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January, 2003

FY’04 Appropriations Recommendations – Overview

The changing global economy, a hallmark of the 21st century, will test
America’s leadership role in the world as never before. If our nation is
to meet the challenge, it will have to invest substantially more in
education at all levels – including, as a top priority, work-force
education, family literacy, ESL learning, and other components of the
adult education
and literacy system.

Adult education researcher Thomas Sticht asserts that the federal
government can get double duty dollars by "redirecting how monies are
spent by the Departments of Education, Health and Human Services, and
Labor on education and employment training." He asserts that by focusing
on the intergenerational transfer of cognitive skills and functional
context education "it is possible to get twice or even three times the
education or employment outcomes that these programs aim to produce." His
paper "Double Duty Dollars: Investing in the Education of Adults to
Improve the Educability of Children and the Employability of Their
Parents" (attached) explains how this can be accomplished. "
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