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Kathleen Vail – Phi Delta Kappan, 2024
Some students learn better if they can apply skills and knowledge to their lives. Youth apprenticeships are a way for students to work and gain skills in a chosen career field and earn money while still in high school. Youth apprenticeships are on a continuum of work-based learning that includes job shadowing and internships. Apprenticeships…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, High School Students, Job Shadowing, Experiential Learning
Anna Seiders – ProQuest LLC, 2022
With the rapidly changing technology, it is no surprise that the number of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) occupations continues to rise. Between 2009 and 2015, available STEM jobs in the United States grew by 10.5%, twice the growth of non-STEM jobs (Fayer et al., 2017). However, the United States is currently falling…
Descriptors: High School Teachers, STEM Careers, High School Students, Student Attitudes
Covacevich, Catalina; Mann, Anthony; Santos, Cristina; Champaud, Jonah – OECD Publishing, 2021
The aim of the OECD Career Readiness project is to identify patterns of teenage attitudes and activities that are associated with better transitions into employment by analysing multiple national longitudinal datasets. This paper looks for further evidence of the link between teenage activities, experiences and career-related thinking and adult…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adolescent Attitudes, Secondary School Students, Adults