Technological advances and other di

Technological advances and other discoveries place greater demands on organizations to provide basic education and specific job skills. The Bureau of Labor Statistics indicates that a significant proportion (about 30 percent) of new entrants to the workforce will be high school dropouts (approximately 700,000 per year) or immigrants with inadequate language and education skills. Approximately 30 million workers are considered illiterate. To correct this problem about 50 percent of U.S. companies with-100or more employees offer some form of basic remedial education, and the majority-say their -programs are only moderately or somewhat successful.IlliteracyThe percentage of employees who are unable to read and write any language is increasing even though the percentage of students who finish grade school has increased. Finishing grade school and even high school is no guarantee that a student knows how to read an write or perform simple computations. Consider the following.