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What To Do For Your Teen's Health provides answers for major concerns and problems that parents will encounter with children during their preteen and teen years. The book's easy-to-read and easy-to-use style enables parents to quickly move through the text and obtain advice and knowledge that will add to their parenting skills. [This book] uses easy-to-read language with useful illustrations. The book explains what the teen is experiencing and how...

Chronicles the goings-on in a large metropolitan high school, detailing the experiences of an idealistic first-year teacher who is plagued by difficulties arising from an overwhelming bureaucracy, inadequate facilities, and some unforgettable students.

"A year in the life of a Chicago high school that has one of the highest proportions of refugees of any school in the nation"--

The ninth grade year is a critical juncture in a student's academic and social development. It is also a critical and difficult period for parents, as they must learn to approach their children as teenagers while still maintaining the necessary control and guidance to ensure their teenager's directed growth and success.

"In this groundbreaking book, [the authors] insist that children learn not just from their classes but from their school's routines and rituals, especially about matters of character. They convince us once again of what we may have forgotten: that we need to create schools that constantly demonstrate a belief in their students."--Back cover.

A plan for school reform that respects the best traditions of secondary schooling and urges us to do far more in preparing adolescents for the future.

Harvard education expert Tony Wagner explores what parents, teachers, and employers must do to develop the capacities of young people to become innovators. In profiling compelling young American innovators such as Kirk Phelps, product manager for Apple's first iPhone, and Jodie Wu, who founded a company that builds bicycle-powered maize shellers in Tanzania, Wagner reveals how the adults in their lives nurtured their creativity and sparked their imaginations,...