Links & Resources

Resources

Some of our favorite kid-friendly career exploration websites include:

Adventures in Education

America’s Career Info Net

ASVAB Career Exploration

Career Voyages

Job Profiles

Learning for Life

Majors and Careers Central

Mapping Your Future

My Cool Career

O’Net Online

Think College Early

What Interests You?

Careership

What are we missing? If you come across an interesting career exploration website, let us know.

Find out what researchers are discovering about small learning communities and career academies at these websites:

• Career Academies: Impacts on Student Engagement and Performing in High School
• Career Academies: Cutting-Edge Reform or Passing Fad?
• Redesigning High Schools
• Sizing Things Up: What Parents, Teachers and Students Think About Large and Small High Schools
• Career Academies 
• Small Schools Work and They’re Cost Effective
• Crisis or Possibility? Conversations About the American High School
• Careership

Find out who’s doing what to further small learning communities and career academies at organizations that include:

Association for Career and Technical Education Education Division

Ford PAS (Partnership for Advanced Studies)

Gates Foundation

Magnet Schools of America

National Association of State Directors of Career and Technical Education

National Career Academy Coalition

Small Schools Workshop

U.S. Department of Education Charter Schools Program

U.S. Department of Education Small Learning Communities Program

Virtual Enterprise International