Product Description: Quiet Riot offers an anthropological critique of teaching and learning in two U.S. high schools over a twenty-seven year period. Based on the author's experiences shadowing two average students in 1983 and 2009, it presents detailed observations that powerfully capture the reality of student experiences in school...read more

This volume presents a long-term qualitative study that follows 20 New York City public high school students as they make the transition into college and work. The primary data are the young people’s reflections on high school, how they felt unprepared for college or career, and the subsequent work they have done in order to succeed. The text critiques the current state of secondary and university education, especially the neoliberal emphasis on private industry and competition. However, it claims that a critical media literacy intervention can provide young people with the skills to challenge their environments and realize they are part of, not apart from, larger social issues. One unique feature of the text is its datagathering method: Stories are culled from in-person interviews and, most importantly, electronic interviews conducted on Facebook. The research was conducted, and this book written, to illustrate the very real struggles and socioeconomic challenges of young people and works to create proactive, productive change on their behalf.

Describes how the educational needs of the Net Generation differs from their Generation X parents and baby boomer grandparents and discusses ways to minimize the increasing dropout rate and student disengagement.

High school students share their views on what teachers can do to motivate students to learn.

Your survival guide to the maze that is the maze that is the high school experience With real-life stories from teens across the country - as well as high school 'survivors' - this book paints a real picture of how teens like you feel about the strugglesand triumphs of the daily grind and how they get through it. If you ever feel like you're on the sidelines or that the pressure to perform, conform or maintain appearances gets to be too much, this is the book for you! Annotation. With hints, tips, real-life anecdotes and practical strategies from teens across the country, High School's Not Forever is a down-and-dirty survival guide to the high school experience.Presents advice for high schools students on how to cope with social and academic pressures, covering such topics as friendships, dating, sexuality, body image, substance abuse, teachers, studying, and school safety.

Product Description: Recommendations for improving America's schools arrive from all arenas and spectators including, business leaders, community members, school faculty, administrators, and parents. While many of the proposals are sound and offered with good intentions, few, if any, are given or implemented with student input...read more

Product Description: If educational reform is to succeed, it must attend to the perspectives of students―those most directly affected by schooling but least often consulted about its efficacy. This is the premise of the first book both to feature student perspectives on school and to foreground student voices; middle and high school students are the primary authors of the eight chapters collected in this volume aptly titled In Our Own Words...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: If educational reform is to succeed, it must attend to the perspectives of students―those most directly affected by schooling but least often consulted about its efficacy. This is the premise of the first book both to feature student perspectives on school and to foreground student voices; middle and high school students are the primary authors of the eight chapters collected in this volume aptly titled In Our Own Words...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This report describes recruiting trends through early 1995, focusing on changes in youth enlistment propensity and the Army's ability to "convert" the potential supply of recruits into actual enlistments. Using updated survey data and methods of analyzing propensity, it concludes that the potential supply of recruits remains higher in FY95 than it was during 1989, when recruiting results were good...read more

High school students share their views on sexuality, AIDS, racial identity, parents, sexual abuse, alcohol, tobacco, drugs, violence, death, self-image, stress, and suicide

Product Description: An examination of the ego identity of "at-risk" high school adolescents in order to determine the role of schooling in their lives. The author asked a number of high school students to tape record dialogues between themselves and their peers, to see how these students viewed their predicament...read more