Improving school-to-work transitions -- Transitions to work for racial, ethnic, and immigrant groups -- Participation in career and technical education and school-to-work in American high schools -- Do school-to-work programs help the "forgotten half"? -- Learning by doing career academies --...

"Minority youth unemployment is an enduring economic and social concern. This book evaluates two new initiatives for minority high school students that seek to cultivate marketable job skills. The first is an after-school program that provides experiences similar to apprenticeships, and the...

Acknowledgments -- Foreword / John Fallon, CEO, Pearson -- Preface -- The context -- How did we get here? a history of education and training in the united states -- Organization for economic cooperation and development (oecd) better skills, better jobs, better lives -- Educational providers --...