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Adolescents’ purpose in life and engagement in risky behaviors: Differences by gender and ethnicity

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1995

Students who scored low in having a life purpose and/or meaning were significantly more likely to engage in risky behaviors such as using dangerous drugs or drinking and driving.

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Robert is a researcher at the University of Sussex.

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Reimagining public middle schools in Western Michigan.

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Eric M Schildge

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Eric is an English/Drama teacher at Sparhawk School in Amesbury, MA. He collaborates with artists, writers, actors, journalists, and other professionals to bring learning to life for students.

Power to the Students: Teaching Issue-Based Organizing

June 11, 2019

Why teach students to organize? I hear a lot about teachers “empowering” students. I always ask these teachers, “Cool, so what is your definition of power?”

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Making Progress on Progressive Education: First Empower Teachers

March 20, 2019

At the heart of progressive pedagogy are questions about student motivation: How can teachers best motivate students? How can schools best motivate teachers?

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Improvisation and the Transformative Potential of Play

March 8, 2019

Improvisational theater and its underlying progressive principles have the potential to transform school culture and reorient students and educators towards a more human and democratic approach to education.

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I think a lot of communities have a problem of too much competition, I guess. That they can't... when it gets to a point that they can't be happy for other people's accomplishments and that the only thing they can do is want to be better than the other person or the rest of them.

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