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What's New?
The Web is always changing and evolving--new information is continually being added, new sites created, and new tools available. This is the spot for staying on top of this evolving world!
June 23, 1998
SCHOOL-TO-WORK
The report of the U.S. Department of Labor Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (the SCANS Report), released in 1991, examined the demands of the workplace and whether students in the nation's public schools were being prepared to meet those demands. One of the findings was that more than half of our students leave school without the foundation needed to find and hold a good job.
The School-to-Work Opportunities Act of 1994 was passed to improve the workforce preparation of the nation's students and to facilitate their successful transition from secondary school into the workplace. It provides funding for the "school-to-work" model of learning, which gives secondary students opportunities to develop skills and apply their classroom learning in a variety of working environments, which might include, for example, banks, hospitals, or local businesses.
The school-to-work model of learning has its roots in the apprenticeship approach, where youth were prepared for their future work in the community by learning a particular skill or trade under the guidance of an adult mentor. Today, through partnerships between secondary schools and local employers, students have adult mentors from whom they learn to apply knowledge in actual on-the-job responsibilities and problems.
The philosophy of school-to-work programs is to provide students with skills and experiences necessary for making well-informed career and educational choices rather than to prepare them primarily for specific jobs. Experiences at the work site give relevance to student learning and extend education beyond the classroom. Research shows that learning is most effective when it involves active participation. Consistent with this, studies of school-to-work programs show positive effects on participants, including increased motivation to learn, improved attitudes toward work, and greater acquisition of job-related competencies, including job search skills, interviewing, on-the-job performance, and human relations.
What's New on the Net identifies programs, studies and resources on the World Wide Web related to the school-to-work learning approach. The links include discussions of school-to-work programs, studies of these programs, suggestions for structuring them, resources for school-to-work learning, school-to-work legislation, and related publications and Web sites.
National School-to-Work Learning and Information Center Education and Work School-to-Work Transition School-to-Work Study of School-to-Work Initiatives National Center for Research in Vocational Education Center on Education and Work (University of Wisconsin, Madison) School-to-Careers School-to-Work Initiatives Around the Nation How to Structure a Work-based Learning Experience for Your Student Work-Based Learning Resource Center Council of Great City Schools: School-to-Work Cornell Youth and Work Program California's School-to-Career Net New York State School-to-Work Online The Secretary of Labor's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (1991
SCANS Report Introduction) Summary of the School-to-Work Opportunities Act of 1994
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