A major key to success for TTW would be increasing consumer choice and establishing a competitive market for return-to-work services. State vocational rehabilitation agencies long had been the dominant players in this field, but under TTW, a wide variety of private and public entities can...

This presentation at the American Educational Research Association symposium, "Learning About Adult Education: A Decade of Measurement," discusses exploratory work on why people do or do not choose to participate in adult education.

Describes the program, framework and design for the national evaluation, and data and methods to be used in the implementation and impact studies.

Assesses the feasibility of estimating the impacts of the program, which helps disadvantaged middle school and high school students prepare for, apply to, get financial aid for, and begin attending college. Examines three evaluation options: 1) estimating impacts of the program as a whole in the...

Describes the program, framework and design for the national evaluation, and data and methods to be used in the implementation and impact studies.

The first-year findings reveal that while the 21st Century Community Learning Centers changed where and with whom students spent some of their after-school time and increased parental involvement, they had limited influence on academic performance, no influence on feelings of safety or on the...

Describes the program, framework and design for the national evaluation, and data and methods to be used in the implementation and impact studies.

A major key to success for TTW would be increasing consumer choice and establishing a competitive market for return-to-work services. State vocational rehabilitation agencies long had been the dominant players in this field, but under TTW, a wide variety of private and public entities can...