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ERIC Number: ED305457
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1988-Nov
Pages: 14
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Adult Functional Literacy in the South: Program Responses and a Proposal for a Regional Approach. SGPB Alert. Analysis of Emerging Issues. No. 25.
Johnson, Oliver
An educated, skilled, flexible work force will be the key to southern economic development. The South must have workers better equipped to learn modern, ever-changing work skills. The lack of these skills prevents the region from achieving the productivity gains that it could otherwise accomplish. There is a growing interest on the part of policymakers throughout the South in attacking the problems of illiteracy and undereducation in the adult population. Nearly all the southern states have created some sort of coalition to coordinate various literacy efforts--sometimes in conjunction with state-financed education programs and sometimes as entirely separate entities. The creation of a regional strategy--including, perhaps, the establishment of a southern regional literacy center--could be a major step toward a comprehensive assault on functional illiteracy. (YLB)
Southern Growth Policies Board, 5001 South Miami Blvd., P.O. Box 12293, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 ($3.00).
Publication Type: Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Southern Growth Policies Board, Research Triangle Park, NC.
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