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Improving Adult Education for the 21st Century. Hearing Before the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, First Session. Hearing held in Washington, DC, March 4, 2003.
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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and the Workforce. – 2003
A hearing was held to discuss the prior four years of implementation of the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act, and to recommend further improvements. The opening statements of Chairman Howard McKeon and Dale E. Kildee introduce the meeting and discuss the importance of promoting an educated populace that will maintain the United States'…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Access to Education, Adult Basic Education
Adult Literacy: The Next Generation. An NCAL White Paper.
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National Center on Adult Literacy, Philadelphia, PA. – 1995
During the past 5 years, groundbreaking studies of adult literacy and literacy education have been conducted that can help policymakers and practitioners shape the next generation of adult literacy work in the United States. Among the topics examined in those studies were the following: relationship between literacy and economic well-being;…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Competition