Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1 Meeting the essential requirements for healthy adolescent development in a transforming world
- 2 Adapting educational systems to young adolescents and new conditions
- 3 The impact of school reform for the middle grades: A longitudinal study of a network engaged in Turning Points–based comprehensive school transformation
- 4 Schooling for the middle years: Developments in Europe
- 5 The role of the school in comprehensive health promotion
- 6 Education for healthy futures: Health promotion and life skills training
- 7 HUMBIO: Stanford University's human biology curriculum for the middle grades
- 8 Education for living in pluriethnic societies
- 9 The economics of education and training in the face of changing production and employment structures
- 10 School-to-work processes in the United States
- 11 Finding common ground: Implications for policies in Europe and the United States
- Name index
- Subject index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 May 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1 Meeting the essential requirements for healthy adolescent development in a transforming world
- 2 Adapting educational systems to young adolescents and new conditions
- 3 The impact of school reform for the middle grades: A longitudinal study of a network engaged in Turning Points–based comprehensive school transformation
- 4 Schooling for the middle years: Developments in Europe
- 5 The role of the school in comprehensive health promotion
- 6 Education for healthy futures: Health promotion and life skills training
- 7 HUMBIO: Stanford University's human biology curriculum for the middle grades
- 8 Education for living in pluriethnic societies
- 9 The economics of education and training in the face of changing production and employment structures
- 10 School-to-work processes in the United States
- 11 Finding common ground: Implications for policies in Europe and the United States
- Name index
- Subject index
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- Preparing Adolescents for the Twenty-First CenturyChallenges Facing Europe and the United States, pp. i - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1997