◎ Contents 1. Meeting the essentisal requirements for healthy adolescent development in a transforming world 2. Adapting educational systems to youth adolescents and new conditions 3. The impact of school reform for the middle grades: A longitudinal study of a network engaged in Turning Points-based comprehensive school transformation 4. School for the middle years: Developments in Europe 5. The role of the school in comprehensive health promotion 6. Education for healthy futures: Health promise and life skills training 7. HUMBIO: Stanfond Umiversity's human biology curriculum for the middle grades 8. Education for living in pluriethnic societies 9. The economic of education and traininf in the face of changing production and employment structures 10. School-to-work processes in United States 11. Finding common ground: Implications for policies in Europe and the United State