ABSTRACT
On your visit to Township High School in a typical aft ernoon you would fi nd a number of ninth graders working in small seminars, studios, and labs. Students rehearse excerpts from Studs Terkel’s book, Working, in Ms. Porter’s English class; tomorrow they will share their poetic or artistic representations of the characters in the book. In Mr. Lee’s integrated math and science class, students listen to and ask questions of an engineer who explains real world math problems she encounters in her work. In fact, throughout Township High, all ninth-grade students are taking academic courses that focus on the question, “what is the meaning of work?”
