Career academies
Subtitle: partnerships for reconstructing American high schools
By: David Stern, Marilyn Raby, Charles Dayton.
Contributors: Raby, Marilyn, 1937-; Dayton, Charles, 1943-
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: The Jossey-Bass education series
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 1992
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
Subjects: Career academies -- Case studies.; Career academies -- California -- Case studies.; Education, Cooperative -- Case studies.; Education, Cooperative -- California -- Case studies.
Description: This book explains the unique design and functioning of the career academy - a vigorous school-within-a-school that focuses on career preparation - and shows how it goes beyond traditional vocational programs to integrate academic and vocational curriculum, raise student ambitions, increase career options, and provide a meaningful learning context for both potential dropouts and college-bound youth. The authors provide education policy makers, administrators, and teachers with step-by-step guidance for setting up career academies. Drawing on their extensive experience in researching, administering, and evaluating career academies over the past decade, the authors offer advice on handling staffing, budgeting, student selection, and parental involvement. They explain how to build effective school-business partnerships by recruiting employers to serve as curriculum advisers, speakers, field trip hosts, and student job supervisors. And they use examples of thriving academy programs to illustrate how career academies are leading the way in bringing rigor and relevance back to the classroom.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-184) and index.