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10 Steps to Succeeding in College (And Having a Ball Doing It)
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
College is the best four years of your life, as the saying goes. So what makes this experience so wonderful for some students, and not so wonderful for others? The answer is simple: knowing what to expect, preparing for it, and following the steps provided to ensure you not only successfully complete...
Welcome to College!
101 Ways to Rock Your World
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
Praise for Welcome to College! From your college ID to your digital identity, the next four years will strongly define your life. This book will help you decide how you want that definition to read. Eric Stoller, Inside Higher Ed Dayna has a simple yet effective way of teaching success. From orientation...
by Justin Ross Muchnick
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Peterson’s The Boarding School Survival Guide a must-read for all new boarders! The guide will tell you all you need to know to navigate school away from home.
Written in the first person about the boarding school experience, the author shares personal stories to highlight the reasons to...
by Tochi J. Okoro
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2017
Excellence is what makes the difference in the color of our skins, the language of our tribes, the location of our nationality and the everyday expressions of our lives. The alphabet ‘A’ represents excellence extraordinaire.
We live in a world where none wants to fail, wants to be considered...
by Adam Ruben
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
This is a book for dedicated academics who consider spending years masochistically overworked and underappreciated as a laudable goal. They lead the lives of the impoverished, grade the exams of whiny undergrads, and spend lonely nights in the library or laboratory pursuing a transcendent truth that...
The Overachievers
The Secret Lives of Driven Kids
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2006
The bestselling author of Pledged returns with a groundbreaking look at the pressure to achieve faced by America's teens
In Pledged, Alexandra Robbins followed four college girls to produce a riveting narrative that read like fiction. Now, in The Overachievers, Robbins uses the same captivating...
Character Compass
How Powerful School Culture Can Point Students Toward Success
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
In Character Compass, Scott Seider offers portraits of three high-performing urban schools in Boston, Massachusetts that have made character development central to their mission of supporting student success, yet define character in three very different ways.
One school focuses on students’...
How to Be a High School Superstar
A Revolutionary Plan to Get into College by Standing Out (Without Burning Out)
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2010
Do Less, Live More, Get Accepted
What if getting into your reach schools didn’t require four years of excessive A.P. classes, overwhelming activity schedules, and constant stress?
In How to Be a High School Superstar, Cal Newport explores the world of relaxed superstars—students...
My Freshman Year
What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2006
After fifteen years of teaching anthropology at a large university, Rebekah Nathan had become baffled by her own students. Their strange behavior—eating meals at their desks, not completing reading assignments, remaining silent through class discussions—made her feel as if she were dealing with...
Surviving College
How NOT to Take College Too Seriously, and Still Survive
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
You will embarrass yourself, lose all your friends, and FAIL COLLEGE!
This is the statement most people hear inside their own head.
Seriously…
Being a college student, as described by most... if not all people, is absolutely BRUTAL!
You need to stay up late most of the...
Banishing Bullying Behavior
Transforming the Culture of Pain, Rage, and Revenge
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Fried and Sosland bring their combined experiences together to present a blueprint to reduce the pain, rage and revenge cycle of bullying. Their strategies have been captured from hands-on interaction with educators, parents and students. Their premise comes from the apocryphal village that is being...
Duty First
A Year in the Life of West Point and the Making of American Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Duty First is a penetrating account of a year inside one of America's premier schools for leadership -- the United States Military Academy -- as it celebrates the bicentennial of its founding. Ed Ruggero, a former West Point cadet and professor, takes an incisive look at how this elite school builds...
Be Honest
And Other Advice from Students Across the Country
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2009
Students speak up about American education in this book from 826 National, the celebrated tutoring center founded by Dave Eggers and Nínive Calegari.
This unique volume collects personal essays, letters, and stories by dozens of high school students who were given the chance to speak their...
by Matt Green
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011
As the competition for University places continues to increase, the Personal Statement section of the University application has never been so important. In approximately 600 words, a prospective University student must capture and hold the attention of the admissions tutors - in essence, it may be their...