“…This interest is evidenced by past research on such programs as: school-based enterprises (Stern, 1984), cooperative education (e.g., Helliwell, 1981Helliwell, -1982Herrnstadt, Horowitz, & Sum, 1979;Stern, Stone, Hopkins, McMillion, & Cagampang, 1992), and career academies (e.g., Stern, Dayton, Paik, Weisberg, & Evans, 1988;Stern, Dayton, Paik, & Weisberg, 1989). Despite the extent of this research, Kazis (1993) recently urged governmental restraint in allocating additional resources and prematurely formulating a national school-to-work public policy because of "the lack of evidence of program effectiveness for many of the initiatives touted as model school-to-work programs" (p. 17).…”