recommend any products, processes, or services mentioned in the linked websites and blog posts published on this site. The views and opinions authors expressed in the links on this blog do not necessarily state or reflect those of the VALRC or the Virginia Department of Education.
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