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Scales, Peter C. – Journal of School Health, 1999
Discusses research which suggested that building specific developmental assets among adolescents related to lowered risk-behavior patterns and increased patterns of thriving behavior among an aggregate sample of nearly 100,000 secondary school students in 213 U.S. communities. The paper discusses issues related to the scientific foundations,…
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Health Promotion, Individual Development, Secondary Education
Cordilia, Ann – Nanzan Review of American Studies, 1989
This paper examines the characteristics of high school and college as life stages of young people in Japan and the United States and suggests some of the ways in which these experiences mesh with the demands of the occupational structure. The paper first contrasts the differences in the Japanese and American student experience during their high…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences