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Informationen zum Autor DAVID STERN is professor of education at the University of California, Berkeley. Klappentext Career Academies 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.This book provides step-by-step guidance for setting up career academies. It offers advice on handling staffing, budgeting, student selection, and parent involvement. It explains how to build effective school-business partnerships by using employers as curriculum advisers, speakers, field trip hosts, and student job supervisors. Zusammenfassung Provides step--by--step guidance for setting up career academies. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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
