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 Format: Hardcover, 321 pages
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300079826
Release Date: Jan 4, 1999
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Are today's teenagers really slackers, the apathetic, baggy-pants wearing, unmotivated individuals so often portrayed by the media? In this landmark study of 7,000 adolescents two of the nation's foremost education experts provide startling news about our teenagers. Contrary to prevailing notions, today's teens are the most ambitious generation yet - more want to be college graduates and work as professionals than ever before. But because schools and parents sometimes do a poor job of directing them, many take the wrong courses, choose the wrong colleges, and enter college with unrealistic career goals. For many their dreams of success are likely to remain just that - dreams. Barbara Schneider and David Stevenson show how parents and teachers can take adolescents' admirable raw ambition and provide them with direction and social support. As the authors demonstrate through many poignant cases, it is not enough to simply tell teens to work hard. We must also help them plan what they want to do and how to go about doing it.
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This book persuasively shows that the current generation suffers not from a lack of ambition but from a lack of guidance. It demonstrates, once again, that adolescents need the active involvement of parents in their daily life in order to succeed. Parents, educators, school counselors, and policymakers should read this book and follow the authors' sensible advice. —Laurence Steinberg
| |  | | | | Preface | | | 1 | Ambitious Adolescents | 1 | | Pt. I | Voices from the 1950s and the 1990s | | | 2 | Imagining the Future | 15 | | 3 | Trying to Make It with a High School Diploma | 56 | | 4 | The Importance of Aligned Ambitions | 79 | | Pt. II | The Formation of Aligned Ambitions | | | 5 | Channeling Ambitions in High School | 113 | | 6 | Families and the Shaping of Aligned Ambitions | 141 | | 7 | Teenage Work and Internships | 170 | | 8 | Being Alone and Being with Friends | 189 | | Pt. III | Defining a Pathway | | | 9 | The Ambition Paradox | 215 | | 10 | Supporting the Development of Aligned Ambitions | 245 | | App. A | The Alfred P. Sloan Study of Youth and Social Development | 265 | | App. B | Logistic Regression Models | 269 | | Notes | 277 | | Index | 309 |
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