Thank you Thomas for the information.

Leonard E. Battle
Regional Director
Strategic & Community Partnerships
Workforce Development Division
NYC Department of Small Business Services

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Leonard: See chapter 4 and the Appendix of Additional Analyses for the
workforce data in the following report:

Kutner,M.,Greenberg,E.,Jin,Y.,Boyle,B.,Hsu,Y.,and
Dunleavy,E.(2007).Literacy
in Everyday Life: Results From the 2003 National Assessment of Adult
Literacy (NCES 2007-480). U.S. Department of Education. Washington, DC:
National Center for
Education Statistics.

The NCES World Wide Web Home Page address is http://nces.ed.gov.
The NCES World Wide Web Electronic Catalog is
http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch.

See pp. 130-131 of the following report for the intergenerational data.

Adult Literacy in the United States: a Compendium of Quantitative Data
With Interpretive Comments.
Presents a developmental theory of literacy and history of and items
from
standardized tests in the U.S. including military tests from World War I
to
1990s and all mass literacy tests for adults from 1930s to the National
Adult Literacy Survey (NALS) of 1993, which is similar to the NAAL of
2003.
Presents data on relationships of parents' education to the literacy of
their children; relationships of adult literacy to occupations; and
samples
of pre- and post-test gains for over 30 programs, including longitudinal
growth curves for some programs.
http://www.nald.ca/fulltext/adlitUS/adlitus.pdf


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