Description
As America’s need for productive workers increases, Hamilton explains how apprenticeship would exploit workplaces as learning environments, helping young people to make the crucial connections between school learning, community participation, and a satisfying, constructive life’s work.
Pages223
Released2010
LanguageEnglish
PublisherFree Press
ISBN9781451602364
SellerSimon & Schuster
About the author(s)
Stephen F. Hamilton is Professor Emeritus at Cornell University. He taught in Washington, D.C. at a vocational high school for three years before moving on to Cornell, where he retired from after forty years. Hamilton currently works on a project of the Urban Institute to support the growth of youth apprenticeship.