Partnerships make adult literacy 'shine' in Oregon, analysis finds.

Report on Literacy Programs, November, 2004

The state of Oregon has crafted an adult education and literacy system that could be the envy of the nation, a new installment in a continuing series of reports on state adult education programs reports.

At the same time, the state is facing new challenges in funding and demographics that will put the well-developed system to the test, according to the report from the Council for Advancement of Adult Literacy (CAAL).

"Who, in this day and age, would imagine that something as wonderful as Oregon Shines is possible, that government could be so truly democratic in impulse, that a process, top to bottom, could be so all-inclusive?" asks CAAL President Gail Spangenberg in a foreword to the report.

Oregon is one of just 13 states that puts...