Adolescence and education
Subtitle: general issues in the education of adolescents
By: edited by Tim Urdan, Frank Pajares.
Contributors: Urdan, Timothy C.; Pajares, Frank.
Series: Adolescence and education -- v. 1.
Publisher: Information Age Pub.
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Greenwich, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
Subjects: Education, Secondary -- United States.; High school teaching -- United States.; Youth -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Is adolescence here to stay? : historical perspectives on youth and education / Barbara Finkelstein; title: A goal theory perspective on the current status of middle level schools / Carol Midgley; title: The social structure of the American high school / Sanford M. Dornbusch and Jeanne G. Kaufman; title: Social relationships and school adjustment / Kathryn R. Wentzel and Ann A. Battle; title: Teaching adolescents : engaging developing selves / Anita Woolfolk Hoy, Peter Demerath, and Stephen Pape; title: Motivation in the second decade of life : the role of multiple developmental trajectories / Akane Zusho and Paul R. Pintrich; title: The effects and implications of high stakes achievement tests for adolescents / Marguerite Clarke, Lisa Abrams, and George Madaus; title: Race and gender influences on teen parenting : an identity-focused cultural-ecological perspective / Margaret Beale Spencer ... [et al.]; title: Dropping out of high school : detours in the life course / Philip Kaufman.