Reach Higher, America: Overcoming Crisis in the U.S. Workforce

This report, from the Council for Advancement of Adult Literacy (CAAL) will resonate strongest with our community college SCUPers. It calls for a "domestic Marshall plan" dramatically revamp the US:

service system with the capacity to effectively serve 20 million adults annually by the year 2020. It also calls for resetting the educational mission of this new system to demonstrated readiness for postsecondary education and job training. The report recommends specific actions to accomplish this with emphasis on groups most in need of service and on system accountability and results. State and federal government, business and labor, philanthropic groups, nonprofit organizations, and the general public all have a vital role in meeting the Commission’s vision for America’s 21st Century workforce.