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Taylor, Alison – Journal of Education Policy, 2006
This paper examines what happens to "vocational education" within an education market. We ask the question: how does the policy emphasis on competition and choice fit with the rhetoric of facilitating school-to-work transitions for all students? Findings from interviews with high school principals and representatives from the Edmonton…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Urban Schools, Equal Education, School Choice
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Wishart, Diane; Taylor, Alison; Shultz, Lynette – Journal of Education Policy, 2006
This paper looks at policy discourse around "youth at risk" (YAR) by asking two questions: First, how have problems and solutions related to YAR been constructed by Governments? And second, how do particular technologies of Government (differentiation of schools, programmes, and course streams, and the funding and identification of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High Risk Students, Educational Policy, High Schools