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Autore: | Gray Kenneth C. |
Titolo: | Other ways to win : creating alternatives for high school graduates / / Kenneth C. Gray, Edwin L. Herr ; cover designer, Michael Dubowe |
Pubblicazione: | Thousand Oaks, California : , : Corwin Press, , 2006 |
©2006 | |
Edizione: | Third edition. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (264 p.) |
Disciplina: | 370.11/3/0973 |
Soggetto topico: | Career education - United States |
High school students - Vocational guidance - United States | |
High school graduates - Employment - United States | |
Postsecondary education - United States | |
High school graduates - United States - Social conditions | |
Persona (resp. second.): | HerrEdwin L. |
DuboweMichael | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | ""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""; ""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"" | |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Other ways to win |
ISBN: | 1-4833-5184-X |
1-4522-0976-6 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910815547203321 |
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