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Download full textBryant, Alyssa N. – 2001
This digest discusses research on economic gains for community college students and explores whether a community college education serves to minimize the wage gap between women and men and between advantaged and disadvantaged groups. It summarizes research that supports the assertion that a community college education offers economic advancement…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Economic Impact, Economic Opportunities
Haas, Toni – 1992
This ERIC Digest reports on the educational aspirations of rural youth compared with students living in urban and suburban areas. Research indicates that in comparison to urban youth, rural young people felt their parents were much more supportive of their taking full-time jobs, attending trade schools, or entering the military rather than…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Academic Failure, Community Involvement, Dropouts
Wadsworth, M. E. J. – 1985
This study assesses the feasibility of predicting children's verbal attainment scores by examining mothers' education and parenting styles and children's experience of preschool. Data are derived from a group of 5,362 children born in England, Wales, and Scotland in March of 1946. The parenting styles have been studied from the time the parents'…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Early Experience, Educational Status Comparison, Foreign Countries
Brown, Bettina Lankard – 1999
Many studies have verified that education beyond high school results in higher earnings. The highest earnings benefits depend upon certification or degree achievement. Not obtaining a degree results in some penalty: individuals who have some college credit but no degree earn less than associate degree holders. Professional and vocational…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Degrees (Academic), Education Work Relationship, Educational Benefits
Fitzgerald, Louise F. – 1985
An enormous body of literature illuminates various facets of the relationship between education and employment. Views of the proper role of education have ranged from cultural transmission to societal transformation and individual development, to the current belief that it prepares for transition to adulthood, i.e., the movement from school to…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Black Employment, Education Work Relationship, Educational Benefits
Zarate, Narcisa – 1983
The Mexican American's education is affected by such societal factors as the (1) referent used to identify these Americans; (2) relationships created and affected by historical events; (3) access to participation in the educational process at the elementary, secondary, and post-secondary levels; (4) curriculum offering at all levels; and (5)…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Aspiration, Curriculum Problems, Educational Attainment
ERIC Clearinghouse on Urban Education, New York, NY. – 1981
This collection of essays examines the issues which affect the educational, social, and economic status of Asian Americans and Pacific Americans. The first paper by Florence Yoshiwara discusses the historical experiences and demographic characteristics of Japanese Americans, economic and educational stereotypes, and various multicultural and area…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Chinese Americans, Economic Factors, Educational Opportunities
