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Download full textVan Horn, Barbara L.; Kassab, Cathy – Center for Rural Pennsylvania, 2011
Dropping out of high school seriously impacts an individual's job opportunities, income potential and employment stability. To minimize those risks, individuals can earn a General Educational Development (GED) credential. Researchers have studied the impact of obtaining a GED on candidates' lives and found that the credential affects their…
Descriptors: Credentials, Educational Needs, Home Study, Public School Adult Education
Miller, Richard E. – 1979
The Rural Income Maintenance Experiment (1979) used sample subjects from the Midwest and the South (Iowa and North Carolina) to measure the effect of alternative tax rates and minimum guarantees upon the work behavior of rural male heads of households. Three contingent aspects of job change behavior were examined: the impacts of support on…
Descriptors: Blacks, Career Change, Comparative Analysis, Guaranteed Income
Lyons, Paul R.; DeCarlo, James F. – 1983
An exploratory study examined the job and life satisfaction of a sample of 32 female entrepreneurs residing in the tri-state area of Maryland, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. To compare the entrepreneurs' concepts of life and job satisfaction to those of women in more traditional occupations, researchers also studied a sample of 32 female nursing…
Descriptors: Adults, Comparative Analysis, Entrepreneurship, Females
Peer reviewedWillits, Fern K.; And Others – Rural Sociology, 1978
A panel of 2,081 Pennsylvania migrants and nonmigrants from rural areas were first surveyed as high school sophomores in 1947 and again in 1971. With education and socioeconomic background controlled, male migrants were more likely than nonmigrants to achieve high income and prestigious jobs. (EDE)
Descriptors: Achievement, Job Satisfaction, Longitudinal Studies, Migrants
Fliegel, Frederick C. – 1966
To identify some major differences among low-income farmers, and delineate that group representing the real core of the persistently poor, data were obtained from 189 farm operators representing a stratified random sample in Fayette County, Pennsylvania in 1957. The five main categories of individuals identified were: (1) the aged, (2) the…
Descriptors: Aspiration, Farmers, Individual Characteristics, Job Satisfaction
Pennsylvania State Education Association, Harrisburg. – 1985
This Pennsylvania project aimed to assess whether or not there are differences in educational opportunities for students and teachers in districts of varying size and wealth. After preliminary interviews with 182 teachers in 17 districts, a survey was distributed to 4,470 teachers--30 teachers in each of the 149 selected school districts. A total…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Community Support, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Assessment
Miron, Gary; Nelson, Christopher; Risley, John – 2002
In 2001, the Pennsylvania Department of Education contracted with Western Michigan University to evaluate Pennsylvania's charter schools and charter school initiative over two years. The study used site visits, work sample review, document review, focus groups, portfolios and surveys to gather data regarding the movement's effectiveness, progress,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Accountability, Charter Schools
