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Does Training for the Disadvantaged Work?

Evidence from the National JTPA Study

By: Larry L. Orr

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Does Training for the Disadvantaged Work?

Evidence from the National JTPA Study

By: Larry L. Orr

The study is the first evaluation of a major ongoing national program that uses the classical experimental design of random assignment, measuring "what would have happened" by comparing people who entered Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) programs with those who didn't. After background information on JTPA, chapters look at benefit-cost analyses; enrollment; program impacts on target groups; impacts on the earnings of subgroups; and policy implications of the findings. Distributed by University Press of America. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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The Urban Insitute

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ISBN 10

0877666474

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9780877666479

Social Experiments

Evaluating Public Programs With Experimental Methods

By: Larry L. Orr

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Social Experiments

Evaluating Public Programs With Experimental Methods

By: Larry L. Orr

Intended to provide a basic understanding not only of how to design and implement social experiments, but also of how to interpret their results once they are completed, author Larry L. Orr's Social Experiments is written in a friendly, how-to manner. Through the use of illustrative examples, how-to exhibits and cases, and boldface key words, Orr provides readers with a grounding in the experimental method, including the rational and ethical issues of random assignment; designs that best address alternative policy questions; maximizing the precision of the estimates; implementing the experiment in the field; data collection; estimating and interpreting program impacts, costs, and benefits; dealing with potential biases; and the use and misuse of experimental results in the policy process. This book will be useful not only to those who plan to conduct experiments, but also to the much larger group who will, at one time or another, want to understand the results of experimental evaluations.

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284

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SAGE

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0761912959

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9780761912958

Bullets, Ballots, and Rhetoric

Confederate States Policy for the United States Presidential Contest

By: Larry E. Nelson

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Bullets, Ballots, and Rhetoric

Confederate States Policy for the United States Presidential Contest

By: Larry E. Nelson

Aspirations to "whoop" the North notwithstanding, Confederates set their hopes for independence not on the belief that they could defeat the North but on the hope that their armies could stave off defeat long enough for the North to weary of war. The South's single biggest opportunity to effect political change in the North was the presidential contest of 1864. If Lincoln's support foundered and the North elected a president with a more flexible vision of peace on the continent, the South might realize its dream of independence. In Bullets, Ballots, and Rhetoric, Larry Nelson vividly brings to life the complex state of Northern politics during the election year of 1863. He recounts fluctuations in the value of the dollar, draft resistance and riots, protests against emancipation, political defeats suffered by the Republicans in the elections of 1862, and growing discontent in the border states and Midwest. Nelson offers an insider's look at the administration of Jefferson Davis, as it looked for cracks in Northern unity and electoral opportunities to exploit. Bullets, Ballots, and Rhetoric is an engrossing account of a little-known facet of Civil War statecraft and politics.

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250

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University of Alabama Press

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0817350926

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9780817350925

Battle of Stones River

The Forgotten Conflict Between the Confederate Army of Tennessee and the Union Army of the Cumberland

By: Larry J. Daniel

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Battle of Stones River

The Forgotten Conflict Between the Confederate Army of Tennessee and the Union Army of the Cumberland

By: Larry J. Daniel

Three days of savage and bloody fighting between Confederate and Union troops at Stones River in Middle Tennessee ended with nearly 25,000 casualties but no clear victor. The staggering number of killed or wounded equaled the losses suffered in the well-known Battle of Shiloh. Using previously neglected sources, Larry J. Daniel rescues this important campaign from obscurity. The Battle of Stones River, fought between December 31, 1862, and January 2, 1863, was a tactical draw but proved to be a strategic northern victory. According to Daniel, Union defeats in late 1862 -- both at Chickasaw Bayou in Mississippi and at Fredericksburg, Virginia -- transformed the clash in Tennessee into a much-needed morale booster for the North. Daniel's study of the battle's two antagonists, William S. Rosecrans for the Union Army of the Cumberland and Braxton Bragg for the Confederate Army of Tennessee, presents contrasts in leadership and a series of missteps. Union soldiers liked Rosecrans's personable nature, whereas Bragg acquired a reputation as antisocial and suspicious. Rosecrans had won his previous battle at Corinth, and Bragg had failed at the recent Kentucky Campaign. But despite Rosecrans's apparent advantage, both commanders made serious mistakes. With only a few hundred yards separating the lines, Rosecrans allowed Confederates to surprise and route his right ring. Eventually, Union pressure forced Bragg to launch a division-size attack, a disastrous move. Neither side could claim victory on the battlefield. In the aftermath of the bloody conflict, Union commanders and northern newspapers portrayed the stalemate as a victory, bolstering confidence in the Lincoln administration and dimming the prospects for the "peace wing" of the northern Democratic Party. In the South, the deadlock led to continued bickering in the Confederate western high command and scorn for Braxton Bragg.

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LSU Press

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0807145173

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9780807145173

Microsoft Access Small Business Solutions

State-of-the-Art Database Models for Sales, Marketing, Customer Management, and More Key Business Activities

By: Teresa Hennig,Truitt L. Bradly,Larry Linson,Leigh Purvis,Brent Spaulding

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Microsoft Access Small Business Solutions

State-of-the-Art Database Models for Sales, Marketing, Customer Management, and More Key Business Activities

By: Teresa Hennig,Truitt L. Bradly,Larry Linson,Leigh Purvis,Brent Spaulding

Database models developed by a team of leading Microsoft Access MVPs that provide ready-to-use solutions for sales, marketing, customer management and other key business activities for most small businesses. As the most popular relational database in the world, Microsoft Access is widely used by small business owners. This book responds to the growing need for resources that help business managers and end users design and build effective Access database solutions for specific business functions. Coverage includes: Elements of a Microsoft Access Database Relational Data Model Dealing with Customers and Customer Data Customer Relationship Management Database Solutions Marketing Database Solutions Sales Database Solutions Producing and Tracking the Goods & Services Production and Manufacturing Database Solutions Inventory Management Database Solutions Services Database Solutions Tracking and Analyzing Financial Data 1 Accounting Systems: Requirements and Design Database Solutions Accounting: Budgeting, Analysis, and Reporting Database Solutions Managing Memberships Implementing the Models SQL Server and Other External Data Sources With this valuable guide and CD-ROM, you'll be on your way to implementing database solutions in no time

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915

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470640588

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9780470640586

Larry L. King

A Writer's Life in Letters, Or, Reflections in a Bloodshot Eye

By: Larry L. King

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A Writer's Life in Letters, Or, Reflections in a Bloodshot Eye

By: Larry L. King

Larry L. Kings life story.

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TCU Press

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0875652034

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9780875652030

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Does Training for the Disadvantaged Work?

Does Training for the Disadvantaged Work?

Social Experiments

Social Experiments

Bullets, Ballots, and Rhetoric

Bullets, Ballots, and Rhetoric

Battle of Stones River

Battle of Stones River

Microsoft Access Small Business Solutions

Microsoft Access Small Business Solutions

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