Join us for a LIVE webcast of a new release from the National Center for
Education Statistics – A First Look at the Literacy of America’s Adults in
the 21st Century

WHEN:          December 15, 2005
               9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. EST

For more information about this webcast, go to: http://www.nifl.gov/ or 
http://www.nifl.gov/nifl/webcasts/20051215/webcast12-15.html
(Please access the site 30 minutes prior to the event to follow the webcast
guidelines.)                 

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The U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics
(NCES) in the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) invites you to view the
live webcast of the release of the first national findings on adult literacy
since 1992.  Results from the 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy
(NAAL) will be released on December 15 at 9:30 a.m. EST. At that time, NCES
will release two initial reports on NAAL: A First Look at the Literacy of
America’s Adults in the 21st Century presents key results—including changes
in adult literacy since 1992 and performance by gender, race/ethnicity, age,
language spoken before starting school, educational attainment, and
employment status. A companion report, Key Concepts and Features of the 2003
National Assessment of Adult Literacy, describes the assessment’s key
features and major data types.

These reports will be available online at http://nces.ed.gov/naal beginning
at 9:30 a.m. EST.

An online live chat moderated by NCES Associate Commissioner Peggy Carr will
be available to all at 1:00 p.m. EST,  December 15, at the NCES website at
http://nces.ed.gov/naal.

 
Jaleh Behroozi Soroui
Education Statistics Services Institute (ESSI)
American Institutes for Research
1990 K Street, NW Suite 500
Washington, DC 20006
Phone: 202/403-6958
email: jsoroui at air.org