These aren't your parents' vocation education classes that direct students on solidly noncollege tracks. Over the past twenty-five years, the career academy has steadily gained a foot hold in our nation's high schools. These programs, primarily in low-income districts, focus students on not only a career, but combine job placement, college prep, and classes beyond the vocational trades. A report released on Friday finds that students from these career academies have a significantly higher employment and earnings rate than their control group peers.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/26/education/26careers.html?_r=1&ref=education&oref=slogin
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