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View the first eight papers that were commissioned and presented at the High School Symposium.

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• The Role of Career and Technical Education: Implications for the Federal Government
  MS WORD (242K) By Marie Cohen and Douglas J. Besharov
• Youth Tuitionships: An Alternative Funding Arrangement to Improve Markets and Respect Individual Learning Differences MS WORD (227K) By Graham S. Toft
• The Role of Career and Technical Education in High School
  MS WORD (129K) By Virginia R. Miller
• Solutions for Failing High Schools: Converging Visions and Promising Models
  MS WORD (116K) By Nettie Legters, Robert Balfanz, and James McPartland
• Improving the Performance of High School Students: Focusing on Connections and Transitions Taking Place in Minnesota
  MS WORD (151K) By Cynthia Crist, Mary Jacquart, Ph.D., and David A. Shupe, Ph.D.
• How Should "Quality" Technical Education and Training be Defined?
  MS WORD (141K) By James Everett, Mary Gershwin, Homer Hayes, James Jacobs, and Robert Mundhenk
• Implementing the "Education Consensus": The Federal Role in Supporting Vocational - Technical Education
  MS WORD (137K) By James Jacobs, W. Norton Grubb, and David Gardner
• The Federal Role in Vocational and Technical Education at the Secondary Level: Principles for Moving Toward a Greater Emphasis on Supporting Systematic Innovation and Rigorous Evaluation
  MS WORD (121K) By James J. Kemple
• New Program Development Strategy and Supply/Demand Analysis: The Relationship Between Postsecondary Degree Program Outcomes and Occupational Needs in Minnesota
  MS WORD(945K) By Pradeep Kotamraju, Ph.D., Bruce Steuernagel, and Mary Jacquart, Ph.D.
• Improving State Accountability Systems for Postsecondary Vocational Education
  MS WORD(108K) By Robert G. Sheets