To move from a fourthgrade level to an eighthgrade level may well require 2 years of hard work. In the best of scenarios under current programs. less than onehalf of the 4 million in remedial education programs will move out of the pool of illiterates in any given year. And even more bleak are the estimates that 1.5 to 2.3 million new illiterates are being added to the pool each year. chiefly from school dropouts and foreign immigrants. The Job Training Partnership Act programs. administered by the Department of Labor. have shown success in providing some basic education skills. training. and job placement services for unemployed or displaced workers. But JTPA does not address the needs of the functionally illiterate adult population.
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