Education Matters: Insights on Education, Learning and Training in Canada, June 2009, Vol 6 No. 2
This article, published by Statistics Canada, looks at the association between reading proficiency as measured at age 15, and both high school graduation and participation in postsecondary education by age 19.
This presentation describes the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), an initiative of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) that aims to provide assessment of adult literacy in the information age.
Canada is one of 26 countries to be involved in the initiative.