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\u003Cbr>Conference Report  \u003Cbr>Marketing Reform  \u003Cbr>Builds Momentum.....3  \u003Cbr>District Tries  \u003Cbr>New Assessment......3  \u003Cbr>Middle School  \u003Cbr>Priorities...........4  \u003Cbr>EM Digest  \u003Cbr>School Improvement....5  \u003Cbr>Data File...........6  \u003Cbr>Student Support.......7  \u003Cbr>Instruction Techniques...8  \u003Cbr>Special Education......9   |\n| --- |\n\nFYI  \nThe early teens really are as badas many youngsters think,saysa recent study.  \nResearch on 483 students in fifththrough ninth grades in the Chi-cago suburbs found that stu-dents in seventh through ninthgrade had more negative lifeevents,such as being suspendedor losing friends,than theiryounger peers.The group alsosaid they felt down twice asmuch as did younger students.  \nDevelopmental Psychology,January 1993  \nMarch 9,1993  \nCoverage of the National Association of Secondary SchoolPrincipals meeting in Las Vegas last month continues witharticles on technical preparation,marketing reform,perfor-mance assessment and middle schools on pp.1-4.  \n# Tech Prep Program StartsEighth-Graders On Career Paths\n\nThe Calvert County,Md.,Schools start career planning ineighth grade—and career work in ninth.  \nEighth-graders plan to follow one of three \"career pathways\"to college prep,advanced technology or occupational tech-nology skills at Calvert's two high schools and vocationalschool.While it's difficult to plan careers at age 14,early de-cisions can lead to years of training and internships.  \n\"The tighter they lock in...the better prepared we can makethem,\"says James Marlett,principal of both Calvert HighSchool and Calvert Career Center,its vocational neighbor.  \nThe four-year-old system follows a technical preparationprototype,which aims to create technically literate workersby integrating rigorous academics into vocational work.Themodel usually ties the last two years of high school vocationalwork with two years of postsecondary technical training.  \n# Bridge To Jobs\n\nStudents not bound for immediate jobs or college choose theadvanced technology pathway,selecting from three strands:engineering,health and human services or business.Theycan focus on several precareer areas,such as electrical engin-eering or nursing,earning community college credit for somehigh school work when they study there later(see box,p.2).  \nStudents in the occupational path intend to land ajob or in-ternship right after high school.For instance,a studentmight seek pipefitters union certification while taking weld-ing,applied mathematics and English.  \nIntegrating academics and vocational work is crucial,saysMarlett.He promotes integration by asking academic  \n## Tech Prep Program Starts Careers(Cont.)\n\nteachers to use working world examples,byhaving vocational teachers ratchet up the aca-demics,and by building applied courses insuch subjects as algebra and chemistry.  \nCalvert borrowed and created much of its newcurricula;Marlett says it took a year and ahalfjust to plan course outlines.  \n## Popular Mechanics\n\nVoc ed that's challenging and fun—such ascomputer assisted drafting—helps popular-ize vocational work.Top students now entertechnical training,Marlett says,and voca-tional school enrollment doubled to 700 stu-dents since tech prep began.  \nOther concrete results of the program are yetto be measured,says Marlett.He's disap-pointed in the 92 percent student attendancerate,but says teacher attendance and motiva-tion for the changes have been high.  \nBest Laid Blueprints…  \nParent buy-in took more work,however.Tomarket the new setup,the school created sev-eral pamphlets and holds open houses foreighth-graders and parents.Marlett asks  \nteachers to be supplementary counselors forthe thousands of students who need advice.Many students—and their parents—planfor college and then change their minds,soMarlett sees a lot of students switching fromcollege preparatory plans to the advancedtechnology track in i0th or 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