An Analysis of a Work-Study Program for Inner-City Pupils
tional training restricts them to a future of low-paying jobs. One attempt to deal with this double-edged problem has been to incorporate workstudy programs for potential dropouts into the junior and senior high school curricula. The stated attempt is to provide a more &dquo;meaningful&dquo; curriculum, orient the pupils toward accepting responsibility, introduce the students to the world of work, and provide more (and thus, better) education by keeping the students in school. The work-study approach is, of course, not a new one. It has been described and prescribed for college students (School and Society, 1967), alienated youth (Burchill, 1962; Levine, 1966), the mentally subnormal (Kolstoe & Frey, 1965) and potential dropouts (Savitsky, 1963). As with many basically good ideas in education, however, it has rarely been evaluated when actually implemented. DePianta (1968) reported on a program in which 13 students held jobs that paid $1.60 an hour. The data were weak and he