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The Early Admissions Game: Joining the Elitereviewed by Fred Jacobs - 2004 Title: The Early Admissions Game: Joining the Elite Author(s): Christopher Avery, Andrew Fairbanks & Richard Zeckhauser
Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge ISBN: 0674010558, Pages: 377, Year: 2003 Search for book at Amazon.com Recently, the state of Maryland increased the minimum age for
obtaining a driver's license from sixteen to eighteen. This was
advocated as a matter of public safety since a disproportional
number of auto accidents and fatalities involved sixteen to twenty
year olds. While the overall effect of this change has been
positive, with a decline in the number of accidents and deaths,
some teens have lamented the lost opportunity to get behind the
wheel-and take off. They argue that the change in minimum age adds
to the general emotional and psychological pressures they face, and
delays their transition to adulthood.
Certainly, teenagers face varied pressures as they move toward
independent lives, including uncertainties about professional
choices, economic prospects, education beyond secondary school, and
rapid social change. For most high school students, the age change
from sixteen to eighteen moves the angst associated with that rite
of passage (Will I pass the test? Will I have my own car? Will I be
able to afford its... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Fred Jacobs
American University E-mail Author Frederic Jacobs is a professor of education at American University, Washington DC. Professor Jacobs was an administrator and faculty member at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY before joining American University as Dean of Faculties in 1985. Since 1993, he has been a full time member of the faculty, and serves as Director of the Ph.D. program. His current research focuses on adult literacy and adult participation in postsecondary education.
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