Hello  all,

Join us for a LIVE webcast of a new release from the National Center  for 
Education Statistics - "A First Look at the Literacy of America's Adults in  the 
21st Century."

WHEN: December 15, 2005
9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.  EST

For more information about this webcast,  go to: <http://www.nifl.gov/>  or
<http://www.nifl.gov/nifl/webcasts/20051215/webcast12-15.html>
(Please  access the site 30 minutes prior to the event to follow the webcast 
guidelines.)  

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The  U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education 
Statistics(NCES) in  the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) invites you to view the
live  webcast of the release of the first national findings on adult literacy 
since  1992. 
Results from the 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL)  will be 
released on December 15 at 9:30 a.m. EST. At that time, NCES will  release
two initial reports on NAAL. "A First Look at the Literacy of  America's 
Adults in the 21st Century" presents key results - including changes  in adult 
literacy since 1992 and performance by gender, race/ethnicity, age,  language 
spoken before starting
school, educational attainment, and  employment status. A companion report, 
"Key Concepts and Features of the 2003  National Assessment of Adult Literacy," 
describes the assessment's key features  and major data types.

These reports will be available online at  <http://nces.ed.gov/naal>
beginning at 9:30 a.m. EST.

An online,  live chat moderated by NCES Associate Commissioner, Peggy Carr, 
will be  available to all at 1:00 p.m. EST, December 15, at the NCES website
at  <http://nces.ed.gov/naal>.


Jaleh Behroozi Soroui
Education  Statistics Services Institute (ESSI)
American Institutes for Research
1990  K Street, NW Suite 500
Washington, DC 20006
Phone: 202/403-6958
email:  jsoroui at air.org <mailto:jsoroui at air.org>  

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