National Job Corps Study: The Impacts of Job Corps on Participants' Literacy Skills

Steven Glazerman, Peter Z. Schochet and John Burghardt

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Abstract: Estimates the impacts of Job Corps on participants' prose, document, and quantitative literacy, which are typically weak for youth entering the program. Finds positive impacts in all three domains and across most key groups of students.

Keywords: Job Corps; Literacy Skills (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 113
Date: 2000-07-07
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