Reports that significantly greater numbers of high school students have jobs now than did in the past, limiting the time student publication staff members can give to their publications. Offers suggestions to advisers with busy staff Members. (GT)

The time has come to start to improve students' job experiences and to improve the relationship between the work and school experiences. In rural and agricultural economies, student work was so important to the family that the school year was fashioned to accommodate it. As the nation became more urban, student employment for pay and student…

Interviewed by the National Association of Secondary School Principals in 1993, the president of McDonald's USA addressed the overlapping of skills acquired in the McDonald's work place with those acquired in school. He noted an adequate balance between work and school is necessary for success and viewed employment as a complement to a high school…

High school educators and students appear to have struck an implicit "bargain" that results in a deemphassis on academic learning. This book analyzes current proposals to enhance educational standards in light of the influence of this bargaining in classrooms. In so doing, it explores recent scholarship bearing on personal relations and…