Crain, R. L., Allen, A., Thaler, R., Sullivan, D., Zellman, G., Little, J. W., and Quigley, D. D. (1999). The Effects of Academic Career Magnet Education on High Schools and Their Graduates (MDS-779). Berkeley: National Center for Research in Vocational Education, University of California.

Acknowledgments

      This report owes a large debt to many people and institutions. Our greatest debt is to the students and educators who we interviewed; without them, this report would not exist. We are also indebted to the local educational administrators, especially the research staff, for permitting us to do this study and providing a great deal of technical assistance. In particular, we would like to thank the principals who gave us permission to interview students and staff in their schools. Since the schools are anonymous in this report, we are unable to thank them by name. We also owe a great debt to four, very wise and hard working (but again anonymous) school professionals who helped us understand their school, helped us select samples of students, and helped us solve a thousand problems which would have crippled our fieldwork.

      We would like to thank our staff of interviewers without whom this study would never have been completed: Janice Kelly, Kim Alkins, Susan Wilcox, and Ray Westbrook. In addition, we would like to thank five other staff members of this project who contributed so much to its fulfillment: Amy Heebner, Will Jordan, Yiu-Pong Si, Vanessa Smith, and Barbara Tokarska.

      We must also thank our best critics: Thomas Bailey, Director of the Institute on Education and the Economy (where this project was based); Sue Berryman, former Director of the Institute on Education and the Economy; our former colleague at Teachers College, Michael Timpane; and from the Manpower Development Research Corporation, Edward Pauly, George Cave, and David Long.

      In addition, we wish to thank the staff at Teachers College, Columbia University--especially George Schuessler and Evo Antoniazzi of the Computer Center, and Lisa Rothman of the Institute on Education and the Economy.

      Finally, we want to thank Morton Inger, whose editing, writing, and organizational skills enabled us to get this report ready for publication.

Crain, R. L., Allen, A., Thaler, R., Sullivan, D., Zellman, G., Little, J. W., and Quigley, D. D. (1999). The Effects of Academic Career Magnet Education on High Schools and Their Graduates (MDS-779). Berkeley: National Center for Research in Vocational Education, University of California.