Career Academies
Partnerships for Reconstructing American High Schools

David Stern (Author), Marilyn Raby (Author), Charles Dayton (Author)

9781555424886, Wiley

Hardback, published 28 September 1992

216 pages
24 x 16.1 x 2.1 cm, 0.476 kg

Provides step-by-step guidance for setting up career academies. Offers advice on staffing, budgeting, student selection, parent involvement, and how to build effective school-business partnerships

Part One: New Directions for High Schools
1. High School: Demand for a New Design
2. The Career Academy Model
3. Evolution of the Academy Movement
4. Evaluating the Academies
Part Two: Creating a Career Academy
5. Procedures, Problems, and Principles
6. Forging Partnerships Between Schools and Employers
7. Building on Local Strengths: Examples from Four Districts
Part Three: The Future
8. Academies and the Reconstruction of American High Schools

Subject Areas: Education [JN]