>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

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>WHEN:          December 15, 2005

>                9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. EST

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>For more information about this webcast, go to: http://www.nifl.gov/

>or

>http://www.nifl.gov/nifl/webcasts/20051215/webcast12-15.html

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>(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.

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>These reports will be available online at http://nces.ed.gov/naal

>beginning at 9:30 a.m. EST.

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>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.

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>

>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

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