How to Use adult education in a Sentence

adult education

noun
  • The university offers a popular program of adult education.
  • Will there be any adult education events to replace it in the future?
    — Cheryl Hall, Dallas News, 19 Feb. 2020
  • Hanrahan said there is great need for this money in her adult education school.
    — Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2022
  • Now is the time for Congress to secure long-term funding for adult education.
    — Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Some states have also increased their funding for adult education in recent years.
    — Annie Waldman, ProPublica, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Beukema has worked at the garden for the past five years and was its senior adult education and events manager.
    — Laura Groch, sandiegouniontribune.com, 10 May 2018
  • The center is using the building for preschool and adult education classes.
    — Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Sweden’s worst mass shooting leaves at least 11 dead at an adult education center.
    — Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 5 Feb. 2025
  • Still, that small incentive may not have been enough without a partner program to connect high schools with adult education.
    — The Hechinger Report, NOLA.com, 5 Mar. 2018
  • Classrooms and labs will be disinfected during the day, as well as prior to the adult education evening sessions.
    — Beth Mlady, cleveland, 13 July 2020
  • He was later canonized and is known as, among other things, the patron saint of adult education and journalists.
    — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Assist in the food pantry, support adult education and the senior program, or volunteer to help with special events.
    — Helen Bond, Dallas News, 26 July 2021
  • Also making the switch to virtual was the library’s many adult education and workforce programs.
    — Alexis Oatman, cleveland, 3 Aug. 2021
  • Hoping to advance to a better job, Eve enrolls in the hotel’s adult education program.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2019
  • The policy would affect access to programs such as Head Start and adult education.
    — Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 16 Aug. 2025
  • The way to get your degree started is to contact admissions offices to ask how you get started, and whom to talk to about adult education and financial aid.
    — Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2019
  • Last March, Martha Lucy had finished teaching the second of her four-week adult education class on van Gogh.
    — Regan Stephens, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2021
  • The move blindsided those working in the adult education program, many of whom began contacting school board members and reporters to protest the change.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 1 Aug. 2022
  • And others, like the office’s Head Start program and adult education classes, won’t be affected at all.
    — Austin Hornbostel, Nashville Tennessean, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The Spring Institute has youth and adult education programs aimed at immigrants.
    — Meg Wingerter, Denver Post, 14 Apr. 2025
  • The church will offer weekly worship, counseling, adult education and programming for youth and children.
    — Post-Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Witte then came to Auburn as the only faculty member in the university’s adult education program.
    — Tinasha Lewis, al, 8 Feb. 2023
  • The city’s adult education options, offered largely in charter schools and open to adults of any age, have permanently adopted hybrid learning.
    — Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 6 May 2023
  • New Girl saw Jess get laid off and fill the gaps with adult education and subbing before rising to become a vice principal and principal.
    — James Mercadante, EW.com, 6 May 2025
  • The community college offers free adult education classes for those 18 and older and not required to be enrolled in high school.
    — Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 19 June 2023
  • Clemente Course in the Humanities, an adult education program.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2021
  • The main tower of the building will house about 40 women who need stable housing and the old storefront space will be a child care and adult education center, Mitchell said.
    — Alexandra Kukulka, chicagotribune.com, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Doss runs four two-week sessions a year, each admitting about 30 students with the top scores on a basic adult education exam taken at orientation.
    — Claire Rafford, IndyStar, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Malcolm Knowles was considered one of the central figures of adult education in the twentieth century.
    — Dr. Ruth Gotian, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2022
  • English and adult education classes are geared toward the large portion of the population that speaks only Spanish, Viera said.
    — Roxanne De La Rosa, The Arizona Republic, 15 May 2022

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