Submitted by Diane Demee-Benoit on November 21, 2007 - 15:12.
Career academies started over 35 years ago as a high school reform effort -- breaking large comprehensive high schools into more personal small-learning communities. A key feature of career academies is linking academics with a career focus. The curricula and strategies employed prepare students for both college and career. Most career academies are smaller "schools-within-a-school," although there are a growing number of high schools that are "wall-to-wall" academies.
For more information about career academies, read the article with accompanies this video. Just click on "more to this story" (just above the video player.) Edutopia has another video/article on a biotech academy which you'll find at http://www.edutopia.org/biotech-academy-challenging-assumptions-and-changing-lives
A great place to learn more about career academies is the Career Academy Support Network (CASN) Web site at http://casn.berkeley.edu/index.html.
Dear Tammy,
Submitted by Diane Demee-Benoit on November 21, 2007 - 15:12.
Career academies started over 35 years ago as a high school reform effort -- breaking large comprehensive high schools into more personal small-learning communities. A key feature of career academies is linking academics with a career focus. The curricula and strategies employed prepare students for both college and career. Most career academies are smaller "schools-within-a-school," although there are a growing number of high schools that are "wall-to-wall" academies.
For more information about career academies, read the article with accompanies this video. Just click on "more to this story" (just above the video player.) Edutopia has another video/article on a biotech academy which you'll find at http://www.edutopia.org/biotech-academy-challenging-assumptions-and-changing-lives
A great place to learn more about career academies is the Career Academy Support Network (CASN) Web site at http://casn.berkeley.edu/index.html.