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Excerpt from On the Way to Work: A Report on Career Exploration in Boston Middle Schools
Isabella Hinds assisted in the management of the project and played a major role in the writing of this report. Dr. Richard Rowe, Vice President of the American Institutes for Research, provided helpful support and guidance throughout the project and was an invaluable technical resource for all project staff. Geoffrey Beane assisted in the development of this report and in data collection. Dr. James Dunn, Executive Research Scientist at the American Institutes for Research in Palo Alto, California, prepared the section on national trends for this report. Nina Green, Barry Kahn, Richard Fudge, Wes Profit and James Tewhey all played significant roles in data collection. JoAnn Fiske is largely responsible for supervising the reports production. This report could not have been prepared without the cooperation and assistance of Boston Public Schools administrators and teachers. We are particularly grateful to all of the middle school principals, teachers, and counselors who willingly gave of their time to cooperate with project staff. Ralph Clampitt, Director of the Vocational Remedy Component of the Esaa Department, provided continual support and helpful feedback. James Mahoney, Assistant Director of Vocational Education and Industrial Arts, Aurelia Kelley, Director of Home Economics, and Daniel Kearns, President of the Middle School Principals Association, all provided assistance in procedural arrangements and invaluable insight into areas of concern. We sincerely hope that this document provides the guidelines for change that these individuals and their associates are so interested in addressing. Laura Saunders, representing the Bureau of Equal Educational Opportunity of the State Department of Education, was an excellent sounding board for ideas, and together with Dr.
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