This book is a good example of recent national case studies for understanding school to work transition in developed countries and some developing nations. Many of the case studies that are succesful share similarities in the way students in technical schools have close relation with the work practices and the skills that future workers will need in the work place. However, the rapid technological change in the work place is putting more pressure in the school curriculum and not always the adaptation of school performance to the needs of new industrial trends is the best answer for getting a job for future workers and employees. The wide number of national experiences that have been gathering in this book edited by Daniel Wagner and David Stern are a very useful overview for understanding recent government policies for linking more school and work environments. All experts and policy makers that presented their papers in the OECD Center for Education and Research in Paris during a especial seminar are in this book. Most of the authors took into account the History and pattern of development of each country as important issues to have in mind when analyzing school to work transition in an international perspective as it is discussed in this collective book.

This novel unfolds like ananke. Everything that happens must happen, by a logic that sane men like us can feel but not enunciate.
The most refreshing thing about the novel, so many years after the unspeakable atrocities of Nazi Germany, is the approach to the history lesson. After being inundated with images of the nasty camps, this novel picks up years later, in New York City, with survivors and their families. Instead of the flat numbers of those who survived at the end of 'Schindler's List', we have the story of a man -- a number -- who survived, and continues to survive. And, we have the story of another man who has never left those camps -- a man who forbids his own escape so many years after freedom.
Fascinating, and brutal.
Daniel Stern is an unfortunately unknown writer among young readers like me, despite his extremely high quality and strong heart. I have yet to find him in my local (bookstore). That saddens me.