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What we know about adult literacy: learners and providers in Davidson County. (This summary is pulled from a compilation of reports, Census figures, and data. See Appendices for raw data) Learners Davidson Co. population - 650,000 people; nearly 500,000 adults (18 years and older) Of these 500,000 adults, roughly 80,000 need significant literacy assistance. 1 in 6 adults. They are both native English speakers and non-native English speakers. 55,000 adults are at the lowest level: Adult Basic Learners -- (ABL): less than 6th grade reading & comprehension ability. No HS diploma or equivalent. There are an additional 25,000 adults+ who can read above a 6th grade level, but do not possess a HS diploma or GED. Acquiring one would require improved literacy skills. Based on Census survey, 2003 NAAL report, 2009 Chamber report (*see APPX A). Data collection on ELL adults & ELL Adult literacy programs is fragmented. A Brookings Institute Reporti finds Nashville has the 4th highest growth rate among the top 100 cities. From 2006-2009, the foreign-born adult population (18-64) grew from 49,008 to 59,515 (primary city area). There is cross-over and overlap between sub-groups. An ELL learner may be at an ABL or GED learner level, but need English language & culture familiarization first. The ABL, GED and ELL population spans many age groups and ethnicities, but make up 15-20% of the overall Davidson Co. adult population (1 in 6). Learners can be categorized in the following groups: o Adult Basic learners (ABL) (less than a 6th grade ability level of reading and comprehension) o GED learners (above 6th grade skills but lack HS diploma or equivalent) o ELL learners (non-native English learners who may or may not be functionally literate in their own native language)

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MNPS dropouts: for the 09-10 school year: 640 dropouts; 08-09: 844 dropouts; 07-08: 1,119. Good news: fewer dropping out, but still 640 in most recent year. (*see APPX D) Providers Providers perform service relative to different reading levels and abilities and serve numerous and diverse populations throughout the city. Providers may not serve the learner that is their core competency, but may expand type of learner served to meet funding needs. Nashville Adult Literacy Council (NALC) serves some ABL learners, some GED learners, and some ELL learners. In 2010, they served 700 ABL learners, 100 GED learners, and 1000 ELL learners with revenues of approximately $459,000. Assuming some retained earnings from revenue, cost of roughly $225 per learner. To serve all 80,000 adults needing literacy assistance, NALC would need an additional $18-$20 million. (all 80,000 adults would have to be motivated or incentivized to seek help). Exact amount would vary depending on scale cost savings/increases. In sum, in a given year, an estimated 2,500 Adult Basic Learners receive service (adding NALC ABL and ELL adult figures & estimating services of some community providers that have ABL and ELL services whose data we dont have. This equates to (of the 55,000 ABL that need literacy 4.5% served each year). Nashville State and YWCA have GED contracts funded by the State of TN for Davidson Co. Nashville State has GED classes on campus and at satellite sites in the city. A number of GED non-profit community providers & MAC (city government) have classes and programs scattered throughout the county. Attainment rates vary by provider. Between 2008-2010, there were 2,022 GEDs earned for 3,311 practice tests taken, a 61% attainment rate city-wide for GED programs. (see APPX E broken down by age groups) 767 learners earned their GED in 2010. 618 earned in 2009. 637 earned in 2008. (Davidson Co.)

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767 out of 80,000 Davidson Co adults without a HS diploma or equivalent means: <1% of entire adult literacy population earns a GED of potential population each year. 3% of GED level population earns a GED each year (767/25,000) THEC does not connect GED data with postsecondary attainment but attainment of 767 GEDs earned per year, then looking 4 or 5 years later at associates, bachelors or certificates earned is bound to be lower. ELL services for adults are mainly provided through non-profit community providers and faith-based organizations throughout Davidson Co. Each year, with both ABL and GED learners served & actual literacy growth occurs, the overall impact rate is small. A portion of ABL and GED learners ADVANCE UP OR OUT OF the adult learner population. However, each year, HS dropouts and newly arrived immigrants ADD TO the adult learner population. The effect is that the overall adult learner population who needs some form of literacy learning doesnt really change year over year, and may be growing larger.
Every year, the adult literacy population is fed by ELL learners migrating to Nashville and HS dropouts. In 2010:

ELL learners

dropouts

Post-secondary? -AB, BA, certificate

2,500?

640

??

Even fewer GED graduates go on to get a postsecondary credential (bachelors, associates, certificate).

