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Title: New Expectations for a New Century: The Adult Education Imperative


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New Expectations for a New CenturyThe Adult
Education Imperative
Cheryl Keenan, Director Division of Adult
Education and Literacy Office of Vocational and
Adult Education United States Department of
Education
2
Skill Level Changes
Skilled 20
Unskilled 15
Unskilled 60
Professional 20
Skilled 65
Professional 20
1950
1997
National Summit on 21st Century Skills for 21st
Century Jobs
3
Fastest Growing Jobs Require Some Education
Beyond High School
4
High Learning High Earning
S A L A R Y
5
Percentage of population with a postsecondary
credential
Losing Our Edge?
55-64
45-54
35-44
25-34
Education at a Glance OECD Indicators 2003
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Losing Our Edge?
Students Enrolled in Postsecondary (in thousands)
UNESCO, 2003
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Losing Our Edge?
  • NAEP 2002 Math Assessment
  • 12th Graders Scoring Below Basic
  • 35 percent of all students
  • 56 percent of Hispanic students
  • 69 percent of African-American students
  • 60 percent of low-income students

8
College remediation ratesEntering freshmen, 2000
Source NCES, Remedial Education at
Degree-Granting Postsecondary Institutions in
Fall 2000,
9
Literacy skills of American adults
  • 21-23 percent (40 to 43 million) of the 191
    million American adults at Level 1- lowest level
    of prose, document, and quantitative
    proficiencies.
  • 25-28 percent (about 50 million) at Level 2.
  • (source National Adult Literacy Survey, 1992)
  • The latest survey, the 2003 National Assessment
    of Adult Literacy, will provide the first
    assessment of adult literacy since 1992.

10
NALS Levels
  • Level 1. Able to perform simple, routine tasks
    involving brief and uncomplicated texts and
    documents.
  • Level 2. Able to locate information in text, to
    make low-level inferences using printed
    materials, and to integrate easily identifiable
    pieces of information.
  • Levels 3-5. Able to integrate information from
    relatively long or dense text or long and complex
    documents.

11
Adult Education Target Population 2000 Census
Data
  • 51 million (23) adults have not completed high
    school
  • 31 of those have 8 or fewer years of education
  • 31 of those do not speak English as their first
    language

12
US Census Bureau, Census 2000 Summary FileWho is
the target population?
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Target Pop 2000 Census Data
  • Racial distribution of target
  • 66 White
  • 15 Black
  • 26 of target is of Hispanic or Latino origin

14
The Costs of Low Literacy
  • Adult without high school diploma earns 42 less
    than an adult with a high school diploma.
  • Limited literacy skills cost business and
    taxpayers 20 billion in lost wages, profits and
    productivity annually.

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The Costs of Low Literacy
  • 50 of the chronically unemployed are not
    functionally literate.
  • 41-44 of adults who scored in Level 1 on the
    National Adult Literacy Survey (1992) were in
    poverty (federal guidelines), compared with 4 -6
    of adults who scored in the highest level.

16
Workers/Workplace Literacy
The Conference Board (1999)
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Workers/Workplace Literacy
The Conference Board (1999)
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Workers/Workplace Literacy

The Conference Board (1999)
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Large numbers of adults are engaged in education
and training
Source National Council for Education and
Training (2004)
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Why Invest in Adult Education
  • In summary . . . . .

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What is the need for adult education?
  • Educating the workforce to compete in a global
    economy.
  • Helping adults to positively influence their
    families lives.
  • Encouraging adults to become engaged in their
    community.

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Preparing for a rapidly changing economy
  • By 2006, 2/3 of all jobs will require education
    and skills beyond high school diploma.
  • Job growth at lower skill levels are insufficient
    to support a family.
  • New Economy requires flexibility of workers and
    adaptation to change.
  • Growing need for adult literacy and skills
    remediation
  • Strong link between literacy and earnings.

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Preparing for a rapidly changing economy
  • A lack of formal schooling and solid base of
    literacy skills place adults at a considerably
    higher risk of poverty and economic dependency
    today in the U.S. and other high-income countries
    around the world.
  • The US appears to be living off past higher
    education investments and will inevitably lose
    ground in the coming decade.

24
Adult Learners as family memberscan impact their
childrens lives
  • Percentage of parents who reported attending a
    school event in 1999
  • 39.2 - less than a high school education,
  • 59.0 - high school diploma/GED,
  • 67.2 - some college/vocational/technical
    education,
  • 76.2- bachelor's degree, and
  • 79.0 - graduate/professional school education.
  • Source National Household Educational
    Survey (1999)

25
Adult Learners as family memberscan impact their
childrens lives
  • Parents who reported acting as a volunteer or
    serving on a committee in 1999
  • 13.5 - less than a high school education,
  • 26.7 - high school diploma/GED,
  • 38.1 - some college/vocational/technical
    education,
  • 50.4 - bachelor's degree, and
  • 54.6 - graduate/professional school education.
  •   Source National Household Educational
    Survey (1999)

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Civic Responsibility
  • Since democracy is the context and the condition
    for everything else that is valuedwork, family
    life, religion, politics, recreation, and
    leisurepreserving its vitality and integrity
    must be a central objective of adult education.
    (Boggs 1991b, p. 54).

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New Expectations forAdult Education in a New
CenturyThe Role of the Office of Vocational and
Adult Education
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A shared vision for Adult Basic and Literacy
Education
  • Adults will have opportunities to improve
    their basic and literacy skills in high-quality,
    research-based programs that will equip them to
    succeed in the next step of their education and
    employment.

29
Improving Learner Outcomes
  • Focus on what works
  • Advance content standards and assessment
  • Improve program quality and accountability
  • Expand options for adult education services

30
Focus on What Works
  • Investments in research
  • Reading Partnership
  • ESL Study
  • ESL Assessment Design Study
  • Translating research to practice
  • Project STAR STudent Achievement in Reading

31
More on Research
  • Keeping the public eye on literacy
  • NAAL Survey
  • ALL Survey
  • AEP Survey
  • Monograph production

32
Advancing Standards
  • Increase focus on reading, writing, numeracy, and
    English proficiency
  • Guide development of curriculum and instruction
    and aligned assessment
  • Improve program quality

33
Advancing Standards
  • 15 states forming two consortia
  • Development of standards warehouse
  • Goal Move states forward in their efforts to
    use standards to improve the quality of services

34
Improving Accountability
  • National Reporting System
  • Data Quality Standards
  • Using data for program improvement
  • Increased focus on local program evaluation
  • Linking funding to performance

35
Setting Standards
  • Center for Adult English Language Acquisition
  • Practitioner Toolkit Working with Adult English
    Language Learners

36
Expanding Access
  • The Role of Technology
  • Distance Learning and Project IDEAL
  • Extending learning beyond the classroom
  • New applications for classroom learning

37
Expanding Options Partnering
  • Employer partnerships for workplace investments
    in workplace education
  • Adult Education Coordination Project
  • Partnering with One-Stops

38
Expanding Options Partnering
  • White House Task Force report on disadvantaged
    youth
  • Interagency collaborative to help states utilize
    resources and mobilize for action
  • Federal-state support team

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Education Our Competitive Edge
Productivity in the United States has increased
generation after generation, creating ever-rising
standards of livingOur knowledge-based skills in
a business environment, supported by a rule of
law, have enabled our workforce to create
ever-greater value added--irrespective of what
goods and services we have chosen to produce at
home and what and how much we have chosen to
import. -- Alan Greenspan (2004)
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