Schooling in the Workplace How the World's Best Vocational Education Programs Prepare Young People for Jobs and Life

Name: Schooling in the Workplace How the World's Best Vocational Education Programs Prepare Young People for Jobs and Life
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ISBN: 9781612501116

ISBN-10: 1612501117

ISBN-13: 9781612501116

Edition: 2011

Authors: Nancy Hoffman, Stanley S. Litow

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Which non-American education systems best prepare young people for fulfilling jobs and successful adult lives? And what can the United States--where far too many young people currently enter adulthood without adequate preparation for the twenty-first-century job market--learn, adopt, and adapt from these other systems?In Schooling in the Workplace, Nancy Hoffman addresses these questions head on, arguing that "the smartest and quickest route to a wide variety of occupations for the majority of young people in the successful countries--not a default for failing students--is a vocational program that integrates work and learning." As she notes, the programs that successfully integrate work…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Harvard Education Publishing Group (HEPG)
Publication date: 11/15/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English