Looking ahead, Lyons plans to expand Company 4’s influence while strengthening its role in youth development and nonprofit programming. The foundation and business ventures reflect a long-term ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. Recent research on adolescent development has underscored important behavioral ...

Adolescence is the pivotal period between childhood and adulthood. It is the time when youth need to acquire the attitudes, competencies, values, and social skills that will carry them forward to ...

Until recently, the prevailing belief was that brain development ceased at around the time a child entered kindergarten (i.e., that the brain is 90-95% formed by age six). However, recent findings ...