For the most part, what we have seen is that adults who are today struggling with low literacy and essential skills for one reason or another—and certainly there are multiple factors—did not get from the school system what they needed.
Changes that are occurring in the Canadian school systems have been significant in trying to address the issue of the traditional academic approach to learning, the system that educated the adults who today struggle with those literacy and essential skills. An example might be some of the high school diplomas and the variations of diplomas that are available. An example that comes to mind, although it's not my area of expertise, is the high skills major, which offers individuals with a particular employment goal a diploma that helps to hone their skills around an employment goal in a broad job cluster or sector.
To answer your question, there is great effort to improve our K-12 results, and today I would say that we can look forward to youth down the road being in a different position from the adults of today who were in the more academic programs. We didn't serve their learning needs and their learning styles in the day that they were there.