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Barton J. Hirsch - Job Skills and Minority Youth, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

Job Skills and Minority Youth

New Program Directions

Av Barton J. Hirsch

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Beskrivning
Minority youth unemployment is an enduring economic and social concern. This book evaluates two new initiatives for minority high school students that seek to cultivate marketable job skills. The first is an after-school program that provides experiences similar to apprenticeships, and the second emphasizes new approaches to improving job interview performance. The evaluation research has several distinct strengths. It involves a randomized controlled trial, uncommon in assessments of this issue and age group. Marketable job skills are assessed through a mock job interview developed for this research and administered by experienced human resource professionals. Mixed methods are utilized, with qualitative data shedding light on what actually happens inside the programs, and a developmental science approach situating the findings in terms of adolescent development. Beneficial for policy makers and practitioners as well as scholars, Job Skills and Minority Youth focuses on identifying the most promising tactics and addressing likely implementation issues.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2015-11-19
  • Mått: 160 x 237 x 20 mm
  • Vikt: 460 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 204
  • Förlag: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9781107075009
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Barton J. Hirsch is Professor of Human Development and Social Policy at Northwestern University, Illinois. He has written two previous books on youth programs, A Place to Call Home: After-School Programs for Urban Youth and After-School Centers and Youth Development: Case Studies of Success and Failure (with Nancy L. Deutsch and David L. DuBois), which both received the Social Policy Award for Best Authored Book from the Society for Research on Adolescence.

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'Clearly written and accessible to a wide audience, Job Skills and Minority Youth is an original and valuable contribution to two fields that are ordinarily separate: youth development and employment training. One of the most distinctive and promising aspects of the program described in this book is its enlistment of representatives from 'primary' labor market firms - HR officers - to aid in training and testing disadvantaged youth. This is a bridge few programs build. The 'backward mapping' scheme laid out by Hirsch serves as both a succinct summary of the logic of the program and a clear rationale for focusing efforts on what matters most in helping to open opportunities for young people from Chicago's poorest neighborhoods and for others from comparable communities.' Stephen F. Hamilton, Cornell University, New York

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