Career Academies: Partnerships for Reconstructing American High Schools / Edition 1

by David Stern, Marilyn Raby, Charles Dayton

Overview

Provides step-by-step guidance for setting up career academies. Offers advice on staffing, budgeting, student selection, parent involvement, and how to build effective school-business partnerships

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781555424886
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	11/11/1992
Series:	Education-Higher Education Series
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	6.34(w) x 9.43(h) x 0.83(d)
Age Range:	3 Months

About the Author

DAVID STERN is professor of education at the University of California, Berkeley.

Table of Contents

Part One: New Directions for High Schools
1. High School: Demand for a New Design
2. The Career Academy Model
3. Evolution of the Academy Movement
4. Evaluating the Academies
Part Two: Creating a Career Academy
5. Procedures, Problems, and Principles
6. Forging Partnerships Between Schools and Employers
7. Building on Local Strengths: Examples from Four Districts
Part Three: The Future
8. Academies and the Reconstruction of American High Schools

Editorial Reviews

For policy makers, administrators, and teachers, the authors explain the design and functioning of the career academy--a school-within-a- school that focuses on career preparation--and show how it integrates academic and vocational curriculum, raises student ambitions, increases career options, and provides a meaningful learning context for both potential dropouts and the college bound. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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