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full title:: Career-Connected Learning: Beneficial for All, Essential for Some
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Highlights
- emerging consensus is we can reach more students more effectively by weaving career exploration and work-based learning — often referred to as “career-connected learning” — into the high school experience
- hen students learn new skills in the context of a paid internship, they begin to understand what they do well and what they enjoy doing. When combined with ongoing career exploration, work-based learning offers a powerful complement to the classroom
- PIC, Boston’s workforce board places career specialists in the city’s high schools to identify, prepare, and match students with paid internships.
- national school-to-career initiative that makes these connections possible at the local level holds great promise for integrating what students learn in school with career exploration and work-based learning.
- Not everyone learns the same way, and we can’t afford to leave anyone behind.