Improving school-to-work transitions / David Neumark, editor.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Improving school-to-work transitions / David Neumark -- Transitions to work for racial, ethnic, and immigrant groups / Deborah Reed, Christopher Jepsen, and Laura E. Hill -- Participation in career and technical education and school-to-work in American high schools / James R. Stone III and Oscar A. Aliaga -- Do school-to-work programs help the "forgotten half"? / David Neumark and Donna Rothstein -- Learning by doing career academies / David Stern, Christopher Wu, Charles Dayton, and Andrew Maul -- The National Academy Foundation's career academies : shaping postsecondary transitions / Margaret Terry Orr, Thomas Bailey, Katherine L. Hughes, Gregory S. Krenzl, and Melinda Mechur Karp -- Labor-market linkages among two-year college faculty and their impact on student perceptions, effort, and college persistence / Ann E. Person and James E. Rosenbaum -- Smoothing the transition from school to work : building job skills for a local labor market / Nan L. Maxwell.