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Lifelong Learning: New Strategies for the Education of Working Adults - 0 views

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T.E.D. Transatlantic Educators Dialogue teacher adult learning

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  • ncreases in the education level of our labor force contributed very significantly to steady productivity gains, sustained economic growth, and formidable national competitiveness in an increasingly global economy.
  • The demographic factors that worked to our nation’s advantage in the past are turning against us in the future.
  • must leave no children behind,
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  • get much better at educating our working adults.
  • adult literacy problem
  • under-educated and under-skilled adults workers is getting worse
  • create new economic incentives for employers to help finance basic skill training, English as a Second Language or ESL training, and credentialed postsecondary education for their employees
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  • strengthen existing incentives for individuals themselves t
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  • postsecondary institutions to develop more flexible programs and degree strategies that work for working adults.
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  • utilization of technology to accelerate English-language proficiency among non-English speakers and employer-defined basic skills for low-literacy adults
  • Finally,
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