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Other Ways to Win : Creating Alternatives for High School Graduates.
Now in its third edition, this bestseller offers new data, recommendations, and observations that explore the choices for success available to students in the academic middle.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Thousand Oaks :
SAGE Publications,
2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Other Ways to Win : |b Creating Alternatives for High School Graduates. |
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| 520 | |a Now in its third edition, this bestseller offers new data, recommendations, and observations that explore the choices for success available to students in the academic middle. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Cover -- Contents -- Preface to the Third Edition -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Part I -- The One Way to Win Myth -- Chapter 1 -- The One Way to Win Myth -- The Academic Middle -- Section I: The One Way to Win Paradigm -- The One Way to Win Paradigm Defined -- Section II: The Human, Financial, and Economic Development -- Costs of the One Way to Win Paradigm -- The Human Cost of the One Way to Win Paradigm -- The Rope Climbing Allegory -- The Dollars and Cents Cost to Students and Their Parents -- The Dollars and Cents Cost to the Public -- The Economic Development Cost -- Technical Skill Shortages -- Foreign Workers, 9/11, and Exporting of Jobs -- Section III: The Argument for Creating Other Ways to Win -- A Case Study: Keith and the College Game -- Chapter 2 -- Recognizing the Forces behind One Way to Win -- Understanding the One Way to Win Mentality -- Section I: The Pressure to Go to College from Parents and Others -- Pressure from Parents -- Pressure from High Schools -- State-Mandated High Stakes Testing -- Pressure from Peers and the Media -- Section II: The Economic and Social Forces behind One Way to Win -- Diminishing Economic Opportunities -- Labor Market Misconceptions -- Globalization -- Misplaced Faith in the Job Outlook for 4-Year College Graduates -- The Fundamental Fear: All Decent Jobs Will Require a BA -- Education, Social Class, and Status -- The Prejudice Against Nonprofessional Work -- The Ideology of Equal Opportunity -- Section III: The Enablers behind One Way to Win: Open Admissions and Financial Aid -- Open College Admissions -- Need-Based Financial Aid -- Section IV: No Child Left behind -- No Child Left behind Legislation -- Other Ways to Win -- Chapter 3 -- Limited Options for Special Populations -- Section I: Disadvantaged Youth. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Youth "at Risk" of Dropping out of High School -- Special Needs Students -- Section II: Economically Disadvantaged Youth -- Section III: Women and the Gender Wage Gap -- Other Ways to Win -- Part II -- Counting the Losers in the One Way to Win Game -- Chapter 4 -- Questionable Academic Preparation -- Section I: How Effective is the College Prep Program of Study? -- The College Prep Program and the Academic Middle -- Follow-Up Study of Recent High School Graduates -- Going to College: Do Academic Credentials Matter? -- Section II: The High School Experience of Those in the Academic Middle -- College Prep Course-Taking Patterns -- Involvement in the Curriculum -- Career Uncertainty -- Second-Class Status -- Low Academic Expectations -- Other Ways to Win -- Chapter 5 -- Winners and Losers in the One Way to Win Game -- Section I: Remedial Education and College Dropouts: The First Losers -- Academic Ability to Benefit -- Remedial Education in Higher Education -- College Dropouts -- Section II: Underemployed College Graduates: The Second Losers -- The Labor Market Outlook for College Graduates -- Section III: More Losers: Those Who Prepare for College but Go to Work Instead -- Dead-End Jobs for Those without Career and Technical Education -- Other Ways to Win -- Chapter 6 -- Who Cares? The Politics of Average Students -- Section I: High School Politics and the Academic Middle -- Why High School Educators Look the Other Way -- Are School Guidance Counselors the Villains? -- The Politics of Grade Inflation -- The Stalemate in High School Classrooms -- Section II: Taking the High Ground: The Role of Elected Officials -- Section III: One Way to Win: Opportunity or Opiate -- Section IV: Behind the Scenes: Those with Vested Interests -- Other Ways to Win -- Part III: Creating Other Ways to Win -- Chapter 7 -- The High Skill/High Wage Rationale. