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Pucel, David J. – 2001
This book provides a rationale, model, and procedures for implementing change in high schools. Focus is on adoption of applied, context-based, community-based education that eliminates competition between academic and vocational education and promotes cooperation in creating career-based education. Chapter 1 provides a review of how this type of…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Articulation (Education), Career Academies, Career Education
Download full textStern, David; Dayton, Charles; Raby, Marilyn – 2000
After more than three decades of development and two decades of evaluation, career academies have been found to be effective in improving the performance of students in high school, particularly for students at greatest risk. Career academies have become the most durable and best-tested component of a high school reform strategy that includes…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Academic Education, Articulation (Education), At Risk Persons
