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Some students learn better if they can apply skills and knowledge to their lives. Youth apprenticeships are a way for students to work and gain skills in a chosen career field and earn money while still in high school. Youth apprenticeships are on a continuum of work-based learning that includes job…

The Swiss model of high school matches students with career employment, jobs, and education. The system offers lessons to how the U.S. might create partnerships between business and education and also make high school more interesting and engaging for students. © 2015 by PDK International.

The 62% of high school graduates who won't continue their education in a university this year are precisely the untapped resources the American economy needs, Ms. Packert avers. Apprenticeships offer a long-term solution to putting the economy back to work.

The authors school-to-career approach that inseparable from a strategy for high school reform. They feel that this proposal, which is based on their research and experience assisting schools, can accomodate the rising ambitions of adolescents and can also carry the reform banner of contextual experi…

The development of integrated instruction organized around broadly defined occupations - or a combination of occupations, social problems, and other engaging topics - provides the opportunity to create heterogeneous forms of schooling that are "separate but equal." Such a principled heterogeneity re…