Industry Partners Play a Major Role in Curriculum Alignment The concept of working in collaboration with an industry partner has attracted growing interest as a way to remedy high dropout rates in large urban schools, by offering work-based learning opportunities that link education with access to the workforce.  Research has documented that industry/business partners/community-based organizations [...]

In 1997, I was in my first year with Mental Health America of Los Angeles (MHA) when we began exploring a future school site for a program in health and human services. The first step was to visit and interview the administration of several local urban high schools.  As the industry partner, MHA’s goal was [...]