Dr Tyler, I was particularly interested in a point made in the "...(GED)
Credential: History, Current Research, and Directions for Policy and
Practice." 

"A final lesson from this study [Murnane, Willet, and Boudett (1999)] is
that the one type of human capital investment in which a large
percentage of male GED recipients participated - off-the-job training -
did not result in higher wages. Off-the-job training in the study is
defined as government-sponsored training or training provided by a
proprietary school. Forty-one percent of the GED holders obtained some
off-the-job training, and the median amount of training time for those
who obtained any was 569 hours. However, this type of vocational
training had no measurable effect on their wages." (page 73) Later in
the article, the same non-effect is noted for female GED recipients in
another study. [Boudett (2000)]

 

Could you describe the types of programs referred to as "off-the-job
training", or name the training programs included in this or similar
studies? Does this include proprietary schools such as Sawyers' or
Catherine Gibbs? Does it refer to programs such as YouthBuild, CityYear
or Year Up? Does it include WIA Title I programs?

 

Concerning the programs it does refer to, or to which it can be inferred
to refer to, what if any reasonable policy decisions should be made
about referring learners from adult education programs to these
off-the-job training programs as next-steps? What if any reasonable
policy decisions should be made about funding these off-the-job training
programs?

 

Thank you for your response.

 

Howard Dooley

RIRAL

Woonsocket, RI

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