Download or read book Implementing High School JROTC Career Academies written by Lawrence M. Hanser and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 2000 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1992, the U.S. Departments of Defencse and Education joined together to create a high school program aimed at encouraging at-risk youth to remain in school until graduation. The program is a marriage of the defense-sponsored Junior Resrve Officer's Training Corps (JROTC) program and a comprehensive high school reform initiative referred to as career academeis. This report grew out of the sponsors' interest in tracking the implentation of the program both as a means to improve it and to expand it to additional sites.

Download or read book JROTC Career Academies Guidebook written by Abby Eisenshtat Robyn and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 1995 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guidebook was designed as a planning aid for districts participating in the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) Career Academy Program, a partnership among the United States Department of Defense, the United States Department of Education, individual school districts, and the business community. The program personalizes instruction through schools-within-schools and provides leadership and vocational and academic training to at-risk youth. The program emphasizes high school graduation through academic instruction; critical skills development through a career-field focus; and citizenship, leadership, responsibility, values, and discipline through the JROTC course of instruction. Following the introduction, chapter 2 describes the academy model (its theoretical basis and overview) and chapter 3 discusses the roles of various participants. One table is included. The appendix contains an implementation timeline. A list of National Center for Research in Vocational Education publications is included. (Contains 10 references.) (LMI)

Download or read book Evidence of Positive Student Outcomes in JROTC Career Academies written by Marc N. Elliott and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Career academies, school-within-a-school high school programs organized around a vocational theme, have become a popular approach for addressing the needs of at-risk students. Few published studies have evaluated their effectiveness, and most of these studies have focused on the same small set of academies. This research examines student outcomes for 18 cohorts of entering students enrolled in a total of eight pairs of schools in five major urban school districts across the United States. Pairs of schools were chosen to help rule out selectivity bias. We focus on student attendance, grades, and graduation status, using a propensity weighting technique to adjust for selection into the career academy. In 1992, the Departments of Defense and Education sponsored the development of career academies in a number of urban centers, enhancing the traditional career academy model with the addition of required enrollment in the Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps (JROTC) program of instruction. The eight career academies in this study are a subset of the thirty-eight academies begun under this initiative. These academies came to be called JROTC Career Academies (JROTCCA).

Download or read book Making Soliders in the Public Schools written by Catherine Lutz and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1995-07 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Report examines the JROTC program's history, consideration of its distribution and relation to military manpower needs, and an analysis of its curriculum. Focuses on 2 ways to analyze the JROTC program: 1) Should the program be in the public schools and basically does it produce the educational results it claims; and 2) Should the public schools be used for the benefit of organizations like the military whose goals are not those accepted as the primary goals of public education in a democracy.

Download or read book Implementing High School JROTC Career Academies written by Lawrence M. Hanser and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 2000 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1992, the U.S. Departments of Defencse and Education joined together to create a high school program aimed at encouraging at-risk youth to remain in school until graduation. The program is a marriage of the defense-sponsored Junior Resrve Officer's Training Corps (JROTC) program and a comprehensive high school reform initiative referred to as career academeis. This report grew out of the sponsors' interest in tracking the implentation of the program both as a means to improve it and to expand it to additional sites.

