This document was developed to provide principals and teachers with an understanding of the concept and process of student transition to secondary school and to suggest creative ways which teachers have found that will enable educators to facilitate students' transition into and through some of the early secondary grades. The monograph is…

The effects of being six months younger than grade level were studied using seventh through twelfth grade students in Montgomery County (MD) Public Schools. The racial, sexual, and academic characteristics of the accelerated students and the effects of age/grade differences on selected academic areas and social activities were examined using…

A developmental perspective of family violence requires examining the parental, adolescent, and family system characteristics that place a family at-risk for destructive parent-child relations in adolescence. Families (N=64), all of which consisted of a youth aged 10-16 and two parents, completed the Adolescent-Abuse Inventory (AAI); the Achenbach…

Data-based studies comparing effectiveness of middle schools to traditional or other schools are almost nonexistent. The middle school movement may have gained acceptance as a reaction to the failures of junior high schools and as a response to improved understanding of the nature of the learner. The state of Pennsylvania bases the organization of…

Early adolescence is a time when students require adult assistance to become accurate and effective decision makers and problem solvers. Because of the fragmented nature of society, the family structure, and the schooling process, schools need to establish a nonthreatening environment in which students can discuss the issues related to growing up.…

This collection of materials is designed to assist those who work with early adolescents in a variety of educational settings. The articles address the following areas of concern: (1) student-teacher relationships; (2) physical growth and development; (3) adolescent needs in terms of self, family, peers, and society; and (4) nutritional patterns…

Interactions between metaphor comprehension and level of operational thought were examined to determine what advantages individuals at the formal operational level had in natural language tasks such as the understanding of figurative language. After 30 undergraduate students were classified as either late concrete, early formal, or late formal…

This resource guide, prepared by the Cook County Sheriff's Youth Services Department in Maywood, Illinois, contains information about five evolving styles of youth service delivery strategies, i.e., youth participation, youth advocacy, development of a comprehensive youth policy, youth development policy design, and delinquency prevention through…

One of a series of papers which focus on 10- to 15-year-old adolescents, this publication describes these young people as they work through developmental tasks in environments (families, communities, peer groups, and schools) that are part of their daily lives. This description is used as a basis to accomplish the following: (1) a further…

This United Nations Economic and Social Council study concerns priorities for planning and action during the "Second Development Decade" in relation specifically to children and adolescents in the less developed countries. It has been undertaken in the hope that it may assist individual countries, agencies of the United Nations, and, in…

Comparison of the perceptions of 80 learning disabled adolescents and their parents indicated that over 75% of both groups agreed that academic, cognitive, and social aspects of learning disabilities persisted into adolescence. Parents, however, rated students' academic, social, and problem solving skills lower than did the students.(DB)

Two experiments investigated adolescent-parent relationships on the dimensions of caring and knowing. In the first, adolescents estimated how well their parents knew them and how much they cared what their parents thought about them. In the second, adolescents from single-parent families living with their mothers gave estimates for knowing and…

Argues that current adolescent literature has as its recurring hero the outsider and that unlike literature of the 1950s which encouraged conformity, today's literature for young adults encourages them to remain individuals even at the cost of breaking with society. (SRT)

Discusses teaching junior high students Ann Sexton's poem about remembrances of childhood. Notes the strong personal connections students make with the action and feelings of the poem, and that the poem helps thirteen- and fourteen-year olds understand their own developmental transformations. Suggests related writing assignments based on multiple…

Many of today's youngsters are alienated, poor achievers with drug dependencies. Recent "liberating" developments for adults, such as simplified divorce procedures, have lessened adult input in children's lives. Support of children from public institutions wanes as political conservatism increases. Effective solutions are sorely needed on the…