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How the Other Half Learns: Reorienting an Education System That Fails Most Students. Report
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Cass, Oren – Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, 2018
America's education system, from kindergarten through the state university, is designed to produce college graduates. Those who stop short of at least a community-college diploma are widely regarded as failures, or at least victims of a failed system. Yet most Americans fall into this category, and current trends offer little hope for improvement.…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Change, College Attendance, Dropouts
An Empirical Study of Decisions Involving Post-Secondary Vocational School Training. Volume I--Executive Summary. Final Report.
Olson, Lawrence S. – 1978
A study examined decisions involving private, postsecondary vocational schooling using three large, national sets of data (from the National Longitudinal Surveys) on males. Particular attention is paid to three target groups--inner-city and rural individuals and dropouts. Various equations were estimated using a life-cycle model of time allocation…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Educational Benefits, Inner City, Intelligence
An Empirical Study of Decisions Involving Post-Secondary Vocational School Training. Volume II--Technical Report. Final Report.
Olson, Lawrence S. – 1978
A study examined decisions involving private, postsecondary vocational schooling using three large, national sets of data (from the National Longitudinal Surveys) on males. Particular attention is paid to three target groups: inner-city and rural individuals and dropouts. Various equations were estimated using a life-cycle model of time allocation…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Educational Benefits, Inner City, Intelligence