From the Desk of the CEO: Changing the Systems that Perpetuate Poverty and Low Literacy
Adults don’t stay low literate because they didn’t want to learn how to read—their economic status set them up to fail from the time they were young.
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The new PIAAC Survey of Adult Skills data indicates 60 million US adults read at the lowest levels, while 72 million are at the lowest levels for numeracy.
Adults don’t stay low literate because they didn’t want to learn how to read—their economic status set them up to fail from the time they were young.
Worldwide, 40% of the population—or hundreds of millions of people—do not have access to an education in a language they speak or understand.
The best way to help educators build inclusive classrooms might be to model that same inclusive framework during professional development.
In the new issue of our research journal, leading experts share their experiences of how they reached low-level adults as the field shifted to career-focused instruction and funding.
Finding resources and support to tailor a career pathways service model for low-level leaners can be difficult.
Our new Career Power series is targeted toward low-level learners to prepare them for IET career pathways programs.