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Join us for a LIVE webcast of a new release from the National Center
for Education Statistics - A First Look at the Literacy of America's Adults
in the 21st Century

WHEN: December 15, 2005
9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. EST

For more information about this webcast, go to: http://www.nifl.gov/
or
http://www.nifl.gov/nifl/webcasts/20051215/webcast12-15.html

(Please access the site 30 minutes prior to the event to follow the
webcast guidelines.)
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The U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education
Statistics (NCES) in the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) invites you
to view the live webcast of the release of the first national findings on
adult literacy since 1992. Results from the 2003 National Assessment of Adult
Literacy (NAAL) will be released on December 15 at 9:30 a.m. EST. At that
time, NCES will release two initial reports on NAAL: A First Look at the
Literacy of America's Adults in the 21st Century presents key
results-including changes in adult literacy since 1992 and performance by
gender, race/ethnicity, age, language spoken before starting school,
educational attainment, and employment status. A companion report, Key
Concepts and Features of the 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy,
describes the assessment's key features and major data types.

These reports will be available online at http://nces.ed.gov/naal
beginning at 9:30 a.m. EST.

An online live chat moderated by NCES Associate Commissioner Peggy Carr
willbe available to all at 1:00 p.m. EST, December 15, at the NCES website
athttp://nces.ed.gov/naal.

Jaleh Behroozi Soroui
Education Statistics Services Institute (ESSI)
American Institutes for Research
1990 K Street, NW Suite 500
Washington, DC 20006
Phone: 202/403-6958
email: jsoroui at air.org




Aaron Kohring
Coordinator, LINCS Literacy & Learning Disabilities Special Collection
Moderator, NIFL Content Standards Discussion List

Center for Literacy Studies, University of Tennessee
EFF Center for Training and Technical Assistance
Phone:(865) 974-4109 main
           (865) 974-4258 direct
Fax:   (865) 974-3857
e-mail: akohring at utk.edu