Student category: 717 books
The Challenges of Mandating School Uniforms in the Public Schools
Free Speech, Research, and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
School uniform polices, often associated with private schools, are increasingly being adopted in public schools; but not without controversy. The often asserted reasons for mandating uniforms include improved student behavior, better attendance, less competition over clothing, and improved student...
Exciting Classrooms
Practical Information to Ensure Student Success
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Frank Thoms writes with passion to invite principals and teachers to make changes that will allow all students to succeed. In this book he urges them to reconsider traditional practices in light of today’s media-driven culture and digitally wired students. Exciting Classrooms is sensitive to the...
Student Leadership Development Through Recreation and Athletics
New Directions for Student Leadership, Number 147
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
Developing college students’ leadership capacity has become an essential outcome in higher education over the past decade. Collegiate recreation and intercollegiate athletics are two unique environments that often integrate leadership development initiatives. This volume explores the developing...
Lost in Transition
Redefining Students and Universities in the Contemporary Kyrgyz Republic
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Being a “student” has been and remains a highly desirable status for young people and their families in Kyrgyzstan. “Giving their children education” (dat detyam obrazovaniye) meaning “higher education” has become an imperative for many parents, even in a time of serious economic and social...
Student Revolt
Voices of the Austerity Generation
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
*Selected as one of openDemocracy's Best Political Books of 2017**BR**BR*Whatever happened to the student revolt? In 2010 young people across Britain took to the streets to defy a wave of government attacks on education, increasing tuition fees, and cuts to grants for college students. Months of occupations,...
Black Student Politics
Higher Education and Apartheid from SASO to SANSCO, 1968-1990
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Black Student Politics, Higher Education and Apartheid examines two black national higher education student political organizations - the South African National Students' Congress (SANSCO) and the South African Students' Organization (SASO), popularly associated with Black Consciousness. It analyzes...
by The Princeton Review
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
Featuring advice from students and administrators at more than seventy of the nation’s top colleges, the Gay and Lesbian Guide to College Life lets you know how to how to thrive on campus as a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and/or questioning student. Including tons of student testimonials...
Identity Development of College Students
Advancing Frameworks for Multiple Dimensions of Identity
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Identity Development of College Students
Building off the foundational work of Erik Erikson and Arthur Chickering, Identity Development of College Students adds broad and innovative research to describe contemporary perspectives of identity development at the intersection of context, personal...
by Dhawal Harkawat
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2017
This books talks about the life of an engineering student, from beginning of his school age, till he becomes an engineering graduate, covering all the interesting stories that happens in the process. This book wide opens the mind of an engineer, life of an engineer and challenges to an engineer, to...
The Critical Graduate Experience
An Ethics of Higher Education Responsibilities
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
The Critical Graduate Experience is a collection of scholarly reflections on the possibilities of a new vision for critical studies. It is a remarkable book that provides daring analyses from the vantage of the graduate student experience. Drawing from individual knowledge and research, the authors...
Critical Perspectives on Gender and Student Leadership
New Directions for Student Leadership, Number 154
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
How do students’ social identities, particularly their gender, influence their leadership practices and development? Using Kimberlé Crenshaw’s concept of intersectionality as a framework, this volume discusses existing and emergent research on gender and leadership and offers key strategies and...
by Irma L. Almager
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Maribel’s First Day is a narrative description of the first day of school experience for a teenage Mexican American high school student. During this one school day, Maribel Rivera goes to five teachers’ classrooms and describes what she sees, hears and determines how she will judge these experiences....
by Salim Aziz
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2013
Whether you are going back to school or are suffering a financial hardship, you may need to defer payments on your student loans until your situation has changed. Our guide, how to defer student loans, will help you through the process of requesting a deferment from your lender.
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Student Mobility
Creating an Environment for Social and Academic Success
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Student mobility is an issue that affects school districts large and small across the nation. Schools can do very little to control the causes of mobility, but a great deal can be done to reduce the negative effects for mobile students through effective planning and consistent practices. Schools must...