These seven articles examine the enormous challenges to survival and growth faced by women educators, administrators, and professionals, and identify strategies/approaches as counteractive measures. Topics focus on administrators' roles, female peer relationships/co-mentoring, career persistence/pathing, nontraditional student needs, programing…

This report examines the issues associated with school-to-work programs being developed in the U.S. and provides recommendations designed to facilitate the process of developing a national school-to-work initiative. It stresses the nation's increasing need for better-educated workers but notes the low rate (less than 50 percent) of high school…