Joe D'Amico

Joe D'Amico, associate director of the Center for Scaling Up, NCREL, and one of the hosts of NCREL's Rural Audio Journal, defines the term school-to-work. Excerpted from NCREL's Rural Audio Journal (Vol. 2, No. 3), From School to Work--and Back Again: Apprenticeships for Rural Students (North Central Regional Educational Laboratory, 1994).

"School to work is a generic term that describes a variety of efforts designed to help high school students make successful transitions from high school to the well paying jobs, which will keep the country competitive. Under this school to work banner, we find tech prep, mentorships, cooperative education, even some forms of some vocational education and agricultural education, and of course we also find apprenticeship."

This Critical Issue was researched and written by Kathleen Paris, director of the Leadership Institute for School-to-Work Transition, Center on Education and Work, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Date posted: 1997