Learning by Doing Career Academies
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other conference participants, and anonymous reviewers. We also want to express our continuing admiration for the teachers, administrators, community partners, and students who seek, and sometimes find, ways to make high school more worthwhile. We hope our work will support theirs. As always, we retain the authors' responsibility for any shortcomings in this paper.
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