Research Library
Multiple Perspectives on Multiple Pathways: Preparing California's Youth for College, Career, and Civic Responsibility
Subtitle: Combining Academic and Career-Technical Courses to Make College an Option for More Students: Evidence and Challenges
Author: Stern, David and Stearns, Roman
Publication Date: 2006, November
Summary or Abstract: “Multiple Perspectives on Multiple Pathways” consist of a collection of fifteen essays written by distinguished California scholars. The papers in this collection provide multiple perspectives in their reviews, synthesis and interpretations of existing research on Multiple Pathways. They report research that examines the intersection between California’s changing economy, its population diversity, its widening social and economic inequality, and its patterns of school failure across racial and ethnic communities. They explore the link between current structures (structures that maintain a divide between Career and Technical Education and academic education) and inequity. They also provide analyses of alternatives that can provide multiple pathways to high school graduation and postsecondary options that include both college and career.