Virginia’s NRS Figures

Virginia’s Annual Performance Report

Annual Performance Report, Virginia Department of Education, Division of Technology and Career Education, Office of Adult Education and Literacy: Virginia Annual Report, July 1, 2006 – June 30, 2007

• Virginia State Combined Annual Performance Figures: July 1, 2006-June 30, 2007

• Click here to read the Adult Education Annual Report to Congress, USDOE, 2004-2005, PDF Doc
  

Workforce Article

Help Wanted: Smyth County, Virginia

by Sally H. Morgan, Economic and Community Development Director, Smyth County, Virginia, Fall, 2005.

This article describes how a rural county used a workforce development strategy to bring the dying manufacturing economy robustly back to life. Click here to read the article.

Workforce Report

America’s Perfect Storm

Three powerful forces are having an impact on America’s future, according to [a 2007] ETS (Educational Testing Service)report, America’s Perfect Storm: Three Forces Changing our Nation’s Future (pdf). The forces to note are:a wide disparity in literacy and numeracy skills among school-age and adult populations;

• changes in the economy resulting in new sources of wealth, novel patterns of international trade and a shift in the balance between capital and labor; and

• demographic changes including a population increase from 300 million in 2005 to more than 360 million in 2030, an older and more diverse population, and continuing immigration.

• The authors suggest that America is at a crossroads: leaving present-day policies in place will lead to greater inequity in wages and wealth, and increasing social and political polarization. On the other hand, if America changes its policies, “then we have an opportunity to reclaim the American dream in which each of us has a fair chance at sharing in any future prosperity.” This text is from About.com

Download Documents:

• PDF Document, with charts and graphs
• PowerPoint Slide: Presentation made by Irwin Kirsch, ETS, National Press Club
• Video from YouTube: Art Fennel Reports

Virginia Facts

Virginia Program Fact Sheet From NCSDAE

Click on the top image to enlarge it. Click here to go to the PDF document, Adult Education Services: The Success, The Impact, and the Need, 2003-2004, and compare Virginia to other states. The NCSDAE stands for the National Council of State Directors of Adult Education.