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Year: 2011 Publisher: [Washington, D.C.] : REL Southeast, National Center for Educational Evaluation and Regional Assistance, Institute of Education Sciences,
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Year: 2011 Publisher: [Washington, D.C.] : REL Southeast, National Center for Educational Evaluation and Regional Assistance, Institute of Education Sciences,
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Year: 2001 Publisher: Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corporation,
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In 1992, the U.S. Departments of Defense and Education created a new high school program aimed at encouraging at-risk youth to remain in school until graduation. The program is a marriage of the defense-sponsored Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps (JROTC) program and a comprehensive high school reform initiative referred to as career academies. This report focuses on an examination of the effects of the JROTC Career Academy program on student outcomes, including grades, attendance, and graduation. The authors found that grade-point averages for the JROTC Career Academy students were significantly higher than would have been expected if they had been in the standard academic program in six of ten cases. The differences in grade-point averages were generally substantial, with most in the range of one-quarter to one-half grade point. In seven of ten cases, absenteeism for the JROTC Career Academy students was significantly lower than what would have been expected if they had been enrolled in the standard academic program. These differences were dramatic, with absenteeism less than half of what would have been expected in a majority of cases. The major motivational factor that students in focus groups mentioned was the nurturing environment the JROTC Career Academy afforded them.
Career academies --- Children with social disabilities --- Education
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Year: 2017
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"The Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) program serves more than 550,000 high school students each year, many of whom are at risk for failing academically or dropping out of school. Although these programs are widely distributed--programs operate in 50 states, four U.S. territories, and Department of Defense Education Activity schools--there has been recent congressional interest in whether the schools participating in JROTC programs are representative with respect to geographic area, with a special focus on whether rural areas are adequately represented. In response to these interests and motivations, this study had two primary objectives: Examine the representativeness of JROTC at the school level with respect to geography and demographics and determine how federal laws and policies affect starting and sustaining JROTC units. RAND researchers merged JROTC program data with public high school data from the National Center for Education Statistics Common Core of Data to analyze demographic and geographic representativeness at the school level. Service and school representatives were interviewed on such topics as benefits of JROTC for the students, challenges with JROTC-unit administration, and instructor hiring. The authors found that JROTC has strong representation among schools with demographically diverse populations. However, geographically, JROTC is underrepresented in rural areas and in about two-thirds of states. A number of factors present challenges for improving representativeness, and the report offers several policy recommendations for addressing these factors, including the expansion of the National Defense Cadet Corps"--Publisher's description
Military education --- Career academies --- United States. --- Recruiting, enlistment, etc.
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Year: 1995 Publisher: Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corporation,
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Career academies --- Education, Cooperative --- Business and education --- United States.
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