Improving school-to-work transitions / David Neumark, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Neumark, David.

James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Career education--United States.

Career education.

United States.

School-to-work transition--United States.

School-to-work transition.

Physical Description:

viii, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2007]

Contents:

Improving school-to-work transitions / David Neumark

Transitions to work for racial, ethnic, and immigrant groups / Deborah Reed, Christopher Jepsen, and Laura E. Hill

Participation in career and technical education and school-to-work in American high schools / James R. Stone III and Oscar A. Aliaga

Do school-to-work programs help the "forgotten half"? / David Neumark and Donna Rothstein

Learning by doing career academies / David Stern, Christopher Wu, Charles Dayton, and Andrew Maul

The National Academy Foundation's career academies : shaping postsecondary transitions / Margaret Terry Orr, Thomas Bailey, Katherine L. Hughes, Gregory S. Krenzl, and Melinda Mechur Karp

Labor-market linkages among two-year college faculty and their impact on student perceptions, effort, and college persistence / Ann E. Person and James E. Rosenbaum

Smoothing the transition from school to work : building job skills for a local labor market / Nan L. Maxwell.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780871546425

0871546426

OCLC:

71275418