Dangerous Adolescents, Model Adolescents Shaping the Role and Promise of Education /

• Main Author: Levesque, Roger J. R. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2002.
• Series: Perspectives in Law & Psychology, 13
• Subjects: Psychology.; Education.; Clinical psychology.; Law and Psychology.; Education, general.; Clinical Psychology.

Teachers make a difference. As someone who grew up in one of the po- est and rural areas of a poor state and ended up attending elite graduate and professional schools, I have much to credit my public school teachers. My teachers sure struggled much to teach an amazingly wide variety of students fro...

Table of Contents:

• Developing Law to Educate Adolescents
• Education’s Role in Fostering Adolescents
• Law and the Development of Public Education
• Challenges Facing Adolescents’ Education
• Dangerous Adolescents
• Model Adolescents
• Thriving Adolescents
• Fostering Adolescents
• Ensuring the Promise of Education.