Facts and Statistics for Adult Education and Literacy in Virginia and the U.S.
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  • Demographics and Health Care Access and Utilization of Limited-English-Proficient and English-Proficient Hispanics
  • Drugs, Supplements and Herbal Information: In English and Spanish, from Medline Plus
  • Health and Nutrition: In English and in Spanish, USA.gov
  • Health Literacy and Adult English Language Learners, Kate Singleton

Reports

  • Accessible Health Information Technology (IT) For Populations With Limited Literacy: A Guide for Developers and Purchasers of Health IT, 2007
  • Association of Numeracy and Diabetes Control
  • Link Between Longevity and Education, NY Times, April, 2012
  • Practical Assessment of Adult Literacy in Health Care
  • Online Health Information and Low-Literacy African Americans

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  • Gathering Statistics

    • About Statistics
    • Proposal Writing: Short Course from the Foundation Center. Includes how to use statistics.
  • Grants and Funding Resources

    • Back to Basics: The Art of Gathering Grant Data
    • Downloadable Fund Raising Materials
    • Grants Information
    • Stating Your Case: Creating Case Statements
    • VALRCs Grant Writing Resources
    • Writing an Outstanding Competitive Grant
  • Information for Virginia

    • 2003 NAAL State and County Estimates of Low Literacy
    • Accessing Virginia Statistics on the Internet: Virginia Libraries
    • Census Virginia Quick Facts
    • Community Profiles from YesVirginia.org
    • Community Profiles: Virginia Employment Commission
    • Dollar Value of Volunteer Time
    • Educational Attainment, VA Counties and Cities, 2006-2010 US Census
    • JLARC: VA General Assembly Reports
    • Labor Market Data: Virginia Workforce Connection
    • Population Estimates
    • Poverty and the Social Safety Net in Virginia
    • Poverty in Virginia: Virginia Performs
    • Refugee Resettlement Reports
    • Statistical Resources, Scholar’s Lab, UVA
    • VAACE
    • Virginia Atlas of Community Health
    • Virginia Career View
    • Virginia Employment Commission
    • Virginia Jobs
    • Virginia State Fact Sheet
    • Virginia Statistics at the Weldon Cooper Center
    • Virginia’s Not So Hidden Secret: The Adult Literacy Crisis
    • Weldon Cooper Center for Public Statistics
  • Learning Disability

    • LD.org
    • Literacy Fact Sheet: Learning Disabilities
    • Social Skills and Adults With Learning Disabilities
  • Literacy Program Director Information

    • How To Start a Literacy Program, PDF Document, Illinois
    • How to Start a Literacy Program: ABE, GED, ESOL, Library, and Faith-based
  • National Literacy Information

    • Adult Literacy a Factor in U.S. Economic/Health Crisis: 2011
    • Adult Literacy Development and Economic Growth: 2010
    • Facts and Figures from OVAE
    • Facts and Statistics: Adult Learners
    • LINCS: Information and Communication System
    • National Reporting System: Fast Facts
    • NCSDAE
    • Stateline: State Policy and Politics Updated Daily
    • World Bank Data: United States
  • Search For Demographic Information

    • 2003 NAAL State and County Estimates of Low Literacy
    • Adult Literacy Estimates: Stephen Reder, PDF Document based on 1990 Census
    • Fair Data Using the 2000 Census
    • U.S. Census Bureau
  • Statistics for Correctional Education

    • From the Classroom to the Community: Exploring the role of education from incarceration to re-entry, 2009, The Urban Institute
    • Literacy Behind Bars: 2003 PDF Survey Report
    • Literacy Behind Prison Walls, 1994
    • Literacy Fact Sheet: Correctional Education
    • Moving Men Into the Mainstream
    • National Criminal Justice Reference Service
    • Re-Entry and Corrections Education
    • What Are the Economic Effects of Earning a GED in Prison?
  • Virginia Localities

    • Alexandria, Virginia: Poverty Rates, 2009
    • An Overview of Poverty, Race, and Jurisdiction in Metropolitan Richmond, 2010
    • Help Wanted: Smyth County, Virginia
    • Literacy Facts: D.C.Learns
    • United Way of Richmond and Greater Petersburg: Research and Resources
    • Virginia Statistics at the Weldon Cooper Center
  • World Sites

    • Adult and workplace Learning: Canada
    • Adult Literacy and Numeracy: Scotland
    • Best Practices for Adult Literacy: New Brunswick
    • International Education Statistics: Trends in adult literacy 1990-2008
    • Learning a Living: First Results of the Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey, 2005
    • National Adult Literacy Database: Canada
    • New Technologies for Literacy and Adult Education: A Global Perspective
    • NRDC: National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy, UK.
    • State of the Field Report: Adult Literacy: Canada, 2006
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