About | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline

LOG IN
LOG IN


520 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 8 (1992)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0520 and id is 1 raw text is: FOREWORD The conference World Literacy in the Year 2000: Research and Policy Dimensions, from which this volume of The Annals is derived, brought together more than sixty literacy specialists and policymakers from around the world for four days of debate, conversation, and dialogue. Many topics were explored, as amply demonstrated in the following articles. Plans for future collaborations were made, some of which have already begun to bear fruit. Fortuitously, it was during the conference that the U.S. Department of Education officially announced the establishment of the U.S. National Center on Adult Literacy at the University of Pennsylvania, a research and develop- ment effort aimed at many of the very questions raised by the conferees. The conference, held in October 1990 at the University of Pennsylvania, was cosponsored by the U.S. Department of State, the United Nations Educa- tional, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, the United Nations Children's Fund, the International Development Research Centre, the Swedish Inter- national Development Agency, the Carnegie Corporation, and the James S. McDonnell Foundation. Support for the editing of this volume was provided in part by the Carnegie Corporation and the U.S. Department of Education (Grant No. R117Q00003). DANIEL A. WAGNER LAUREL D. PUCHNER 8