Student category: 717 books
The Student Success Action Guide
A Daily Guide to Help You Succeed This School Year
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Achieve Student Success by applying these simple steps. This quick and easy read gives students strategies, techniques and tips to succeed in school today and every day. There are 180 steps students can take each day for the entire school year. Each step is easy yet profoundly powerful. Each step...
by Abhishek Thakore
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Success today depends a lot on your academic achievements. And to excel in studies, you do not have to be just an intelligent student — but also one who knows how to manage studies and time. This book, brings you an innovative system specifically designed for super achievement.
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...
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’...
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...
They Said What?!
.......Again?
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
Fasten your seatbelts as you take a hilarious and shocking journey through the minds of teenagers. Learn their views of history, geography, politics, and relationships among other things. Jeff Necessary places you front row and center for this amazing journey. You will laugh. You might cry. You might...
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...
Academic Advising
A Comprehensive Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2011
One of the challenges in higher education is helping students to achieve academic success while ensuring their personal and vocational needs are fulfilled. In this updated edition more than thirty experts offer their knowledge in what has become the most comprehensive, classic reference on academic...
Engaging Youth in Leadership for Social and Political Change
New Directions for Student Leadership, Number 148
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Youth leadership initiatives can help young people engage in democratic life, participatory governance, and social and political change. Leadership education oriented towards political and social change must continue to evolve in response to the lived experience of youth. This volume explores those...
Mentoring Matters
A Toolkit for Organizing and Operating Student Advisory Programs
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
As schools are trying to connect with their students and assure that every student has an adult mentor in the building, the need for school-based mentoring programs could not be
Our Schools Suck
Students Talk Back to a Segregated Nation on the Failures of Urban Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
"Our schools suck." This is how many young people of color call attention to the kind of public education they are receiving. In cities across the nation, many students are trapped in under-funded, mismanaged and unsafe schools. Yet, a number of scholars and of public figures like Bill Cosby have...
by Asiapac Editorial
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
Impart values of filial piety, trust-worthiness, love for the community and love for learning.