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Developing Human Capital: A Five-Year Plan for Enhancing Literacy in Texas. Presented to the Governor of Texas, the Lieutenant Governor of Texas, the Speaker of the House, Members of the 72nd Legislature.

Texas State Literacy Council, Austin. – 1991

Texas' overall goal must be to reduce the percentage of its population without basic literacy and numeracy skills to no more than the percentage of jobs available to these underprepared workers. With only 14 percent of tomorrow's jobs projected to require less than a high school education, nearly one Texas worker in five will be unemployable. The…

Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Correctional Education