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Peer reviewedRaffe, David – Oxford Review of Education, 1981
Presents sociological perspectives on the relationship of education to employment. Specifically examined are the relationship of educational qualifications to occupational status, education's effect on worker productivity, and the schools' role in creating desirable employees. The discussion incorporates data from the Youth Opportunities Programme…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Dropout Programs, Education Work Relationship, Educational Status Comparison
Download full textCave, George; Doolittle, Fred – 1991
JOBSTART, a federally funded demonstration program, offered basic education, occupational skills training, support services, and job placement assistance to young school dropouts. A study of the impacts of JOBSTART was designed to separate effects of the program from events attributable to other factors. A total of 2,312 people eligible for…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Basic Skills, Dropout Programs, Educational Attainment
Bennett, Barbara K.; And Others – 1993
The Youth Work Skills (YWS) program was developed to help economically disadvantaged, out-of-school, high school-aged youth with reading abilities at or below the fifth-grade level become job ready. In 1992-93, YWS served 236 participants at 7 sites throughout New York (two sites each in Brooklyn and Buffalo and sites in the Bronx, Rochester, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Annual Reports, Comparative Analysis
