While many at-risk students were reported to succeed in the co-op education program in which Ashley was enrolled, the match to Ashley’s needs for a structured curriculum, close supervision, and high accountability was not ideal. In Ashley’s case, after the period of workplace preparation ended, planning for learningwas primarilythe responsibilityof Ashley and her workplace supervisors, none of whom was skilled at such planning, at teaching, or at following through. This resulted in an ad hoc curriculum that Ashley took advantageofandfromwhichshegraduallydisengaged, fallingintotruancyasshehadinheracademicprogram. Thereseemedtobelittle planningforlearningandlittle learning, while there were considerable demands for independent writing and other academic tasks, in the WBE program that Ashley chose. So while co-op education got Ashley back into school, it did not engage herenoughtoovercomeherat-riskstatus. Onefocusof Ashley’s program was credit recovery which did meet her needs, as she saw them. After two years in WBE