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Peer reviewedWaggoner, Dorothy – NABE: The Journal for the National Association for Bilingual Education, 1981
The article presents some findings of the 1976 Survey of Income and Education in which the National Center for Education Statistics and the U.S. Census Bureau obtained information about the characteristics and educational status of the approximately 28 million people in this country with language backgrounds other than English. (NQA)
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adults, Educational Attainment, Educational Status Comparison
Download full textJones, Dennis; Kelly, Patrick – National Commission on Adult Literacy (NJ1), 2007
At a time when economic competitiveness is determined to a considerable extent by the education levels of a nation's workforce, the United States is at serious risk of losing its edge in this realm. While the U.S. still has the best-educated workforce in the world, the advantage arises because of the superior education attainment levels of the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Educational Attainment, Competition
Peer reviewedOxford, Rebecca; And Others – NABE: The Journal for the National Association for Bilingual Education, 1981
Unique in its use of several major national data sets to create a data base for future projections, this study reports the projected number of non-English language background and limited English proficient persons in the United States to the year 2000 for the nation, and by state, age, and language. (Author/CM)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Age Groups, Asian Americans
