This book describes and analyzes the current state of work-based learning in the US. It begins with a review of the history of work-based learning and its place in policy-making around school reform, which establishes the theoretical and empirical basis for the rest of the book. Based on over five years of research on work-based learning in high school and community college programs across the country, it explores the potential for using work-based learning as part of a broad education reform strategy. The authors emphasize the importance of situated learning in understanding work-based...

Analystsandanalystsalonecreateintelligence.Althoughtechnologicalmarvelsassistanalystsbycatalogingandpresentingdata, informationandevidenceinnewways, theydonotdoanalysis.To bemosteffective, analystsneedanoverarching, reflectiveframeworktoaddstructuredreasoningtosound, intuitivethinking."Criticalthinking"providessuchaframeworkandgoesfurther, positivelyinfluencingtheentireintelligenceanalysisprocess.Analystswhoadoptcriticalthinkingstandtoimprovetheiranalysis.Thispaperdefinescriticalthinkingin thecontextofintelligenceanalysis, explainshowitinfluencestheentireintelligenceprocess,...

Sensemaking is the inaugural book in our new series, titled The A. Denis Clift Series on the Intelligence Profession. The Clift Series will present original research on intelligence analysis and the teaching of intelligence. Sensemaking, whereby intelligence professionals would work with executive decisionmakers to explain data that are "sparse, noisy, and uncertain,"requires an interpreter and experienced champion to bring about a practicable understanding and acceptance of the concept among intelligence practitioners. David Moore has accomplished that feat. Further, he, along with...