No single action is more critical to our future economic security. By the end of the century. adequate literacy will be an essential precondition to living in our society. Only 14 percent of the jobs available then will be adequately performed by high school graduates. Most Jobs will need higher skills. Brt 80 percent of new job seekers at that time will be minorities. immigrants. and women. If we have not substantially improved our literacy levels by that time. we risk seeing those jobs exported overseas. For the last decade. we have read reports and analyses of the shortcomings in basic educational achievement in our country.
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