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School-to-Work for the College-Bound.
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Bailey, Thomas; Merritt, Donna – Centerfocus, 1997
The case can be made that school-to-work programs can be a college preparatory strategy because they can teach academic skills as well as and possibly even better than more traditional approaches. The skepticism about its potential as a means of preparing students for college is based on misconceptions about its characteristics. Its three basic…
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