Table of Contents

The Transition Problem and Proposed Solutions: Floundering Youth in the US Labour Market; Elements of School-to-Work Programmes. School-and-Work Programmes in Secondary Schools: Cooperative Education; Youth Apprenticeship; School-Based Enterprise; Non-School-Supervised Work Experience; New Findings from the NCRVE Longitudinal Study; Career Counselling and Job Placement; Mentoring. School-and-Work Programmes in Two-Year Colleges: Cooperative Education; Apprenticeship; Career Counselling and Job Placement. Relevance of Vocational Education to Subsequent Employment: High Schools and Secondary Vocational Centres; Two- Year Colleges and Proprietary Schools; Tech-prep: Bridging Secondary and Post-secondary. Programs for Out-of-School Youth. Strategic Choices.

About the Author

David Stern, Neal Finkelstein, James Stone, John Latting, Carolyn Dornsife