Employment: Participation in Academic Courses


Employment programs may influence academic attitudes and behaviors.  Students who participated in Career Academies, a more intensive program, were more likely than those in the control group to report that they were motivated to attend school and that their classmates are highly engaged in school and work with them on school projects (CA2).  Students in the more intensive programs also increased substantially the number of academic courses they took (JC, CA4).

 
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