Combining School and Work: Options in High Schools and Two-Year Colleges

摘要

American employers are seeking to achieve a faster rate of continuous improvement in methods for producing goods or providing services, in order to keep up with the faster pace of technological change and international competition. Such improvement requires employees who can adapt to new technology and devise new procedures that improve quality, lower cost, or reduce the time to respond to customers' demands. The report describes two sets of programs that respond to the challenge of preparing young people for a more learning-intensive workplace. One includes cooperative education, apprenticeship, and school-based enterprise, make deliberate use of work as part of the learning experience. The second includes vocational academies and tech-prep programs, which are reconstructing the high school curriculum to unite vocational with academic disciplines.