[AAACE-NLA] FW: NEW NCES REPORT! - Literacy Behind Bars: Results From the 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy Prison Survey

[David Collings]

The following message comes to you on behalf of Donna Martinez.
 
David C.

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From: Donna Martinez [mailto:dmartin336 at msn.com] 
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 10:53 PM
To: David Collings
Subject: NEW NCES REPORT! - Literacy Behind Bars: Results From the



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REPORT! - Literacy Behind Bars: Results From the 

2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy Prison Survey 

 

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) has just released
Literacy Behind Bars: Results From the 2003 National Assessment of Adult
Literacy Prison Survey. This report presents findings on the literacy skills
of incarcerated adults and analyzes the changes in these skills since the 

1992 National Adult Literacy Survey (NALS). 

 

Major findings include the following: 

 

* The average Prose, Document, and Quantitative literacy scores of the
prison population were higher in 2003 than in 1992. 

 

* Prison inmates had lower average prose, document, and quantitative
literacy than adults living in households. On average, inmates also had
lower levels of educational attainment than adults living in households. 

 

* In general, either prison inmates had lower average Prose, Document, and
Quantitative literacy than adults living in households with the same level
of educational attainment or there was no statistically significant
difference between the two groups.  The exception was that among adults
without any high school education, prison inmates had higher average
literacy on all three scales than adults living in households. 

 

* In 2003, 37 percent of the prison population did not have a high school
diploma or a GED, compared with 49 percent in 1992. 

 

* Incarcerated White adults had lower average prose literacy than White
adults living in households.  Incarcerated Black and Hispanic adults had
higher average prose literacy than Black and Hispanic adults living in
households. 

 

* Between 1992 and 2003, average prose and quantitative literacy levels
increased for prison inmates who were Black, male, or in the 

25- to 39-year-old age group. 

 

To download, view and print the publication as a PDF file, please visit:
http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2007473

 

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Donna Martinez

Director

The HEATH Resource Center

The George Washington University 

Graduate School of Education and Human Development

2134 G Street, NW

Washington, DC 20052

Phone: 202-973-0904

FAX: 202-994-3365

dmartine at gwu.edu

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