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From: NCES Webmaster at ed.gov
Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 4:45 PM
Subject: Participation in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning: 2000-01

This is the first full report, released by NCES, using data from the Adult 
Education and Lifelong Learning Survey of the 2001 National Household 
Education Survey Programs (AELL-NHES:2001) on the educational activities of 
adults in the United States. The report shows that 46 percent of adults in 
the United States participated in some type of formal education between 
early 2000 and early 2001. Apart from looking at overall participation in 
formal educational activities, major topics addressed in the report include 
participation in various types of formal educational activities; 
characteristics of participating adults; educational experiences in college 
or university degree programs on a part-time basis, work-related courses, 
and personal interest courses; reasons for participation in work-related 
courses; characteristics of participants who received employer support; and 
characteristics of participants in work-related informal learning 
activities. To download, view and print the report as a pdf file, please 
visit: <http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2004050>