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Direct linkAudas, Gary W., Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This investigation focused on the disempowerment of adult literacy learners touched by traumatic events caused by an array of factors such as emotional, physical, and sexual abuse, neglect, homelessness, and poverty. The investigator will analyze "ged.com pretest" scores (pretest and posttest) for Cohen's d effect size in specific…
Descriptors: Nonprofit Organizations, Trauma Informed Approach, High School Equivalency Programs, Adult Learning
Download full textRudd, Timothy; Rodriguez, Jonathan; Greenberg, David – MDRC, 2016
Family Rewards was an innovative approach to poverty reduction in the United States that was modelled on the conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs common in lower- and middle-income countries. The program offered cash assistance to poor families to reduce immediate hardship, provided they met certain criteria related to family health care,…
Descriptors: Rewards, Poverty, Employment, Family Programs
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Health, Education, and Human Services Div. – 1995
This document presents findings of a General Accounting Office (GAO) study that identified approaches and Aid to Dependent Children (AFDC) program activities that help teenage mothers complete their secondary education. Data were obtained from visits to 13 local programs in New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Vermont, and Wisconsin and…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Attendance Patterns, Birth Rate, Births to Single Women
Hadley, Carolyn – 1989
This report records the accomplishments of single parent/homemaker vocational education programs in California, mandated by the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act of 1984. These programs assist single parents/homemakers in their progress from poverty and public assistance toward personal empowerment and economic self-sufficiency. The report…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Community Programs, Demonstration Programs
Lyter, Deanna – 2002
A summary of recent research shows that more than 11.5 million children lived in poverty in 2001 and likely will experience long-term negative effects of poverty, such as dropping out of high school, compromised physical growth and cognitive development, and reduced physical and psychological well-being as an adult. Improving the home life of…
Descriptors: Adults, At Risk Persons, Educational Needs, Educational Policy
Schneider, Jo Anne – 1997
The Social Network Study was conducted in 1996 as part of a larger research project that looked at the experience of men and women with different racial, ethnic, educational backgrounds, and career paths in the Philadelphia labor market. Data were gathered through a survey focused on the relationship between work experience, training, and the…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Employment Programs, High School Equivalency Programs, Incentives
