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Graves, Bill – School Administrator, 1992
Flipping burgers, operating cash registers, and stocking shelves are unchallenging, dead-end jobs that hinder high school students' academic success. U.S. industry has been using advanced technology to dumb-down jobs. Efforts of states and school administrators to restrict teen labor are discussed. Sidebars present innovative state initiatives for…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Child Labor, Education Work Relationship, High Schools
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Direct linkChristie, Hazel; Munro, Moira; Wager, Fiona – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2005
This article explores the experiences of widening access students at two prestigious universities in Scotland. It is based on interview data collected from a small sample of young and mature students who had all attended a widening access course prior to coming to university. The analysis centres on the students' construction of themselves as…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Interviews, Access to Education
Download full textBrewer, David – Employment and Disability Institute, 2004
If the lives of adults with disabilities are any measure of the impact of decades of special education, there are serious problems that must addressed. The employment rate among adults with disabilities, for instance, remains low. If a group of students choose paid employment as a goal for adult life, would not those same students want their…
Descriptors: Disabilities, High School Students, High School Graduates, Student Employment
