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Why Teenagers Are Growing Up So Slowly Today | Lefty Parent

Why Teenagers Are Growing Up So Slowly Today | Lefty Parent

Why Teenagers Are Growing Up So Slowly Today

I was excited to see this piece titled “Why Teenagers Are Growing Up So Slowly Today”, not so much because it was new information for me, but because it was good to see this wake up call to parents and our public education establishment getting aired in the mainstream media (Newsweek magazine in this case). The article reviews a book, Escaping the Endless Adolescence, written by Dr. Claudia Worrell Allen and her partner Dr. Joe Allen, highlighting their research on human development particularly during the teenage years…

Allen has concluded that our urge to protect teenagers from real life – because we don’t think they’re ready yet – has tragically backfired. By insulating them from adult-like work, adult social

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npr.org - The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education By Diane RavitchHardcover, 296 pagesBasic BooksList price: $26.95 In the fall of 2007, I rel...


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washingtonpost.com - Education Secretary Arne Duncan just appeared at a forum on how to redo the law known as No Child Left Behind and he got a gift from Montgomery County Public Schools Chancellor Jerry Weast. It wasn...


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cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com - A former consultant for the Department of Education surrendered to federal authorities on Thursday to face charges that he stole $3.6 million in the six years he worked managing projects that were ...


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hubpages.com - WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE TO IMPROVE PUBLIC SCHOOLS? Just about everyone agrees that there is a need to improve public schools, but there is no consensus on what should be done. In some districts top-d...


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newschools.org - Get excited.Today, we are rolling out the final agenda and speaker list for Summit 2011. May 18 is going to be a great day. (And do click on the links… they’ll take you to our new website!)Since 19...


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wbez.org - From the indispensable "You’ve Cott Mail", a digest of arts news from throughout the English-speaking world, comes this sample of conventional wisdom about the source of arts’ groups funding troubl...


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wbez.org - Chicago Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel says no group is immune from the changes he plans -- and that includes the arts. Emanuel took the stage at the Goodman Theatre before a crowd that included prominen...


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hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 5:24 pm, April 28, 2011 Photo Credits: Influential Hispanics meet with President Obama to discuss immigration Thursday, President Obama hosted a number of “influential Hispanics from a...


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democracynow.org - Web Exclusive Democracy Now! hosts a conversation between Palestinian author Rula Jebreal and Egyptian journalist Issandr El Amrani about the continued uprisings in the Middle East and Arab attitud...


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michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Vicki Phillips, director at Gates Foundation, said the partnership with Pearson was part of a “suite of investments.” -- New York Times Chicago Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel warns city's arts community:...


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robertreich.org - Exxon-Mobil’s first quarter earnings of $10.7 billion are up 69 percent from last year. That’s the most profit the company has earned since the third quarter of 2008 — perhaps not coincidentally, a...


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