This report was prepared for the National Center for Research in Vocational Education, University of California at Berkeley, with support from the Office of Vocational and Adult Education, U.S. Department of Education. It fulfills NCRVE's obligation under section 404(b)(2) of the 1990 Amendments to the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act.
In addition to the authors listed on the title page, several others have contributed to this work. In particular, the New American High School (NAHS) project, headed by Mayo Tsuzuki Hallinan, provided first-hand reports from schools around the country, some of which are excerpted here. The NAHS team members whose work is directly included in this report include Laura Munoz, Shannon Nuttall, Wayne Shipley, Diane Steinberg, and James R. Stone III, in addition to Mayo Hallinan.
We are indebted to Robert Ivry, Richard Kazis, and Robert Schwartz for carefully reviewing an earlier draft. Nevertheless, the authors are responsible for any deficiencies in this report. The conclusions and opinions expressed here are not necessarily those of the funding agency.