Publisher's Synopsis
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.