Download or read book Implementing Career Academies in a Large Comprehensive High School written by Delmas Lee Watkins and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author's abstract: The purpose of this study is to examine the experiences of high school individuals in implementing and sustaining Career Academies in a large comprehensive high school. The Career Academy is a high school reform model that integrates school-to-work elements in a personalized learning environment. The Career Academy structure provides partnerships between high schools and employers to enhance students exposure to career development and work-based learning opportunities. The Career Academy model has proven to be a successful reform initiative for keeping students in school and positively impacting their post-secondary outcomes. Success is dependent of the contingent on the full implementation including a strong curriculum and instruction component. The researcher gathered information by using the qualitative method to examine the experiences of how one large high school implemented and sustained Career Academies. Face-to-face interviews were conducted with individuals from one high school involved in the successful implementation and sustenance of Career Academies. A case study narrative format was used to document the experiences of individuals involved in the implementation and sustenance of Career Academies. 2 Three conclusions can be drawn from the results of the study. First, high school leaders must have a clear reason for implementing Career Academies. The administrators and teachers in the study are focused on educating all students by providing a challenge integrated curriculum and establishing relationships that prepare them for life beyond high school. Secondly, there must be buy-in to the implementation of Career Academies. The Board of Education and district was supportive to implementing Career Academies. Professional development needs to be continuous and ongoing as improvements and adjustments are made steady implementation. Lastly, the structure and support of Career Academies must be a priority for effectiveness of the initiative. Career Academies do require additional work and, therefore, entail additional expense. Teachers must meet on a regular basis as a team to develop integrated curriculum, coordinate employer involvement, and organize links to college and other postsecondary options for students.

Download or read book Administrators Perspectives of JROTC Career Academies and Their Impact on At risk Students Attendance Behavior Academic Achievement and Graduation Rates in Urban Public Schools written by Margie Melissa Jenkins and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Educating for Peace in a Time of Permanent War written by Paul R. Carr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the meaning of peace, why should we study it, and how should we achieve it? Although there are an increasing number of manuscripts, curricula and initiatives that grapple with some strand of peace education, there is, nonetheless, a dearth of critical, cross-disciplinary, international projects/books that examine peace education in conjunction with war and conflict. Within this volume, the authors contend that war/military conflict/violence are not a nebulous, far-away, mysterious venture; rather, they argue that we are all, collectively, involved in perpetrating and perpetuating militarization/conflict/violence inside and outside of our own social circles. Therefore, education about and against war can be as liberating as it is necessary. If war equates killing, can our schools avoid engaging in the examination of what war is all about? If education is not about peace, then is it about war? Can a society have education that willfully avoids considering peace as its central objective? Can a democracy exist if pivotal notions of war and peace are not understood, practiced, advocated and ensconced in public debate? These questions, according to Carr and Porfilio and the contributors they have assembled, merit a critical and extensive reflection. This book seeks to provide a range of epistemological, policy, pedagogical, curriculum and institutional analyses aimed at facilitating meaningful engagement toward a more robust and critical examination of the role that schools play (and can play) in framing war, militarization and armed conflict and, significantly, the connection to peace.

Download or read book Student Success Indicators of JROTC Career Academies in South Texas written by Peter Houting and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book EXAMINING THE EFFECT OF IMPLEMENTING A CAREER ACADEMY WITHIN AN UNDER PERFORMING HIGH SCHOOL written by Will Glaster Artis and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William G. Artis, Jr., EXAMINING THE EFFECT OF IMPLEMENTING A CAREER ACADEMY WITHIN AN UNDER-PERFORMING HIGH SCHOOL (Under the direction of Dr. Travis Lewis) Department of Educational Leadership, May 2021. Career academies provide high school students with an opportunity to complete high school coursework while deeply exploring a potential career field concentration. Such academy models aim to improve high graduation rates and college and career readiness of students. However, the implementation of a career academy program can be challenging and may not always lead to the results intended. This action research study explores the effect of implementing a career academy in a large, underperforming traditional high school. Perceptions of career academy teachers as they participate in the implementation are explored. Additionally, student outcome measures in the form of achievement test scores and conduct reporting serve as indicators of the effect of implementation. The Four Keys to College and Career Readiness Model by David Conley served to guide the career academy implementation process

Download or read book Preparing Youth for the 21st Century The Transition from Education to the Labour Market Proceedings of the Washington D C Conference 23 24 February 1999 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 1999-09-02 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication points the way to future initiatives to improve youth labour market and educational outcomes as identified by policy-makers and experts of OECD countries brought together at the Washington Conference "Preparing Youth for the 21st Century."

