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ESL teacher Jorge Saucedo leads a class about weather in his Fannin school classroom. Student Marina Baldez is a 30 year-old nurse from Mexico who can't be a nurse here until she masters English.

In the U.S., 36 million adults lack the basic literacy skills needed to land family-supporting jobs—they struggle to read a street sign, a pay stub, or a menu. Yet education programs for this group ...