The challenge we face as parents, educators, and concerned adults is to figure out how to take advantage of the opportunity by providing experiences and responsibilities that stimulate brain development, and limiting adolescents’ exposure to situations and substances that threaten their health, while they are still immature in terms of

What is the effect of prolonging the end of adolescence in the context of stimulating experiences on brain development? 

Steinberg recommends that secondary schools should place more emphasis than they currently do on helping students 

When criminal interrogators “minimize” the actions allegedly committed by saying things like “After all, you were only doing what your buddies told you to do” adolescents are more likely to respond in ways that relate to their focus on 

Adolescents who have trouble managing themselves benefit from having parents who can do it for them. The main tools parents should use include all of the following except

In phase two of brain reorganization during adolescence,

Elementary school students in the U.S. probably achieve at higher levels than high school students because the younger students are less likely to be distracted by all of the following except

Grit, or the determination to finish a task, involves all of the following except: 

How do students in the U.S. compare, on academic participation and belongingness, to students in other countries?

So what’s wrong with the advertising campaigns used to prevent things like unprotected sex, drug use, and reckless driving among teens? Educational programs change