National Research Council Report: Improving Adult Literacy Instruction: Options for Practice and Research www.nationalacademies.org/adultliteracy

This public event is an opportunity to discuss the newly released National Research Council (NRC) consensus report Improving Adult Literacy: Options for Practice and Research. Members of the committee that wrote the report will present the report’s key findings and messages, and invited experts will examine opportunities for acting on the report recommendations and related challenges. Invited speakers and audience members will include policymakers, business leaders, administrators of adult literacy programs offered in adult education programs and community colleges, public and private funders of research and development for literacy, and developers of curricula and education technologies. The discussion is designed to establish some common understandings about the report and to consider how the report may be used to shape and support activities at federal, state and local levels for improving adult literacy instruction.

Information about signing on to the webcast will be available on the NRC website www.nationalacademies.org/adultliteracy. This webcast will be free and open to the public.
 
To register for the webcast: http://www8.nationalacademies.org/EventRegistration/public/Register.aspx?event=97BF95BD

Registration for the webcast closes on Tuesday, May 29.