Working Knowledge

Based on five years of research in high school and community college programs, this book explores the potential for using work-based learning as part of a broad education reform strategy.

Working Knowledge: Work-Based Learning and Education Reform

Business & Money

Bailey, Thomas R.

Hughes, Katherine L.

Moore, David Thornton

Management & Leadership

Routledge

From the time Thomas Jefferson declared that America should send ambassadors around the globe, the life of Foreign Service officers has been seen as one of status and glamour. For many veteran officers and spouses, this remains true. But to a whole new generation of spouses life in the Foreign Service can represent an almost total loss of the economic freedom and self- determination they had learned to take for granted. These spouses find themselves swept into an institutionalized role as unpaid adjuncts to their husbands. The phenomenon is not limited to the Foreign Service, as more and more corporate spouses find themselves facing similar dilemmas. As increasing numbers of Americans are sent overseas by their employers, the term "trailing spouse" is becoming more common than ever. The dilemmas are particularly acute for dual-career couples, whether in the Foreign Service, the military, or business. In The Accidental Diplomat: Dilemmas of the Trailing Spouse, Katherine Hughes presents a detailed analysis of the situation of Foreign Service spouses. Based on over forty interviews with Foreign Service wives, as well as interviews with male spouses and tandem couples, the book traces the history of the role of the wife in the U.S. Foreign Service and describes how the lives of Foreign Service wives are constrained and determined by their husbands profession. Hughes concludes that expectations about the wifes role have changed more slowly in the Foreign Service than in American society as a whole. This important book probes the awkward world of women whose identities are shaped by the professional commitments of their husbands to the Foreign Service. Foreign Service wives are often among the best-known symbols of American society in foreign lands, responsible for representing the nation's interests and cultural traditions in settings far from home. They are asked to play this pivotal role without real compensation and in the context of shifting locales that force them to reinvent their lives every two or three years. Katherine Hughes shows us what kind of toll this takes on Foreign Service wives and the artful ways in which they learn to live with their responsibilities.Katherine Newman, Ford Foundation Professor of Urban Studies, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University The excitement of international diplomacy, the reality of actually living in a foreign culture, and the emotions maintaining a family and private life are currents that surge and flow in our diplomatic life. Much is written about the former, little about the latter. Katherine Hughes, through her research and own personal experience in the Foreign Service, goes deeply into the soul describing our changing times, underscoring the enormous importance of the spouse and family in the diplomatic service, and revealing the often deep anguish that its family members feel when the call to public service clashes with the call to family.Edward W. "Skip" Gnehm, Jr.

The Accidental Diplomat: Dilemmas of the Trailing Spouse

Aletheia Pubns Inc

This volume profiles some of the innovative reforms community college practitioners are engaged in, focusing on supporting students through to graduation. While much has been written at the federal and state levels about the need to improve student completion rates, this volume translates that imperative into action at the campus level. It presents the practitiners' voices and experiences in:  Changing academic content Pedagogy Student support services And other critical components of community colleges.  Each chapter focuses on either a particular campus-based reform or on a cross-cutting approach or set of issues relevant for most campuses. The volume highlights opportunities, describes challenges and how they were overcome, and provides guidance that can be used by other postsecondary practitioners involved in large-scale—campus, multi-campus, or system-level—reforms that aim to increase student success.  This is the 167th volume of this Jossey-Bass quarterly report series. Essential to the professional libraries of presidents, vice presidents, deans, and other leaders in today's open-door institutions, New Directions for Community Colleges provides expert guidance in meeting the challenges of their distinctive and expanding educational mission.

Applying the College Completion Agenda to Practice: New Directions for Community Colleges, Number 167 (J-B CC Single Issue Community Colleges)

Education & Teaching

Higher & Continuing Education

Jossey-Bass

Ed465 090 - What Role Can Dual Enrollment Programs Play in Easing the Transition Between High School and Postsecondary Education?

Politics & Social Sciences

Baily, Thomas R

Karp, Melinda Mechur

Politics & Government

BiblioGov

<p>This book looks at the ways that credit-based transition programs (CBTPs) may help middle- and low-achieving students enter and succeed in college. It highlights promising practices used by CBTPs to help students who might have been considered non-college-bound prepare for college credit course work. The book also discusses the challenges that credit-based transition programs face when trying to include such students.</p>

Pathways to College Access

Fermin, Baranda J.

Nova Science Pub Inc

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