Adult Education Matters. 
Because you do.

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Did you know that Michael J. Fox has a GED credential? He does. So does Olympic gold-medal winner Mary Lou Retton and Delaware Governor Ruth Ann Minner. Here are some more GED recipients: 
  • Michael J. Fox, Actor and Advocate
  • Ruth Ann Minner, Governor of Delaware
  • Mary Lou Retton, Olympic Medal-Winner
  • Dave Thomas, Founder of Wendy's
  • F. Story Musgrave, NASA Shuttle Astronaut
  • Bill Cosby, Comedian and Actor
  • Honorable Greg Mathis, U.S. District Court Judge
  • Gretchen Wilson, Country Music Musician
  • Richard Carmona, Former U.S. Surgeon General
  • Wally Amos, Founder of Famous Amos Cookies
Beyonce was spotted stepping out of her limo in New York and entering the W. 35th Street Alternative Education Complex — aka GED school!

Lady B carried a laptop and used her back-to-school Lisa Frank binder to repell the paparazzi.

Bey dropped out of school when she was 15 to hit the road with Destiny's Child. Papa Knowles made his cash cow daughter continue her studies after she dropped out, but she never actually got her high school diploma.

Some Facts about Adult Literacy

The U.S. Department of Education issued an estimate of the literacy skills of adults in the 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy. Performance is rated on the following scale: Below Basic, Basic, Intermediate and Proficient. Overall, it is estimated that 93 million U.S. adults have Basic and Below Basic literacy skillsii. This study and others found: 

Adults living in poverty were more likely to have lower average literacy scores than adults with higher incomes. 
  • Half of the adults who did not have a high school diploma performed in the Below Basic levels. 
  • The more than one million incarcerated adults in the nation had lower average literacy scores than adults in households on nearly every comparable scale (age, gender, educational attainment level, ethnicity). 
  • Foreign-born adults who came to the United States at age 19 or older are more likely to have lower English literacy skills than those who came at age 11 or younger. In 2003, 11 million adults in the United States were non-literate in Englishiv and 22 million adults spoke English less than “very well”. 

Literacy skills impact every aspect of adult life. Adults who are more literate are more likely to: 
  • Read to their children and discuss school topics; 
  • Be employed full time and receive a higher income; 
  • Use the Internet and email; 
  • Vote, volunteer, and access information about current local and national events. 
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