GED earners GED learners (25,000) Adult Basic Learners (ABL) (55,000)
Adult literacy population ABL and GED learners ELL learners are in both categories

767
ABL learners move up to GED literacy level Graduating out of the pool. In 2010, 767 earned a GED.

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Appendix A. US Census Bureau population figures

http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/STTable?_bm=y&-geo_id=16000US4752006&-qr_name=ACS_2009_5YR_G00_S1501&-ds_name=ACS_2009_5YR_G00_&-redoLog=false

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Appendix B. Adult Literacy providers

Site name Address City Brentwood Madison Nashville Nashville Nashville Nashville Nashville Nashville Nashville Nashville Nashville Nashville Nashville Nashville Nashville Nashville Nashville Nashville Nashville Nashville Nashville Nashville Nashville Madison Nashville Nashville Nashville Nashville Nashville Nashville Nashville Nashville Nashville Nashville Nashville Antioch Nashville Nashville Nashville Nashville Nashville Nashville Nashville Nashville Nashville Nashville Nashville State TN TN TN TN TN TN TN TN TN TN TN TN TN TN TN TN TN TN TN TN TN TN TN TN TN TN TN TN TN TN TN TN TN TN TN TN TN TN TN TN TN TN TN TN TN TN TN Zipcode Type Phone African Leadership PO Box 2888 Asocacion Latina 126 E. Due West Ave. Brook Hollow Baptist Church 678 Brook Hollow Rd. Catholic Charities @ Guadalupe, Plaza Comunitaria 3112 Nolensville Road Catholic Charities @ Refugees Center Comunitario Progreso 478 Allied Dr., Suite 107 Center for Refugees and Immigrants 295 Plus Park Blvd Conexion Americas 800 18th Ave S Edmondson Pike Public Library 5501 Edmonson Pike First Baptist Church 108 Seventh Ave. South Hillcrest United Methodist Church 5112 Raywood Ln Nashville Adult Literacy Council 4805 Park Ave Ste 211 Nashville Adult Literacy Council - Antioch 325 Rural Hill Rd #2 Nashville International Center for Empowerment (NICE) 3221 Nolensville Pike # 103 NICE @ Donelson Fellowship 3210 McGavock Pike Nashville State Community College 120 White Bridge Rd. Park Avenue Baptist Church 4300 Park Ave Safe Haven Family shelter 1234 3rd Ave S St Luke Community Center 5601 New York Ave Tennessee Foreign Language Institute 227 French Landing, Ste. 100 Thriftsmart 4890 Nolensville Pike TN Housing Development Agency 404 James Robertson, Suite 1200 Woodbine Community Center 222 Oriel Ave Asocacion Latina 126 E. Due West Ave. CWJ - Madison 106 Gallatin Pk CWJ - Nashville 128 8th Ave S Davidson County Sherriff Office 710 South St Goodwill Industries 1015 Herman St Martha O'Bryan Center 711 South Seventh Street Metropolitan Action Commission (MAC) 1624 5th Avenue North Monroe Harding (Youth Connections) 1330 Foster Ave Nashville Opportunities Industrialization Center (OIC)Circle North 460 10th Nashville Public Library (computer lab -self-paced) 615 Church St Nashville State Community College 4805 Park Ave Nashville State Community College - Beech Creek Baptist Ave 3101 Curtis Nashville State Community College - Living Word Community Church 5380 Hickory Hollow Pkwy Nashville State Community College - Trevecca Murfreesboro Pike 333 Pruitt Branch Library 117 Charles E. Davis Boulevard Room In the Inn 705 Drexel Street Salvation Army 631 Dickerson Rd Temple Beythel Hoshea Center 802 Arbor Creek Way TN Tech at Nashville Woodbine Community Center 222 Oriel Ave Ybuild 1262 Foster Ave. Scott #4 YWCA 1608 Woodmont Blvd YWCA - Bethlehem Center 1417 Charlotte Ave YWCA - Mt. Zion Baptist Church 2261 Murfreesboro Pike State of TN - Dept. of Corrections education (incarcerated persons) Co) multiple (4 - Davidson

37024 ELL provider 615-595-8238 x.235 37115 ELL provider 615-727-6584 37205 ELL provider 615-673-1851 37211 ELL/GED provider615-445-8310 x 221 ELL provider 615-259-3567 37211 ELL provider 615-332-8704 37217 ELL provider 615-366-6868 37203 ELL provider 615-320-5152 ext. 225 37211 ELL provider 615-880-3957, ext 229 37203 ELL provider 615-646-1815 37211 ELL provider 37209 ELL provider 615-298-8060 37217 ELL provider 615-298-8060 37211 ELL/GED provider615-315-9681 37214 ELL provider 615-315-9681 37209 ELL provider 615-353-3110 37209 ELL provider 615-297-5336 37210 ELL provider 615-256-8195 37209 ELL provider 615-350-7893 37228 ELL provider 615-741-7579 37211 ELL provider 615-268-7272 37243 ELL provider 615-815-2170 37210 ELL provider 615-850-3457 37115 GED provider 615-727-6584 37206 GED provider 615-578-6902 37203 GED provider 615-440-7526 37206 GED provider 615-862-8170 37208 GED provider 615-742-4151 37206 GED provider 615-254-1791 ext 217 37208 GED provider 615-862-8860 37210 GED provider 615-664-1509 ext 23 37203 GED provider 615-248-2906 37219 GED provider 615-862-5779 37209 GED provider 615-353-3110 37218 GED provider 615-353-3110 37209 GED provider 615-353-3110 37013 GED provider 615-353-3110 37210 GED provider 615-862-5985 37203 GED provider 615-251-9791 x200 37207 GED provider 615-242-0411 ext 238 37217 GED provider 615-566-9351 GED provider 615-425-5500 37210 GED provider 615-850-3457 37210 GED provider 615-372-9489 37215 GED provider 615 269-3180 37203 GED provider 615 269-3180 37217 GED provider 615 269-3180 GED provider Sharmila Patel

