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Ms Gonick has written a fascinating book. Accessible to all, not only to academics in her field. The girls, their lives, and their experiences in their schools really come alive as you read. Highly recommended.

This book was very helpful to a baffled parent, struggling to understand their budding teenager. I couldn't help but be saddened by my daughter pushing me away, after having been so close. But this book gave me some insight into her changing mind and personality. I was relieved to find all of her behavior normal and predictable. Written by a Waldorf High School teacher, it embodies much of the Waldorf educational philosophy, which I found fascinating. But this book will appeal to more than Waldorf parents, it has a lot of good information and advice for any parent. I highly recommend it!

If you're public health professional, a teacher, a social worker, or even a politician, dealing with teen pregnancy at any level, you don't really understand what's going on, unless you've walked the walk, or read Kristin Luker's Dubious Conceptions, Judith Musick's Young, Poor and Pregnant, or Norine Johnson et al's (Eds.) Beyond Appearance: A New Look at Adolescent Girls. If you haven't been in their (adolescent mothers') shoes, but you have the social conscience and sense of social justice to want to help these kids, these three works are, in my view, indispensible reading. If you depend on organizations like The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy for your good ideas, you have really been missing the boat. Come down to earth and discover their real world.

America is called the Land of Opportunity because people of all backgrounds are given a chance at advancement through education and hard work, but these opportunities are not available to all students.

Professor Rosenbaum has studied the educational opportunities given to students of low SES (socio-economic status) backgrounds for over 35 years. In this book, he evaluates the adequacy and extent of American vocational education programs and compares them with successful models in other countries such as Japan and Germany. In this analysis, he points out a tragic irony: due to their egalitarian ideals, American schools are uncomfortable with creating a substantial vocational education system and instead offer a college preparatory curriculum to nearly all students, a choice which ends up depriving students of the means to earn a good living.

The American educational system sends the signal to students that they ought attend college: in surveys, most students say that they plan to attend college. At the same time, students have little idea what colleges require: as Prof Rosenbaum's _Making Inequality_ (1976) showed, students were ignorant of basic college application processes. Students do know that community colleges are open to all and perceive that grades don't matter, giving them little incentive to study. Even non-college-bound students also know that employers don't look at high school grades, and so have little incentive to study.

After high school graduation, students enter community colleges ill-prepared for the courses; most students must enroll in remedial courses, which they're paying for, but do not earn college credits. Disappointed with this process, high numbers of students drop out with few or no college credits.

By contrast, in good vocational education programs, students have incentives to do well: teachers develop relationships with employers, who trust their opinions of students, and students see that their performance in the classroom has a direct effect on their employability. In addition, the voc ed curriculum is clearly relevant to the real world, and students gain self-esteem from learning real world job skills such as auto mechanics or computer assembly; making a device work is a clear source of motivation, unlike algebra.

Students in vocational education programs also attain higher levels of competence at the same skills than they would in college preparatory courses. Cognitive psychology studies show that students are often better at solving real-world problems than abstract ones: uneducated Brazilian street children selling fruit on the street are capable of solving complex arithmetic problems, but unable to solve the same problems when phrased in abstract terms.

In sum, the American educational system perpetuates a false egalitarianism through its failure to offer more substantial vocational education programs. Rather than stigmatizing students, vocational education programs empower them to gain competence in fields which are often technically complex and high-paying, and which offer substantially more opportunities for advancement than those jobs open to high school graduates.

This book is for scholarly individuals who wish to gain a deeper understanding of human development beyond adolescence and into old age. Aging is not oly about growing old, losing abilities, and dying. Aging is a developmental process throughout which we grow and change. Commons, Richards, and Armon do a fabulous job editing the chapters analyzing the changes that accompany age. Their basic stance is that Piaget's developmental theory does not allow for continuation of the developmental process to a logical conclusion. The contributors to this book are among the most important figures in adult development (Sternberg, Vidal, Gruber, Richards & Commons, Labouvie-Vief, Kohlberg, etc.), making this a must-have reference for the academician or practitioner. Very well written, this book is approachable by anyone with a college education. Highly recommended.

I read this book in 1992, and it has stayed with me ever since. I remember reading it one night and ended up staying up all night to finish it. The story is set in the 1950's in Australia -- the writer obviously knows her material here, and we are let into a world that is both mysterious and exotic for readers. It's a tale of a young girl growing up in a strict Catholic family -- she goes through the normal trials and tribulations of the teenage phase, but it's the voice of the narrator here (in first person) and her quirky observations of the adult world that makes this book such a delight. Glad that it's back in print. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

For youth workers with a preconceived notion about the roles of young people in society, this collection may be challenging. For teachers who think they know the power of students, Ginwright may be shocking. For young people who think they understanding "the movement", this book may be eye-opening. Ginwright collects dozens of the best examples of youth-led and youth-driven activism and refines them to their finest points, charging the reader to do more than complain about apathy or revel in cynicism. He leaves us no choice other than getting up to do something. Thanks Shawn - we need that. This book is an incredible read for anyone interested in the movement at any level. Before this book the reader might want to see Global Uprising : Confronting the Tyrannies of the 21st Century : Stories from a New Generation of Activists; after it you might want to reference Future 500: Youth Organizing and Activism in the United States.

With keen insight and sensitivity, O'Brien and Daggert have produced an essential guide for professionals who work with families who have a child with autism. With a firm basis in clinical experience and research as well as listening to parents, this excellent resource is well attuned to the needs of all who care for children with this baffling and challenging disorder.

Robert Naseef, Ph.D., author, "Special Children, Challenged Parents: The Struggles and Rewards of raising a Child with a Disability," co-editor "Voices from the Spectrum: Parents, Grandparents, Siblings, People With Autism, and Professionals Share Their Wisdom."
Special Children, Challenged Parents: The Struggles and Rewards of Raising a Child With a Disability

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