National Job Corps Study: The Impacts of Job Corpos on Participants' LiteracySkills. Final Report

摘要

Job Corps is a major part of federal efforts to provide education and jobtraining to disadvantaged youths. It provides comprehensive services: basic education, vocational skills training, health care and education, counseling, and residential support. More than 60,000 new students between the ages of 16 and 24 enroll in Job Corps each year, at an annual cost to the federal government of more than $1 billion. Currently, the program provides training at 119 Job Corps centers nationwide. The National Job Corps Study is being conducted under contract with the U.S. Department of Labor to provide Congress and program managers with the information they need to assess how well Job Corps attains its goal of helping students become employable, productive citizens. This report is one of a series presenting findings from the study. It presents estimates of the impacts of Job Corps on participants literacy and numeracy skills needed to function in the workplace. It builds on the analysis and findings presented in our report on short-term impacts (Schochet et al. 2000). That report relied on interview data collected at baseline, and at 12 and 30 months after random assignment.