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New ETS Report Predicts Significant Drop in Literacy RateAccording to a new report from the Educational Testing Service (ETS), U.S. workers may be significantly less literate in 2030 than today. The report, released yesterday, predicts retiring baby boomers will be replaced by a large wave of less-educated immigrants, resulting in a downward shift in reading and math skills among the U.S. workforce. "There is no time that I can tell you in the last hundred years" where literacy and numeracy have declined, said Andrew Sum, director of the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University, in a Christian Science Monitor report. "But if you don't change outcomes for a wide variety of groups, this is the future we face." The decline in literacy is one of three converging trends that the ETS has labeled a "perfect storm" on the country's horizon. The other two factors are a dramatically changing economy driven by technological innovation and globalization and sweeping demographic changes due to an ever-growing immigrant population. Authors of the report suggest--among other things--increasing attention on early childhood education, on continuing adult education, and on programs that address the achievement gap.
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