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Adult Education
| VA GED Hotline. This wonderful service is up and running. Call
1 877-37-MY-GED or check their website at
www.vaged.vcu.eduto get information about the tests, times and locations,
and tips for studying. |
GED on TV. Adelphia Cable, Channel 13, carries GED lessons on Monday
and Thursday evenings from 7:00 to 7:30 PM.
Adult Education Fact Sheet
The Need for Adult Education
- 27,596 adults in this region have no high school diploma.
- 13,321 residents speak a language other than English at home.
| Locality |
Adults age 18 + up
with no high
school
diploma |
% Population over 25,
no high school diploma |
% Population living below
federal poverty index* |
| Albemarle | 8,061 | 13 % | 6.7% |
| Charlottesville | 5,036 | 19 % | 25.9% |
| Fluvanna | 3,024 | 20 % | 5.9% |
| Greene | 2,452 | 22 % | 6.6% |
| Louisa | 5,485 | 28 % | 10.2% |
| Albemarle | 3,538 | 41 % | 12.1% |
- * Note: Federal poverty guidelines determine a household of 4 lives in
poverty when their annual income is at or below $18,400.
Special Populations
- Public Housing Residents: over 50% do not have high school diploma.
- Social Services Recipients: over 50% do not have high school diploma.
- Inmates of prisons and jhail: over 70% do not have high school diploma.
- Parents: Children from low literacy families come to school lacking
the readiness opportunities that are available to other children.
- Workers: 36% of job applicants tested by major U.S. companies in
1999 lacked sufficient reading and math skills to do the job they sought.
This figure is up from 23% in 1997 and 19% in 1996.
- Businesses: Almost every area business is experiencing a shortage of
well-qualified, entry level workers. (per Business Education Roundtable
Report, 2002.)
- Immigrants and Refugees: need English to survive in America.
On a national level, more than 40% of the US workforce and
more than 50% of high school graduates do not have the basic skills to do their
job.
- -- Turning Skills Into Profit: Economic Benefits of Workplace
Education Programs, The Conference Board, Inc.
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The Benefits of Adult Education
Workforce
- Adults over age 25 with a GED earn on average $7,400 more per year than
those without a high school diploma.
- Employers cite improvement in the quality of work, team performance and capacity to
learn new skills, such as technology.
- Completion of the GED provides the bridge to further education and training
opportunities.
...I enrolled in the Adult Education Program. Since then everything
has changed in my life. I have learned the language, I have learned the culture, and I
have learned the way people live in this country. It is one of the most important
and the most helpful programs throughw hcih we rebuild and reshape our lives.
--Lobsang Jigme, GED Graduate 2003
Education of Children
- Children of mothers with high education levels stay in school longer
than children of mothers with low levels of education.
(Office of Research, US Government)
- The substantial relationship between parent involvement and reading
comprehension levels is well documented. When involvement is low,
children scored an average of 46 points below the national average in
reading, and where involvement is high, children scored 28 points above
the national average.
(Reading Literacy in the United States: Findings from the IEA
Reading Literacy Study, US Department of Education)
The (CCS Workplace) class helped me to read
and spell better. It also helped me to understand and deal with the "kid"
homework that the kids bring home, because it has been 30 years ago
since I was in school. The kids' homework today is harder than it was 30
years ago. This class helps my kids. They see me and try harder.-
-- Charlottesville City employee, May 2003
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Read the stories of the Charlottesville Adult Education students who participated
in a special project -
Health Education for Adult Literacy,
Breast and Cervical Cancer.
The stories are inspiring and include lots of good lifestyle information, vocabulary and
help finding medical resources locally.
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