ABSTRACT
In this chapter we examine school-to-work programs that are widespread in US high schools and secondary vocational centers. Of these, cooperative education is the most common and most established. More recent, but rapidly spreading, are various forms of new youth apprenticeship. Another traditional, but often overlooked, approach is schoolbased enterprise. In addition to these three forms of school-supervised work experience, we also discuss the effects of other work experience and non-school-supervised jobs, which most students now hold at some time during high school.
