Schools that emphasize relatively small learning communities (typically 200 or fewer students) working with the same groups of teachers in applied areas such as health and bioscience, business and finance, architecture and construction, education and child development, and information technology best describe:
a. middle schools.
b. junior highs.
c. career academies.
d. parochial schools.
c
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