National Coalition for Literacy and Open Door Collective Colleagues, I have today talked with John Comings about the research that the National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL), sponsored by World Education and Harvard University, did that might be useful for Mathematica to know about. He suggests the following: Three papers NCSALL did on ABE research: Comings, John and Lisa Soricone, Adult Literacy Research: Opportunities and Challenges, Cambridge: NCSALL, 2007.http://www.ncsall.net/fileadmin/resources/research/op_opps_challenges.pdf <http://www.ncsall.net/fileadmin/resources/research/op_opps_challenges.pdf> Comings, John, Maricel Santos, and Lisa Soricone, An Evidence-based Model for Adult Education Suitable for Research, Cambridge: NCSALL, 2006. http://www.ncsall.net/fileadmin/resources/research/op_comings4.pdf <http://www.ncsall.net/fileadmin/resources/research/op_comings4.pdf> Comings, John, Establishing an Evidence-based Adult Education System, NCSALL Occasional Paper, Cambridge, MA: NCSALL, 2003. http://www.ncsall.net/fileadmin/resources/research/op_comings3.pdf <http://www.ncsall.net/fileadmin/resources/research/op_comings3.pdf> An attached copy of a 2007 COABE journal article in which John has recommendations for establishing a new National adult basic skills education research and development center All the best, David David J. Rosen djrosen123@gmail.com