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From the Margins to the Mainstream: An Action Agenda for Literacy. (PDF)
By National Coalition for Literacy
September 01, 2000

Summary: This report proposes a plan of action to help the United States meet its literacy challenges. Section 1 is a call to action that emphasizes the challenge posed by the 1993 National Adult Literacy Survey that found more than 40 million adults--over a fifth of the adult population--have low literacy skills. Section 2 presents literacy as a national concern, since literacy skills are critical to holding a job, a healthy economy, better health outcomes, better Internet access, and parental support of children's language and literacy development. Section 3 proposes an action agenda built around three key priorities. Section 4 presents the three priorities--resources, access, and quality--accompanied by outcomes of achieving the priorities and a sampling of actions that stakeholders and their partners in states or communities can take. A list of group participants is appended.

Index Terms: Adult Literacy, Benefits, Adult Education, Program Development, National Literacy Summit 2000

Publisher: National Coalition for Literacy

Publication Type: Reports (Descriptive)

Pages: 10 pages
Language: English
URL: http://www.gse.harvard.edu/~ncsall/summit.pdf

ERIC Number: ED444028

Availability
National Coalition for Literacy
50 East Huron St.
Chicago, Illinois 60611
800-228-8813
E-mail: NCL@ala.org
http://www.gse.harvard.edu/~ncsall/

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