JROTC Career Academies' Guidebook

Download or read book JROTC Career Academies' Guidebook written by Abby Eisenshtat Robyn and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 1995 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guidebook was designed as a planning aid for districts participating in the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) Career Academy Program, a partnership among the United States Department of Defense, the United States Department of Education, individual school districts, and the business community. The program personalizes instruction through schools-within-schools and provides leadership and vocational and academic training to at-risk youth. The program emphasizes high school graduation through academic instruction; critical skills development through a career-field focus; and citizenship, leadership, responsibility, values, and discipline through the JROTC course of instruction. Following the introduction, chapter 2 describes the academy model (its theoretical basis and overview) and chapter 3 discusses the roles of various participants. One table is included. The appendix contains an implementation timeline. A list of National Center for Research in Vocational Education publications is included. (Contains 10 references.) (LMI)