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Miller, Kevin; Vagins, Deborah J. – American Association of University Women, 2018
Updated regularly with the most current statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Census Bureau, "The Simple Truth about the Gender Pay Gap" is a commonsense guide that provides key facts about the gender pay gap in the United States. Topics covered in the report include: the definition of the pay gap and its history; the…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Gender Bias, Salaries, Wages
Brown, Kay E. – US Government Accountability Office, 2012
Research shows that well trained and educated early child care and education (ECCE) workers are key to helping children in care reach their full developmental potential. Federal and state governments spend billions of dollars each year to improve ECCE programs, including the quality of its caregivers and teachers. Because of the importance of this…
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Caregivers, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers
Lounsbury, Susan; Datubo-Brown, Christiana – Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2019
The SREB Fact Book on Higher Education includes data on the population and economy, enrollment, degrees, student tuition and financial aid, faculty and administrators, revenue and expenditures. With more than 100 tables of detailed information, the Fact Book is one of the nation's most respected and most comprehensive collections of comparative…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Geographic Regions, Adults, Academic Degrees
Hollenbeck, Kevin; Huang, Wei-Jang – W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2008
The Commonwealth of Virginia, as with other states, operates a panoply of programs whose objectives, either directly or indirectly, are to develop the state's workforce. Some programs enhance the skills of Virginians through training or formal education; whereas other programs, such as the Employment Service, attempt to facilitate the employment…
Descriptors: Human Capital, State Government, Employment Services, Employment Programs
Hollenbeck, Kevin; Timmeney, Bridget – W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2009
Findings from an evaluation of a workplace literacy program funded by the State of Indiana are presented. Working with employers, providers were given considerable latitude to design their own training regimens. The state awarded certificates to workers who achieved certain levels of proficiency in reading, math, critical thinking, problem solving…
Descriptors: Productivity, College Attendance, Workplace Literacy, Computer Literacy
Marks, Joseph L.; Diaz, Alicia A. – Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2009
The "Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) Fact Book on Higher Education" is one of the nation's most comprehensive collections of comparative data on higher education. For decades, state leaders, policy-makers, researchers and journalists have used the "Fact Book" to find useful data quickly--and to learn more about…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Universities, Technical Institutes, Tuition