Future is a six-level, standards-based English language course for adult and young adult students. Future provides students with the contextualized academic language, strategies, and critical thinking skills needed for success in workplace, life, and academic settings. Future is aligned with the requirements of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), the English Language Proficiency (ELP), and College and Career Readiness (CCR) Standards and the National Reporting System (NRS) level descriptors. The 21st century curriculum in Future's second edition helps students acquire the basic literacy, language, and employability skills needed to meet the requirements set by the standards. Future develops students' academic and critical thinking, digital literacy and numeracy, workplace and civics skills, and prepares them for taking standardized tests. Competency and skills incorporating standards are in the curriculum at every level, providing a foundation for academic rigor, research-based teaching strategies, corpus-informed language, and the best of digital tools.