Career Academies
College & Workforce Readiness
Opinion
Boy-Friendly High Schools
I included career academies in my book. Another profile here, which indicates the appeal to boys.
College & Workforce Readiness
'Gainful Employment' Rule Proposal Draws Fire
The aim is to weed out postsecondary programs that leave students with big debts, but dim job prospects.
School Choice & Charters
Letter to the Editor
Career-Themed Academies Provide '21st-Century Skills'
To the Editor:
The "flak" over 21st-century skills creates a needless dividing line that has already been successfully crossed ("Backers of '21st-Century Skills' Take Flak," March 4, 2009). Across the country, students in career-themed academies are engaging in project-based learning and experiencing paid internships that combine both academic-content knowledge and work-skills training. Projects that are based on industry-authentic problems and behaviors lead to 21st-century-skill attainment practiced in the internships.
The "flak" over 21st-century skills creates a needless dividing line that has already been successfully crossed ("Backers of '21st-Century Skills' Take Flak," March 4, 2009). Across the country, students in career-themed academies are engaging in project-based learning and experiencing paid internships that combine both academic-content knowledge and work-skills training. Projects that are based on industry-authentic problems and behaviors lead to 21st-century-skill attainment practiced in the internships.
College & Workforce Readiness
Career Academies Seen to Pay Off in Higher Earnings
A 15-year research project found that students in career academies were no more likely to attend college than those in traditional high schools, but they earned more money by their mid-20s.
College & Workforce Readiness
Opinion
The Career Academy Story
Close study and evaluation, as seen in the research regarding career academies, can help inform and advance education policy, say J.D. Hoye and David Stern.
College & Workforce Readiness
Math, Science Academies Favored to Challenge Top-Tier Students
Yearlong research projects. Courses in quantum mechanics and vector calculus. These may sound like staples of the college experience, but such demands are also the norm at a particular brand of high school around the country: math and science academies, which offer students with superior talent in those subjects a demanding, highly concentrated academic environment.
College & Workforce Readiness
Vocational Programs Earn Mixed Reviews, Face Academic Push
When it comes to work readiness, no topic is more debated than the place of career and technical education in high schools.
College & Workforce Readiness
Engineering a Turnaround
Used to be that vocational training and a focus on academic studies were considered completely different means of education. But in Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee, the two go hand in hand.
College & Workforce Readiness
South Carolina Launches Career-Preparation Initiative
It has been a tough sell that took several years to make, but South Carolina lawmakers adopted a career education program this year that they hope will prepare the state—and its young people—for the needs of a rapidly shifting economy.
College & Workforce Readiness
New York City Offers Firefighting 101 at New High School
Cesar Guzman is one of 104 students attending the FDNY High School for Fire and Life Safety, which opened here in September and is jointly run by the city’s fire department and department of education.
Education
Standards Published for Career Academies
In the hope of boosting career academies’ standing as models of academic reform, a coalition has released a series of guidelines for those career-oriented schools-within-schools.
College & Workforce Readiness
Explainer
Dropouts
When students drop out of school, the course of their lives may be totally reset.
College & Workforce Readiness
Career Programs Offer Pay Boost, Study Says
Young men who graduate from career academies, a form of schooling launched in the 1960s to keep students from dropping out of high school and provide them with job skills, are rewarded with higher-paying jobs upon entering the workforce, according to a new study.
College & Workforce Readiness
Safe and Secure
Since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, student interest in school programs dealing with careers in law, public safety, and national security is on the rise.