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Melissa Lent – Center for an Urban Future, 2024
Nearly one-quarter (23 percent) of all degree-seeking undergraduate students at the City University of New York (CUNY) are adult learners--students over the age of 25. These students are juggling an outsized share of family and work responsibilities compared to the traditional 18-year-old freshman. They are much more likely to be among the 31…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Family School Relationship, Paying for College
Rodriguez, Aldo – ProQuest LLC, 2018
In Uruguay, one constant concern for policy makers, authorities, teachers and administrators is student retention. Among adult learners who have returned to secondary school, dropping out of school is an even larger problem. However, there are several students that in spite of their problems and barriers continue studying and return to school.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Academic Persistence
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Aksoy, Afra Nur; Aksu, Meral – Journal of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, 2020
The purpose of this study was to make the teachers in a particular private night high school participate in a School Based Professional Development program for their needs in educational technologies and adult learning theory so that the effectiveness of teachers in Private Night High Schools could improve. This was a case study including…
Descriptors: Adult Educators, Andragogy, High Schools, Private Schools