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Berk, Jillian; Kahn-Lang Spitzer, Ariella; Stein, Jillian; Needels, Karen; Geckeler, Christian; Paprocki, Anne; Gutierrez, Ivette; Millenky, Megan – Mathematica, 2020
Many youth in America are not on track for labor market success. One factor that increases the risk of poor labor market outcomes among these youth is dropping out of school (Rumberger 2020). Youth who drop out of school are at greater risk for job instability and for lower longterm earnings (Hair et al. 2009). They are also more likely to…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Youth Programs, Armed Forces, Residential Programs
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Levitan, Sar A. – Monthly Labor Review, 1975
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Innovation, Educational Programs, Federal Programs
Leland, Lyle L. – 1974
A systems approach is applied to the assessment of the Model 4 project (administered by Mountain-Plains Education and Economic Development Program, Inc.), a residential career education program for rural, multiproblem families in the States of Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming. The program involves three phases of…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Education, Career Exploration, Curriculum Evaluation
Carroll, Stephen J.; And Others – 1971
In June 1969, The Rand Corporation was funded by the Office of Economic Opportunity to evaluate an experimental commuter program operated by the Los Angeles Women's Job Corps Center (LAWJCC). An earlier report has described the evaluation design [ED 052 372]. This report presents the results of the empirical analysis. In the interest of deriving…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Basic Skills, Cognitive Development, Economically Disadvantaged
Burghardt, John; Schochet, Peter Z. – 2001
The question of whether the Job Corps's impacts on students' employment and related outcomes differ according to the characteristics of the Job Corps center attended was examined. The study sample consisted of approximately 9,400 program group members and 6,000 control group members who were randomly selected from among the nearly 81,000…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Counseling Services, Delivery Systems, Differences