Simon Hauger

Simon Hauger is the educator whose experience with career academies is cited in Education Nation to illustrate how hard it is to integrate rigorous academic and technical curricula with workplace internships under traditional schedules. Milton Chen invokes Hauger’s experience in noting that, while more than 3,000 career academies operate around the country, they range widely in quality: the goal of combining academic and technical curricula with tandem workplace internships “is not easy to achieve with traditional curricula and schedules,” and requires close communication between high school faculty and employer mentors.

Where this appears

• Education Nation — career-academy experience illustrating the difficulty of integrating school and workplace learning.