Return-Path: <nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id i2SKoIm25452; Sun, 28 Mar 2004 15:50:18 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 15:50:18 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <472289A8.5608F672.0AB94E44@aol.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: AndresMuro@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-FOBASICS:1000] Re: research assistance X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Mailer: Atlas Mailer 2.0 Status: O Content-Length: 1550 Lines: 20 It is sunday, i am home, and kind of lazy. I'll answer about the US. there is a website for the NALS. National adult Literacy survey, i think. I have the website in my office. If you ask the question tomorrow, I'll post the website. It'll tell you the estimated educational levels of adults. Mind that people are not classified as literate vs illiterate. they are classified along a continum from less to more skills within 5 levels. the first two levels imply not having sufficient skills to fully participate in all aspects of family, education vocation and community life, or something to that extent. There are approximately 90 million adults scoring in the two lowest levels. If you go to the government website, it'll tell you the allocation for adult basic education funding for the current year. If you divide that amount by 90 million, you'll get the dolar amount that is alocated per adult that may need aditional literacy skills. A few years ago I think that I had estimated the allocation at about $250 per adult per year, vs. K-12s allocation of about 3,000 per child (I think). Andres In a message dated 3/28/2004 3:17:51 PM Eastern Standard Time, michael g kadlubowski <mgkski@juno.com> writes: >can anyone provide me with a solid reliable reference for the total >number of illiterates in both the world as well as in the usa, as well as >the amount of funding spent on literacy programs in both the world and >the usa. > >Sincerely, >Michael G. Kadlubowski >mgkski@juno.com > -- go here: www.geocities.com/andresmuro/art.html
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