Hello PD List Colleagues,

I thought this newest release from CAAL would be of interest to you.

 

Please see below...Jackie Taylor

 

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From: Gail Spangenberg [mailto:gspangenberg at caalusa.org] 
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 11:10 AM
To: National Literacy Advocacy List sponsored by AAACE;
library-lit at ala.org; technology at nifl.gov; The Workplace Literacy
Discussion List
Subject: [AAACE-NLA] CAAL/Commission Report on Inflation...

 

 

The National Commission on Adult Literacy, in Reach Higher, America,
calls for an expenditure (in 2008 dollars), for the new adult education
and workforce skills system it recommends, of $20 billion in public
funding. It also calls for an unspecified amount in private sector
funding, creation of a new national trust to help support development of
this system which would be supported by both public and private funds,
and use of technology on an unprecedented scale to help achieve
increased enrollments and bring down per-student program costs. 

 

The Center for Labor Management Studies at Northeastern recently
calculated the affects of inflation by 2020 on the $20 billion figure
and for private sector funding. The results are presented in a short
paper prepared for CAAL as part of its follow-up work on behalf of the
Commission. The paper is posted for interested parties at the CAAL
website, www.caalusa.org (Publications page, item NC-CAAL3), along with
other recent analyses for CAAL/the Commission.

 

 

 

 

Gail Spangenberg

President

Council for Advancement of Adult Literacy

1221 Avenue of the Americas - 46th Fl

New York, NY 10020

212-512-2362, F: 212-512-2610

www.caalusa.org

 





 

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