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

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

Published: Jul 07, 2000
Publisher: Princeton, NJ: Mathematica Policy Research
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Associated Project

Evaluation of the Job Corps Program

Time frame: 1993-2006

Prepared for:

U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration

Authors

Steven Glazerman

Peter Z. Schochet

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.

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