SAVE THE DATE for a LIVE webcast!

Health Literacy of America's Adults: 
Results from the 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy 

WHEN:	August 29, 2007
		1:30 PM - 3:00 PM Eastern Time
		12:30 PM - 2:00 PM Central Time 
		11:30 AM - 1:00 PM Mountain Time 
		10:30 AM - 12:00 AM Pacific Time 

** Registration information will be shared in a future posting, but for now,

SAVE THE DATE for a LIVE webcast on Wednesday, August 29! **

For more information about this webcast or The National Institute for
Literacy, 
go to: http://www.nifl.gov.


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The August 29 webcast will focus on the Health Literacy of America's Adults:
Results of the National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL) 2003.  

The live webcast will feature:
*	Dr. Sheida White directs the National Assessment of Adult Literacy
at the National Center for Education Statistics (or NCES).  Her doctoral
degree is in linguistics from Georgetown University.  After working as a
full-time reading researcher for 6 years, she joined NCES in 1991.  During
the first 8 years at NCES, she monitored the National Assessment of
Education Progress (NAEP).  Since 1999, she has been directing the NAAL
project. Dr. White has taught non-native English speaking adults.  She
created a guided reading program to address the reading comprehension needs
of slow readers. Her articles have appeared in journals such as "Language in
Society" and "Reading Research Quarterly".

*	Other panelists: TBA.  The webcast will be moderated by Dr. Sandra
L. 
Baxter, Director of the National Institute for Literacy.

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The National Institute for Literacy has hosted a number of web casts
presenting information, findings and results from the National Assessment of
Adult Literacy (NAAL), for more information on these webcast, please go to:
http://www.nifl.gov/nifl/NAAL2003.html.


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