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Child Development: With Implications for Working with Disadvantaged Children and Their Families. Description of Teacher Inservice Education Materials.

National Education Association, Washington, DC. Project on Utilization of Inservice Education R & D Outcomes. – 1977

The learning module cluster described here attempts to heighten teachers' awareness of the effects of cultural deprivation upon childhood development and the subsequent effects on learning. The product intends to guide teachers in developing competency in dealing with these adverse effects. This descriptive report provides information on the…

Descriptors: Child Development, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth, Individualized Instruction

National Job Corps Study: The Benefits and Costs of Job Corps.

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McConnell, Sheena; Glazerman, Steven – 2001

A benefit-cost analysis of the Job Corps program compared groups randomly assigned to either enroll in the program or to constitute a control group that did not enroll. Youth who participated in the study were those found eligible for Job Corps nationwide between November 1994 and February 1996. Interviews with participants and the assignment of…

Descriptors: Adolescents, Cost Effectiveness, Crime, Crime Prevention

National Job Corps Study: The Impacts of Job Corps on Participants' Employment and Related Outcomes [and] Methodological Appendixes on the Impact Analysis.

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Schochet, Peter Z.; Burghardt, John; Glazerman, Steven – 2001

A study involving random assignment of all youth eligible for Job Corps to either a Job Corps program or to a control group was conducted to assess the impact of Job Corps on key participant outcomes. Participants in the study were nationwide youth eligible for Job Corps who applied for enrollment for the first time between November 16, 1994, and…

Descriptors: Adolescents, Cost Effectiveness, Crime, Crime Prevention