This just in from Hillel’s Shavua Tov: Two new studies provide interesting insights about the lives of today’s Jewish teens. The new American Religious Identification Survey found that the number of Jews who define themselves as Jews by religion is going down, while the number who identify as Jews by ethnicity is staying the same. [...]
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New Studies
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged emer, emerging adulthood, identity development on March 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
William Damon on Character Education
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged character education, emerging adulthood on March 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
An important interview with William Damon from the Chronicle of Higher Education. An excerpt: Q: How do you see your work in the context of the school-reform movement? The message of my work is that schools need to give students a better understanding of why they are in school in the first place — that is, [...]