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Section I: Five Myths about the Future Labor Market -- Two More Misunderstandings -- Section II: The Labor Market Rationale for Other Ways to Win -- Two Steps for Finding Other Ways to Win -- Step 1: Understand Three Labor Market Basics -- The Composition of Employment in High Skill/High Wage Firms -- The Best Measure of Opportunity is Total Job Openings -- Specific Occupational Skills Are More Important Than Degrees in Competing for Many High Wage Occupations -- Step 2: Investigate Technician Level Occupations within Key Sectors of Economic Growth -- Examples of Pre-Baccalaureate High Skill/High Wage Occupations -- Occupational Outlook for High Skill/High Wage Occupations Not Requiring a Baccalaureate Degree -- Importance of Occupational Skill and Postsecondary Technical Education -- Opportunities for Special Populations -- Five Points to Make with Parents -- Five Things to Consider before Finalizing Post-High School Plans -- Other Ways to Win -- Chapter 8 -- Step 1: Providing Systematic Career Guidance for Students and Structured Feedback for Parents -- Section I: Systematic Career Guidance for All Students -- Career Choices and Postsecondary Success -- Consequences of Career Indecision -- Systematic Career Guidance Defined -- The American School Counselor Association Model -- The National Career Development Guidelines Revision Project -- The Problem of Adolescent Career Immaturity -- Student Outcome Objectives for Career Development/Guidance Programs -- The Individual Career Plan -- Graduation Portfolios -- Career Pathways, Career Majors, and Career Academies -- Career Indecision and Teen Anxiety -- Section II: Providing Feedback to Parents -- Delivering the Wake-Up Call to Parents -- A Five-Step Parental Involvement Program -- Step 1: Orientation for Parents of Grade School Children -- Step 2: Have an Eighth Grade Parent Meeting. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Step 3: Involve Parents in the Career Plan -- Step 4: Provide Objective Feedback at Strategic Times -- Step 5: Provide Opportunities for Individual Assistance -- Six Points to Make with Parents -- Other Ways to Win -- Chapter 9 -- Step 2: Restructuring the High School Program of Study -- Section I: Structuring the High School Program of Study -- Creating Alternative Program Pathways to Success -- Objectives of High School Program Study Reform -- Phase 1: Core Academics: Grades 9 and 10 -- Develop Tentative Career Choices -- Phase 2: Four Transitional Emphasis Alternatives: Grades 11 and 12 -- Verify Career Choices -- Phase 3: Transitional Placement Services Dual Enrollment/Middle College -- Parental Acceptance -- Section II: Transitional Emphases for the Non-Baccalaureate Students -- The Pre-Baccalaureate Emphasis (Tech Prep) -- The Articulation Agreement -- Motivating Students to Participate in Tech Prep -- The Transitional Academic Program -- The School-to-Career Emphasis -- Option 1: School-Sponsored Work-Based Learning/Co-op -- Apprenticeships -- Military Service -- Option 2: Career and Technical Education -- Motivating Students to Participate in the School-to-Career Option -- Section III: Transitional Placement Services for All Students -- Dual Enrollment/Middle College -- Section IV: The Role of High School Career and Technical Education -- Other Ways to Win -- Chapter 10 -- Step 3: Ensuring Equal Status and Focused Academics -- Section I: Putting an End to Taylorism -- Defining Taylorism -- Taylorist Influences on High Schools -- Challenging the Taylorist Rationale -- Strategies for Ending Taylorism -- Challenge the Culture: The Equity Audit -- Challenge Discriminatory Policies and Practices -- Stop the Obsessive Rank-Ordering of Students Against Each Other -- Seek a Way to Integrate Students of Differing Academic Ability. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Create a "One Team" Culture -- Section II: Modifying Instructional Modalities and Practices -- Emphasize Contextual, or Applied, Learning -- Emphasize Reading for Comprehension -- Emphasize Math and Science for All Seniors -- Teach Keyboarding and Computer Software Skills -- Experiment with Portfolios and Cooperative Learning -- Consider Block or Intensive Master Scheduling -- Provide Dual Enrollment/Transition Programs for All Students -- Provide Alternative Curriculum Emphasis within the Program of Study -- Section III: Motivating the Academic Middle -- Strategies for Motivating the Majority -- Develop Career Motives for Learning -- Have High Expectations for All Students -- Improve Academic Self-Concepts by Catching Students Doing Things Right -- Other Ways to Win -- Chapter 11 -- Other Ways to Win and Success for All -- The American High School -- Challenging the One Way to Win Paradigm -- There Are Other Ways to Win -- Will Efforts to Create Alternatives Succeed? -- Reaching out to Parents -- Career Development and Guidance for All Students -- Creating Multiple Pathways to Success -- Challenging the High School Culture -- Doing What's Right -- References -- Index. | |
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