Improving school-to-work transitions
By: David Neumark, editor.
Contributors: Neumark, David.
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780871546425
Subjects: Career education -- United States.; School-to-work transition -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Improving school-to-work transitions; title: Transitions to work for racial, ethnic, and immigrant groups; title: Participation in career and technical education and school-to-work in American high schools; title: Do school-to-work programs help the "forgotten half"?; title: Learning by doing career academies; title: The National Academy Foundation's career academies : shaping postsecondary transitions; title: Labor-market linkages among two-year college faculty and their impact on student perceptions, effort, and college persistence; title: Smoothing the transition from school to work : building job skills for a local labor market.