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Implementing High School JROTC Career Academies
In 1992, the U.S. Departments of Defense and Education joined together to create a high school program aimed at encouraging at-risk youth to remain in school until graduation. The program is a marriage of the defense-sponsored Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (JROTC) program and a comprehensive high school reform initiative referred to as career academies. This report grew out of the sponsors’ interest in tracking the implementation of the program both as a means to improve it and to expand it to additional sites. The researchers found that: the JROTC career academies made fair progress toward implementation of the model; reforms in instructional practices developed more slowly than structural reforms; school leadership played a major role in successful implementation; lack of formal agreements between program sponsors and the school districts and between the districts and the schools hindered implementation from the outset; lack of expenditure guidelines hindered long-term program sustainment.
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Contents
Chapter One:
Introduction
Chapter Two:
JROTC and Career Academies
Chapter Three:
Inaugurating the JROTC Career Academies
Chapter Four:
Research Goals, Framework, and Design
Chapter Five:
Status of Implementation
Chapter Six:
Factors Affecting Implementation
Chapter Seven:
Conclusions and Recommendations
Appendix A:
Profiles of Participating Districts and Schools
Appendix B:
Implementation Progress by Component and Year
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