New York, NY, 9/4/07 -- The National Commission on Adult Literacy  
today released ADULT EDUCATION AND POSTSECONDARY SUCCESS by Steve  
Reder of Portland State University and the National Center for the  
Study of Adult Learning and Literacy. The policy brief was presented  
at the Commission's third meeting on August 20, 2007. It examines GED  
holders in comparison to their counterparts who have received a high  
school diploma as well as those with no high school credential. The  
comparisons are made in terms of long-term postsecondary education  
outcomes. The author makes numerous recommendations for expanding and  
restructuring the adult education system, with the goal of college  
readiness and success in mind. [September 4, 2007, 29 pages, publ.  
Council for Advancement of Adult Literacy]  This document and others  
that have been released are available from the Publications page of   
the National Commission website: http:// 
www.nationalcommissiononadultliteracy.org/pandp.html.

Over the next 2-3 weeks, three additional documents will be released:  
a policy brief by Julie Strawn of the Center for Law and Social  
Policy  (Policies to Promote Adult Education and Postsecondary  
Alignment); a policy brief by education consultant James Parker  
(Workplace Education: Twenty State Perspectives); and a special  
perspectives paper developed by Tony Peyton of the National Center  
for Family Literacy (Family Literacy in Adult Education: The Federal  
and State Support Role).








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