What It Takes To Pull Me Through: Why Teenagers Get in Trouble and How Four of Them Got Out
By David L. Marcus.
Description
Millions of parents struggle to grasp what goes on in their kids' heads, on their computers, and among their friends. As an education correspondent for U.S. News & World Report, David L. Marcus wrestled with similar questions while reporting on the maze of pressures American teenagers now face -- a resurgent drug culture, proliferating temptations and threats on-line, skyrocketing suicide rates (three times higher than in the 1960s), and more. To find answers, Marcus gained unfettered access to students, staff, and parents at the Academy at Swift River in western Massachusetts. The...
ISBN(s)
0618145451, 9780618145454
