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Military Service and Educational Attainment in the All-Volunteer Era
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Teachman, Jay – Sociology of Education, 2007
This article uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to examine the relationship between service in the All Volunteer Force (AVF) military and educational attainment. Through the use of fixed-effects estimators, the author generated estimates of the effect of military service on the highest grade of school completed by men that…
Descriptors: Military Service, Educational Attainment, Armed Forces, Volunteers
What Characterizes Successful Enlistees in the All-Volunteer Force: A Study of Male Recruits in the U.S. Navy.
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Cooke, Timothy W.; Quester, Aline O. – Social Science Quarterly, 1992
Examines the relationship between male U.S. Navy recruits' background characteristics and successful outcomes in the form of completion of obligated service, promotion, or retention. Concludes that high school graduates, recruits with higher test scores, African-American and Hispanic recruits, and those admitted through the Navy's Delayed Entry…
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Blacks, High School Graduates, Hispanic Americans
Student Performance Requirements: Minitary Service. Continuation Education System Development Project.
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La Puente Union High School District, CA. – 1968
Funded under Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, the La Puente, California, continuation education project investigated (1) attitudes of former students concerning the success of the school in preparing them for entry into military service, (2) the minimal skills and knowledge required by each of the armed forces, (3)…
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Continuation Students, Females, High School Graduates