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As posted on Lake Washington 
Level 5 Graduation requirements
www.lkwash.wed...ograms/curriculum/level5_field.asp


The Research:


From America's Choice: High Skills or Low Wages! by the National
Center on the Education and the Economy, 1990


Other industrial nations have multi-year career-oriented educational
programs that prepare students to operate at a professional level in
the workplace [but it's only for non-academic students!]


Most of the countries we studied, schools begin early to prepare
young people for working life. Students in Denmark, Germany and
Sweden begin learning about occupations in the seventh grade from
local employes nad labor market representative who visit the schools.
Swedish children make field trips to workplaces and are required to
complete 10 weeks of summer employment by age 16. After the finish
compulsory school at age 15 or 16, the majority of young people in
Germany, Sweden and Denmark enter a two or four year professional
program to prepare them for working life [but the top students simply
spend 3 years preparing for college, not working apprenticeships with
vocational training in specific jobs]


From High Skills, High Wages, Washington's Comprehensive Plan for Workforce
Training and Education by the Workforce Training and Education Coordination
board, 1994


The Board most urgently recommends that we make the last [two] years
of high school part of a school-to-work transition program [even for
the 60% of students who will start college immediately after
graduation!] Within five years [1999, ha?] schools with provide
educational pathways to students who have completed a Certificate of
Mastery.