Educating adolescents
Subtitle: challenges and strategies
By: edited by Tim Urdan, Frank Pajares.
Contributors: Pajares, Frank.; Urdan, Timothy C.
Series: Adolescence and education
Publisher: Information Age Pub.
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Greenwich, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
Subjects: High school teaching -- United States.; Teenagers -- Education -- United States.; Identity (Psychology) in adolescence -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Tim Urdan and Frank Pajares; title: Risk factors related to academic achievement in adolescence / Daniel J. Flannery and Kelly L. Wester; title: A self-regulation approach to understanding adolescent depression in the school context / Karen D. Rudolph; title: Abusive, wanted, and illegal sexual experiences in adolescence / Nancy D. Kellogg; title: Ethnicity and peer harassment during early adolescence : exploring the psychological benefits of ethnic diversity from an attributional perspective / Sandra Graham; title: Adolescent victimization and weapon use on school grounds : an empirical study from Israel / Ron Avi Astor ... [et al.]; title: Looking at adolescents through international assessments / Gerald W. Bracey; title: Enrollment, achievement, and motivational profiles of immigrant and native adolescents / Tim Urdan and Deborah Garvey; title: The schools-within-schools reform : a viable solution to the problems of large high schools? / Valerie E. Lee and Douglas D. Ready; title: Bridging social and academic identities : peer relations, friendship, and educational experiences / Donna Eder and Janice McCabe; title: The "identity-education" link : six themes in an educational setting that influence adolescent identity development and well-being / Gerald R. Adams and Susan Palijan; title: Religion and the educational experiences of adolescents / Geoffrey L. Ream and Ritch C. Savin-Williams.