As the fall term winds down, have any students enabled you to cling to The Myth of First-Year Enlightenment? Here's what Tim Clydesdale, an associate professor of sociology at the College of New Jersey and author of The First Year Out: Understanding American Teens After High School (University of Chicago Press, 2007), writes on the topic: “Most of the mainstream American teens I spoke with neither liberated themselves intellectually nor broadened themselves socially during their first year out." ... “What teens … [Read more...] about The Myth of First-Year Enlightenment