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The 2020 Youth Transition Report: Outcomes for Youth and Young Adults with Disabilities
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Cheng, L.; Shaewitz, D. – Institute for Educational Leadership, 2020
The 2020 Youth Transition Report underscores the persistent and pernicious gap between youth and young adults with disabilities and those without disabilities on measures of success in education, employment, and poverty. While data and reports exist for the working-age adult population and children with disabilities, the Institute for Educational…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Disabilities, Adolescents, Young Adults
The 2019 Youth Transition Report: Outcomes for Youth and Young Adults with Disabilities
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Cheng, L.; Shaewitz, D. – Institute for Educational Leadership, 2019
The Youth Transition Report presents data that underscore the gap between youth with disabilities and those without disabilities on measures of success in education and employment. While other reports present information about the working-age adult population and children with disabilities, there are no reports that specifically focus on the youth…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Disabilities, Adolescents, Young Adults
Socioeconomics, Diversity, and the Politics of Online Education. Advances in Mobile and Distance Learning (AMDL) Book Series. Premier Reference Source
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Setzekorn, Kristina, Ed.; Patnayakuni, Nainika, Ed.; Burton, Tina, Ed. – IGI Global, 2020
Education has until recently promoted social mobility, broad economic growth, and democracy. However, modern universities direct policy and resources toward criteria that exacerbate income inequality and reduce social mobility. Online education can make education more socially, geographically, temporally, and financially accessible, impacting the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Online Courses, Distance Education, Educational Technology
Examining Child Care Need among Military Families. Technical Report
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Gates, Susan M.; Zellman, Gail L.; Moini, Joy S. – RAND Corporation, 2006
This report documents the results of a survey of 1,137 active-duty military families, including activated Reservists, regarding child care use. These survey data were analyzed to estimate the relationship between individual family characteristics and installation characteristics and the probability that the family uses any nonparental child care,…
Descriptors: Probability, Family Characteristics, Quality of Life, Child Care
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
Performance Assessment for the Workplace. Volume I.
Wigdor, Alexandra K., Ed.; Green, Bert F., Jr., Ed. – 1991
This is the sixth and final report of the National Research Council's Committee on the Performance of Military Personnel on the Joint-Service Job Performance Measurement/Enlistment Standards (JPM) Project, a project designed to develop measures of performance for entry-level military jobs so that enlistment standards could be linked to performance…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Armed Forces, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Assessment