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Download full textHoutenville, A.; Bach, S.; Paul, S. – Institute on Disability, University of New Hampshire, 2023
The "Annual Report on People with Disabilities in America" is a companion volume to the "2023 Annual Disability Statistics Compendium" (ED628628) and "Supplement" (ED628631). Indicators were in the following areas of interest: employment, educational attainment, health and health care, financial status and security,…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Institutionalized Persons, Postsecondary Education, Employment Level
Ositelu, Monique O. – New America, 2020
Currently, an option of Pell Grant eligibility for the Second Chance Pell (SCP) experiment is priority given to students who will be released within 5 years of enrollment in the college program. Using the 2014 U.S. PIAAC Prison Survey, conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), this analysis evaluates the demographics of…
Descriptors: Grants, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Higher Education
Carnevale, Anthony P.; Campbell, Kathryn Peltier; Cheah, Ban; Fasules, Megan L.; Gulish, Artem; Quinn, Michael C.; Sablan, Jenna R.; Smith, Nicole; Strohl, Jeff; Barrese, Sarah – Postsecondary Value Commission, 2021
In this report, we present the results of a thought experiment in which we estimated the potential costs and benefits to society of achieving equality in educational attainment and related workforce outcomes by race/ethnicity, class, and gender. We conducted this thought experiment to clarify the role that education can play in reducing…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Equal Education, Educational Attainment, Ethnicity
Rampey, Bobby D.; Keiper, Shelley; Mohadjer, Leyla; Krenzke, Tom; Li, Jianzhu; Thornton, Nina; Hogan, Jacquie – National Center for Education Statistics, 2016
The U.S. PIAAC Survey of Incarcerated Adults was designed to provide policymakers, administrators, educators, and researchers with information to improve educational and training opportunities for incarcerated adults and foster skills they need in order to return to, and work successfully in, society upon release from prison. This report…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Adults, Work Experience, Correctional Education
CASAS - Comprehensive Adult Student Assessment Systems, 2018
The California Department of Education (CDE) provides adult literacy services to one-fifth of adults enrolled in the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act (AEFLA) program in the United States. The adult education program addresses literacy needs of individuals by providing adults with the skills and knowledge necessary to (a) gain employment or…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Federal Legislation, Labor Legislation
CASAS - Comprehensive Adult Student Assessment Systems, 2017
The California Department of Education (CDE) provides adult literacy services to one-fifth of adults enrolled in the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act (AEFLA) program in the United States. The adult education program addresses literacy needs of individuals by providing adults with the skills and knowledge necessary to (a) gain employment or…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Federal Legislation, Adult Literacy, Labor Force Development
Direct linkBauldry, Shawn; Korom-Djakovic, Danijela; McClanahan, Wendy S.; McMaken, Jennifer; Kotloff, Lauren J. – Public/Private Ventures, 2009
This report explores mentoring as a tool for supporting the successful reintegration of formerly incarcerated individuals within the context of a larger reentry strategy--in this case, the "Ready4Work" model. "Ready4Work" was a three-year national demonstration designed to address the needs of the growing ex-prisoner population and to test the…
Descriptors: Mentors, Job Placement, Adults, Vocational Rehabilitation
Peer reviewedSmith, Gary; And Others – Mental Retardation, 1996
Statistics are analyzed from 1990 to 1996 concerning the fading of Medicaid's bias toward institutionalization of individuals with mental retardation rather than use of Home and Community-Based (HCB) waivers for alternative community services and support. A major shift toward increased use of HCB waivers is noted and documented state by state. (PB)
Descriptors: Adults, Community Programs, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled), Group Homes
Greenberg, Elizabeth; Dunleavy, Eric; Kutner, Mark – National Center for Education Statistics, 2007
The 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL) assessed the English literacy of incarcerated adults for the first time since 1992. The assessment was administered to approximately 1,200 inmates (ages 16 and older) in state and federal prisons, as well as to approximately 18,000 adults (ages 16 and older) living in households. Three types of…
Descriptors: Correctional Institutions, Correctional Education, Adult Literacy, Institutionalized Persons
White, Carolyn C.; And Others – 1989
This report presents annual basic descriptive and longitudinal population statistics on people with mental retardation and related conditions in state-operated residential facilities in the United States. Part I presents data on numbers of persons with mental retardation and related conditions, including first admissions, readmissions, releases,…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Demography, Institutionalized Persons
Prouty, Robert, Ed.; Lakin, K. Charlie, Ed. – 1995
This report from the ongoing National Residential Information Systems Project provides statistics on persons with mental retardation and related developmental disabilities (MR/DD) receiving residential services in the United States for the year ending June 30, 1994, as well as comparative statistics from earlier years. An executive summary…
Descriptors: Adults, Community Programs, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled), Developmental Disabilities
Prouty, Robert, Ed.; Lakin, K. Charlie, Ed. – 1997
This report from the ongoing National Residential Information Systems Project provides statistics on persons with mental retardation and related developmental disabilities (MR/DD) receiving residential services in the United States for the year ending June 30, 1996, as well as comparative statistics from earlier years. Section 1 contains chapters…
Descriptors: Adults, Community Programs, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled), Developmental Disabilities
Minnesota State Planning Agency, St. Paul. – 1982
This two-volume compilation of 21 papers discusses issues stemming from the Welsch versus Likins suit (1974). The suit led to the 1980 Welsch-Noot consent decree requiring the State of Minnesota to reduce the overall population of mentally retarded persons residing in state institutions by nearly one-third over 6 years. The 11 papers in Volume I…
Descriptors: Adults, Agency Cooperation, Behavior Problems, Community Programs
Prouty, Robert, Ed.; Lakin, K. Charlie, Ed. – 1996
This report from the ongoing National Residential Information Systems Project on Residential Services provides statistics on persons with mental retardation and related developmental disabilities (MR/DD) receiving residential services in the U.S. for the year ending June 30,1995, as well as comparative statistics from earlier years. The report…
Descriptors: Adult Foster Care, Adults, Children, Community Programs
