Dr. Clymer, Co-Director of the Institute for the Study of Adult Literacy/Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy, Penn State University has over 45 years of experience implementing and evaluating programs to improve the education and employment prospects of adult learners and their families. She has participated in the design and implementation of professional development projects and large-scale evaluations and outcomes studies related to adult education, family literacy, performance benchmarking, employment retention, sectoral employment, out-of-school youth, college access.