Nancy Lesko is Maxine Greene Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University.

• Acknowledgments, Series Editor’s Introduction Michael W. Apple, Introduction Troubling Teenagers 1. Up and Down the Great Chain of Being Progress and Degeneration in Children, Race, and Nation 2. Making Adolescence at the Turn of the Century Romancing and Administering Youth 3. Back to the Future Model Middle Schools Recirculate Fin-de-Siècle Ideas 4. Time Matters in Adolescence 5.Cold War Containments: Freedom, Youth, and Identity in the 1950s 6."Before Their Time" Teenage Mothers Violate the Order of Proper Development 7. Our Guys/Good Guys Playing with High School Athletic Privilege and Power 8. When the Romance Is Gone…Youth Development In New Times 9. Cutting Free from the Great Chain of Being Toward Untimely Teenagers Afterword to the Second Edition Notes References Author Index Subject Index

"Lesko achieves the unusual feat of producing an utterly readable and compelling story of new perspectives on adolescence, yet one which is an impressive exemplar of new theory and sustained scholarship. The book is down to earth yet theoretically challenging. It is an exciting as well as important addition to the current array of writing about young people and turns much of that writing on its head." -- Lyn Yates, author of The Education of Girls

Nancy Lesko is Maxine Greene Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University.

• Acknowledgments, Series Editor’s Introduction Michael W. Apple, Introduction Troubling Teenagers 1. Up and Down the Great Chain of Being Progress and Degeneration in Children, Race, and Nation 2. Making Adolescence at the Turn of the Century Romancing and Administering Youth 3. Back to the Future Model Middle Schools Recirculate Fin-de-Siècle Ideas 4. Time Matters in Adolescence 5.Cold War Containments: Freedom, Youth, and Identity in the 1950s 6."Before Their Time" Teenage Mothers Violate the Order of Proper Development 7. Our Guys/Good Guys Playing with High School Athletic Privilege and Power 8. When the Romance Is Gone…Youth Development In New Times 9. Cutting Free from the Great Chain of Being Toward Untimely Teenagers Afterword to the Second Edition Notes References Author Index Subject Index

"Lesko achieves the unusual feat of producing an utterly readable and compelling story of new perspectives on adolescence, yet one which is an impressive exemplar of new theory and sustained scholarship. The book is down to earth yet theoretically challenging. It is an exciting as well as important addition to the current array of writing about young people and turns much of that writing on its head." -- Lyn Yates, author of The Education of Girls

Nancy Lesko is Maxine Greene Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University.

• Acknowledgments, Series Editor’s Introduction Michael W. Apple, Introduction Troubling Teenagers 1. Up and Down the Great Chain of Being Progress and Degeneration in Children, Race, and Nation 2. Making Adolescence at the Turn of the Century Romancing and Administering Youth 3. Back to the Future Model Middle Schools Recirculate Fin-de-Siècle Ideas 4. Time Matters in Adolescence 5.Cold War Containments: Freedom, Youth, and Identity in the 1950s 6."Before Their Time" Teenage Mothers Violate the Order of Proper Development 7. Our Guys/Good Guys Playing with High School Athletic Privilege and Power 8. When the Romance Is Gone…Youth Development In New Times 9. Cutting Free from the Great Chain of Being Toward Untimely Teenagers Afterword to the Second Edition Notes References Author Index Subject Index

"Lesko achieves the unusual feat of producing an utterly readable and compelling story of new perspectives on adolescence, yet one which is an impressive exemplar of new theory and sustained scholarship. The book is down to earth yet theoretically challenging. It is an exciting as well as important addition to the current array of writing about young people and turns much of that writing on its head." -- Lyn Yates, author of The Education of Girls