Shut Out of the Military: Today's High School Education Doesn't Mean You're Ready for Today's Army. K-12 Policy

Autor/in	Theokas, Christina
Institution	Education Trust
Titel	Shut Out of the Military: Today's High School Education Doesn't Mean You're Ready for Today's Army. K-12 Policy
Quelle	(2010), (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Quantitative Daten; Secondary Education; High School Graduates; Armed Forces; Vocational Aptitude; Minority Groups; Minority Group Students; Hispanic Americans; African Americans; Educational Opportunities; Scores; Aptitude Tests; District of Columbia; Hawaii; Louisiana; Massachusetts; Mississippi; Armed Forces Qualification Test; Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sekundarbereich; High school; High schools; Graduate; Graduates; Oberschule; Absolvent; Absolventin; Military; Militär; Ausbildungseignung; Berufseignung; Ethnische Minderheit; Hispanic; Hispanoamerikaner; Afroamerikaner; Bildungsangebot; Bildungschance; Aptitude test; Eignungsprüfung; Eignungstest; Master-Studiengang
Abstract	Many educators comfortably embrace the myth that the military will enlist any and all high school graduates who are interested. However, a new analysis from The Education Trust reports that too many of the nation's high school graduates have not been adequately prepared to serve in the U.S. Army. In "Shut Out of the Military," the first-ever public analysis of the Army's Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB), Ed Trust finds that more than one in five young people interested in enlisting do not meet the minimum eligibility standard required for the Army (as measured by the Armed Forces Qualification Test, comprised of four academic subtests of the ASVAB). The picture of American education grows even more unflattering when examining the performance of minority students. Based on these tests, 29 percent of Hispanic Army applicants and 39 percent of African Americans were found ineligible. Furthermore, when minority candidates did gain entry into the armed services, they achieved lower scores on average than their white peers. These ratings exclude them from higher level educational, training, and advancement opportunities provided by the Army. In addition to examining national data, "Shut Out of the Military" makes a state-by-state comparison of applicant performance. Among its findings: 30 percent or more of Army applicants in Hawaii, Louisiana, Mississippi and Washington, D.C. scored too low to enlist. And in the normally high-performing state of Massachusetts, over 40 percent of Hispanic applicants were ineligible for enlistment. A table for ASVAB ineligibility rates across states, disaggregated by race/ethnicity is appended. (Contains 2 tables, 3 figures and 7 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10