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Appendix C. GED providers A B C D E F G H I J K L Asocacion Latina CWJ - Madison CWJ - Nashville Davidson County Sherriff Office Martha O'Bryan Center Metropolitan Action Commission (MAC) Monroe Harding (Youth Connections) Nashville Opportunities Industrialization Center (OIC) Nashville Public Library (computer lab -self-paced) Pruitt Branch Library Room In the Inn Salvation Army State of TN - Dept. of Corrections (incarcerated persons) Temple Beythel Hoshea Center TN Tech at Nashville Woodbine Community Center Ybuild YWCA YWCA - Bethlehem Center YWCA - Mt. Zion Baptist Church

M N O P Q R S

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Appendix D. MNPS dropout report: tracked by last known zip code

zip 37207 37013 37211 37115 37206 37208 37209 37076 37210 37217 37218 37214 37216 37203 37138 37072 37221 37212 37204 37189 37205 37215 37080 37027 37143 37228 37015 37220 # dropout students age 14-18: 2010 78 71 71 60 37 41 31 32 21 31 22 26 20 21 17 14 13 7 10 5 3 1 2 3 2 0 0 1 # dropout students # dropout students age 14-18: 2009 age 14-18: 2008 99 151 89 145 85 106 86 88 53 96 54 74 46 52 44 48 39 57 38 47 39 45 28 35 20 41 19 26 16 31 26 23 17 14 10 14 11 8 6 7 5 2 6 2 3 2 1 2 1 0 1 2 1 1 1 0 total 328 305 262 234 186 169 129 124 117 116 106 89 81 66 64 63 44 31 29 18 10 9 7 6 3 3 2 2 cluster Hunter's Lane/White's Creek Antioch/Cane Ridge Overton/Glencliff Hunter's Lane Stratford Pearl-Cohn Pearl-Cohn/Hillwood McGavock McGavock/Glencliff Glencliff White's Creek McGavock Maplewood/Stratford Pearl-Cohn/Hillsboro McGavock Hunter's Lane Hillwood Hillsboro Hillsboro White's Creek Hillsboro middle schools

Jere Baxter Middle, Brick Church Middle, Haynes Middle Health/Medical Science, Antioch Middle, Apollo Middle, JF Kennedy Middle, Thurgood Marshall Middle Croft Middle Design Center, McMurray Middle, Henry Oliver Middle, Wright Midd Madison Middle, Neely's Bend Middle Bailey Middle, East Literature Magnet Middle & High, Meigs Middle Magnet John Early Middle, LEAD Academy W.A. Bass Middle Dupont Tyler Middle Margaret Allen Middle, Cameron Middle New Vision Academy I.T. Creswell Arts Middle Arts Magnet Donelson Middle, Two Rivers Middle Gra-Mar Middle, Isaac Litton Middle Head Middle Magnet, Rose Park Middle Math/Science Magnet Dupont Hadley Middle Goodlettsville Middle Bellevue Middle no middle schools JT Moore Middle no middle schools HG Hill Middle, West End Middle

Source: MNPS Data Office

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Appendix E. GED attainment figures

Tennessee
16-18 2008 Students receiving a Practice test GEDs Obtained 3,806 2009 3,593 2010 2,737 2008 5,069 19-24 2009 5,677 2010 4,902 2008 4,846 25-44 2009 11,541 2010 5,423 2008 714 45-59 2009 1,051 2010 944 2008 98 60 and older 2009 77 2010 82 2008 14,533 Totals 2009 21,939 2010 14,088

2,735

2,016

3099*

3,919

3,696

3,747

3,260

3,353

3,433

495

521

531

52

39

45

13,099

11,722

11,805

Davidson County
16-18 2008 Students receiving a Practice test GEDs Obtained 200 2009 170 2010 109 2008 361 19-24 2009 375 2010 312 2008 369 25-44 2009 779 2010 448 2008 42 45-59 2009 66 2010 65 2008 6 60 and older 2009 4 2010 5 2008 978 Totals 2009 1,394 2010 939 3 yr 3,311

103

76

146*

267

266

316

240

250

279

25

24

24

637

618

767

2,022

Attainment rate: 3 yr attainment

51.50% 37.37%

44.71%

73.96% 81.01%

70.93%

65.04% 48.18%

32.09%

62.28%

59.52% 42.20%

36.36%

36.92%

33.33% 40.00%

50.00%

40.00%

65.13%

44.33%

81.68%

61.07%

* This number reflects students that took the practice test in 2009 and the GED test in 2010

Source: UT Center for Literacy Studies

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