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Jean Grossman; Hannah Betesh; Blake Dohrn; Daniel Litwok; Jacob Klerman – MDRC, 2024
Job Corps is the largest and most comprehensive education and job training program in the United States for young people ages 16 to 24 who are not in school and are not working. To deepen the Job Corps program's ability to generate and use evidence to improve the labor market trajectories of eligible young people, this report discusses ways Job…
Descriptors: Job Training, Federal Programs, Program Evaluation, Educational Research
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Elise Chor; P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale; Teresa Eckrich Sommer; Terri Sabol; Lauren Tighe; Jeanne Brooks-Gunn; Hirokazu Yoshikawa; Amanda Morris; Christopher King – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Increasingly, parents of young children need postsecondary credentials to compete in the labor market and meet basic family needs. This study uses a quasi-experimental design to examine the effects of Career"Advance," a two-generation education intervention that offers postsecondary career training in healthcare for parents paired with…
Descriptors: Low Income Groups, Parents, Young Children, Federal Programs