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Laboring To Learn: Women's Literacy And Poverty In The Post-Welfare Era., Lorna Rivera
Laboring To Learn: Women's Literacy And Poverty In The Post-Welfare Era., Lorna Rivera
Lorna Rivera
The American adult education system has become an alternative for school dropouts, with some state welfare policies requiring teen mothers and women without high school diplomas to participate in adult education programs to receive aid. Currently, low-income women of color are more likely to be enrolled in the lowest levels of adult basic education. Very little has been published about women's experiences in these mandatory programs and whether the programs reproduce the conditions that forced women to drop out in the first place.
Lorna Rivera bridges the gap with this important study, the product of ten years' active ethnographic research …