Here's a little more information about the National Commission on Adult Literacy report. 

REACH HIGHER, AMERICA, the report of the National Commission on Adult Literacy, on which the NCFL's Sharon Darling served, was released at a public event in Washington, DC, on June 26. The report documents the adult education and skills crisis facing American workers, proposes a fundamentally new approach to adult basic education and workforce skills preparation in America, and lays out the fiscal and social benefits that will result from substantially increased public expenditures for programs and services. Focus is on the need of the unemployed, low-skilled incumbent workers, immigrants with limited or no English, parents or caregivers with low basic skills, incarcerated adults, high school dropouts, and high school graduates not adequately prepared for college. Among other things, the Commission recommends transforming the current system, which reaches about 3 million adults annually, into an adult education and workforce skills system with the capacity to enroll 20 million adults by the year 2020 and a mission of moving adults to readiness for postsecondary education and job training. The report offers a kind of "domestic Marshall plan" for meeting workforce education needs-including bold recommendations for state government, business and labor, philanthropy, and the general public. A clear message of the report is that unless the nation gives much higher priority to the basic educational needs of the workforce-adults 16 and older beyond the reach of the schools-America's standard of living, its status as a leading world power, and its very social fabric will be further eroded. This important report and various related materials are available in PDF from the Commission's website at www.nationalcommissiononadultliteracy.org <https://outlook.ezoutlook.com/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.nationalcommissiononadultliteracy.org>  Instructions are given there for purchase of hard copies.


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Subject: [FamilyLiteracy 1137] National Commission on Adult Literacy FinalReport



Colleagues,

On behalf of the National Commission on Adult Literacy, its study director Cheryl King, and its chairman David Perdue, I am pleased to alert you to the final report of the National Commission on Adult Literacy, titled Reach Higher, America: Overcoming Crisis in the U.S. Workforce. Please note that this report was released at an event at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. yesterday. You may obtain a PDF copy, related materials, and instructions for ordering a hardcopy from www.nationalcommissiononadultliteracy.org.

Gail Spangenberg
Commissioner, National Commission on Adult Literacy
(President, Council for Advancement of Adult Literacy)
1221 Avenue of the Americas - 46th Floor
New York, NY 10020
212-512-2363
www.nationalcommissiononadultliteracy.org
www.caalusa.org
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