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Monday, October 21, 2002
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/10/2002102102t.htm Distance Education Attracts Older Women With Families and Jobs, a New Study Finds DAN CARNEVALE The U.S. Department of Education released a study on Thursday showing that older women with families and jobs were more drawn to undergraduate distance-education programs during the 1999-2000 academic year than were members of other groups. The report offers the most recent large-scale research into who enrolls in distance-education programs. Overall, about 7.6 percent of students taking college courses during the 1999-2000 academic year did so through distance education. Observers figure that the percentage has grown since then. (The study is available online. It can be viewed using Adobe Acrobat Reader, available free.)... http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2003154
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