Download or read book Urban Teacher Academy Project Toolkit written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is an urgent need not only to attract more people into the teaching profession but also to build a more diverse, highly qualified, and culturally sensitive teaching force that can meet the needs of a rapidly changing school-age population. This Toolkit takes best practices from high school teacher academies around the United States and organizes them into the steps needed to design and implement programs. The purpose of the Toolkit is to help school districts plan and institutionalize high school teaching academies in order to nurture and "grow" prospective teachers committed to serving their schools and communities. Research done by the Urban Teacher Academy Project suggests that there are approximately 50 teacher academy programs in the country. These high school teacher academies are teaching-focused, comprehensive academic programs within larger schools, most of which offer electives related to teaching, learning, and children, with precollege internships in schools and partnerships with colleges and universities that provide a pathway into college and teacher education. The guide's first chapter gives strategies for putting the elements of a successful teaching career academy into place. The second chapter explains the important elements of effective programs and gives a look at how these elements have been implemented in other teaching academies. The third chapter provides advice on how to document and assess a program. An appendix provides useful information about other national precollegiate teacher recruitment programs to supplement or support teaching career academy activities. A planner's checklist is included to outline steps in designing a teaching career academy. An appendix contains descriptions of three teaching career academy programs, and a list of useful resources for establishing a teaching career academy is included. (SLD)

Download or read book High School Career Academies written by Nan L. Maxwell and published by W.E. Upjohn Institute. This book was released on 2000 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book High School Teaching Career Academies written by and published by . This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Urban Teacher Academy Project (UTAP) promotes the recruitment and preparation of qualified and diverse teachers for urban schools by expanding a school-to-career approach through high school teaching career academies. The UTAP has documented the best practices and developed practical information to guide the formation of career teaching academies through the study of four high school career academy programs in three urban school districts. The programs profiled in this document are: (1) Walton-Lehman Pre-Teaching Academy at Walton High School, New York, New York; (2) The Center for the Teaching Profession at Miami Senior High School, Miami, Florida; (3) Children's Advocacy, Research, Education, and Services Magnet at Miami Norland Senior High School, Miami, Florida; and (4) The Teacher Academy at Mt. Pleasant High School, Providence, Rhode Island. The work of UTAP suggests several key steps for the implementation of successful high school teaching academies. The first is to get support from important stakeholders. Establishing partnerships with institutions of higher education, developing a strong program framework, and taking time to develop a collaborative atmosphere are also essential, as is program evaluation to guide further development. (SLD)

Download or read book New Directions for High School Career and Technical Education in the 21st Century written by Richard L. Lynch and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Clear and Effective Legal Writing written by Veda Charrow and published by Aspen Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its Fourth Edition, Clear and Effective Legal Writing continues to give students a classic introduction to legal analysis and legal writing. Concise and accessible, the text focuses on memo and brief writing while reinforcing key writing skills. This proven teaching tool provides the student with excellent examples and numerous skill-honing exercises. Offering comprehensive coverage from case synthesis and case briefing to preparing Supreme Court briefs, this text: starts with an overview of legal analysis, and then walks students through the writing process: understanding context, organizing effectively, writing clearly and effectively, and reviewing and editing describes differences between legal language and ordinary discourse, and the linguistic theory underlying the origins of legal language seamlessly combines legal reasoning with legal writing and helps the student understand the relationship between the two provides straightforward rules for writing effective legal documents, with scores of examples of the good, the bad, and the humorous includes numerous exercises throughout the book to help students reinforce their skills dissects and annotates actual trial court memoranda and Supreme Court briefs highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of each example provides an insightful interview with the Clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States on what the Court expects to see in brief and the assistance that his office provides to all litigants appearing before the Court shows how to transform a memorandum into an advocacy document provides guidance for writing well in an appendix with overview of English sentence structure New to the Fourth Edition: updated examples throughout an updated legal process portion taking into account changes in law and updating examples a new set of Supreme Court briefs with annotations additional material addressing how the Internet is affecting court filings and formatting