Examines career-related programmes in American secondary schools and two- year further education colleges. As well as reviewing evidence on the effectiveness of vocational coursework, this text analyses programmes involving students who study and work simultaneously, as in youth apprenticeships.

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.

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