Career Academies: High School Plus
Posted on: Friday, 16 May 2008, 03:00 CDT
By Anonymous
Tech prep or college prep? The National Academy Foundation can give your high school both. To better prepare students for careers, the foundation creates small learning communities, called academies, within high schools. These academies focus on 1 of 3 career fields: finance, hospitality and tourism, or information technology. Plans have begun for opening an engineering academy in September 2008.
In partnership with nearby employers, each academy offers courses to supplement the traditional curriculum and paid internships to provide students with a chance to apply their classroom learning to a work setting.
Statistics show the program?s success. More than 90 percent of academy students graduate from high school, and the same percentage said that attending an academy helped them develop their career plans. Eighty percent of academy alumni continue their education at a 2- or 4-year college; 52 percent complete a 4-year college degree.
To learn more about the academies, including how to start one at your school, write to the National Academy Foundation, 39 Broadway, Suite 1640, New York, New York 10006; call toll free, 1 (800) 853?2223, or, in New York, (212) 635?2400; or browse online at www.naf.org.
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Source: Occupational Outlook Quarterly
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