Contributors

Foreword

KLAUS J. JACOBS

Preface

1 Meeting the essential requirements for healthy adolescent development in a transforming world

DAVID A. HAMBURG

2 Adapting educational systems to young adolescents and new conditions

ANTHONY W. JACKSON

3 The impact of school reform for the middle grades: A longitudinal study of a network engaged in Turning Points-based comprehensive school transformation

ROBERT FELNER

ANTHONY W. JACKSON

DEBORAH KASAK

PETER MULHALL

STEPHEN BRAND

NANCY FLOWERS

4 Schooling for the middle years: Developments in Europe

DONALD HIRSCH

5 The role of the school in comprehensive health promotion

KLAUS HURRELMANN

ANDREAS KLOCKE

6 Education for healthy futures: Health promotion and life skills training

BEATRIX A. HAMBURG

7 HUMBIO: Stanford University's human biology curriculum for the middle grades

H. CRAIG HELLER

MARY L. KIELY

8 Education for living in pluriethnic societies

EUGEEN ROOSENS

9 The economics of education and training in the face of changing production and employment structures

HENRI NADEL

MIRIAM ROSEN

10 School-to-work processes in the United States

RAY MARSHALL

11 Finding common ground: Implications for policies in Europe and the United States

RUBY TAKANISHI

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