Barbara Schneider, PhD, John A. Hannah Chair and Distinguished Professor, College of Education and Department of Sociology, Michigan State University; Co-Director, Alfred P. Sloan Center on Parents, Children, and Work; Principal Investigator, Center on Advancing Research in Communication in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, The University of Chicago; Co-Author, Becoming Adult: How Teenagers Prepare for the World of Work (2001, with Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, PhD), and The Ambitious Generation: America 's Teenagers, Motivated but Directionless, (2000)