Improving School-to-Work Transitions

Contents

Contents Contributors vii Chapter 1 Improving School-to-Work Transitions: Introduction 1 David Neumark Chapter 2 Transitions to Work for Racial, Ethnic, and Immigrant Groups 24 Deborah Reed, Christopher Jepsen, and Laura E. Hill Chapter 3 Participation in Career and Technical Education and School-to-Work in American High Schools 59 James R. Stone III and Oscar A. Aliaga Chapter 4 Do School-to-Work Programs Help the “Forgotten Half”? 87 David Neumark and Donna Rothstein Chapter 5 Learning by Doing Career Academies 134 David Stern, Christopher Wu, Charles Dayton, and Andrew Maul Chapter 6 The National Academy Foundation’s Career Academies: Shaping Postsecondary Transitions 169 Margaret Terry Orr, Thomas Bailey, Katherine L. Hughes, Gregory S. Kienzl, and Melinda Mechur Karp Chapter 7 Labor-Market Linkages Among Two-Year College Faculty and Their Impact on Student Perceptions, Effort, and College Persistence 210 Ann E. Person and James E. Rosenbaum Chapter 8 Smoothing the Transition from School to Work: Building Job Skills for a Local Labor Market 247 Nan L. Maxwell Index 283 ...