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Career Academies

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Description

Career Academies is a school-within-a-school programme model that combines small learning communities, career-themed academic and career courses, work experience, and partnerships with employers, higher education, and the community.

Components

  • Career Academies program element: Career Academies are a dropout prevention program for high school youth organized as a school-within-a-school with a career theme such as health care, finance, technology, communications, or public service. Students "take both career-related and academic courses and acquire work experience through partnerships with local employers." The National Career Academy Coalition's standards of practice identify "three basic features" as key elements: small learning communities, a focused career-themed curriculum, and partnerships with employers, higher education institutions, and the community. (Career Academies)

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Key Sources

  • U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, What Works Clearinghouse. (2015, September). Dropout Prevention intervention report: Career Academies. Retrieved from https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/InterventionReport/70
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description Career Academies is a school-within-a-school programme model that combines small learning communities, career-themed academic and career courses, work experience, and partnerships with employers, higher education, and the community.
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