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Burkhauser, Susan; Hanser, Lawrence M.; Hardison, Chaitra M. – RAND Corporation, 2014
The U.S. military services have traditionally used a tiering system, including education credentials such as high school diplomas, in combination with Armed Forces Qualification Test (AFQT) scores to help gauge the likelihood of a recruit persevering through his or her first term of service. But what about less traditional credentials, such as…
Descriptors: Military Personnel, Credentials, Secondary Education, Home Schooling
Teachman, Jay – Sociology of Education, 2007
This article uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to examine the relationship between service in the All Volunteer Force (AVF) military and educational attainment. Through the use of fixed-effects estimators, the author generated estimates of the effect of military service on the highest grade of school completed by men that…
Descriptors: Military Service, Educational Attainment, Armed Forces, Volunteers
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Cooke, Timothy W.; Quester, Aline O. – Social Science Quarterly, 1992
Examines the relationship between male U.S. Navy recruits' background characteristics and successful outcomes in the form of completion of obligated service, promotion, or retention. Concludes that high school graduates, recruits with higher test scores, African-American and Hispanic recruits, and those admitted through the Navy's Delayed Entry…
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Blacks, High School Graduates, Hispanic Americans
Price, Jay R. – 1970
This study sought information about selective service rejection in Delaware, specifically rejectee characteristics, reasons for rejection, and the high rejection rate in Delaware. The basic design was a modified case study method in which a sample of individual records were examined. Differences between this sample and national samples were tested…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Blacks, Dropouts, Expenditure per Student
La Puente Union High School District, CA. – 1968
Funded under Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, the La Puente, California, continuation education project investigated (1) attitudes of former students concerning the success of the school in preparing them for entry into military service, (2) the minimal skills and knowledge required by each of the armed forces, (3)…
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Continuation Students, Females, High School Graduates