Student category: 717 books
Let the Students Speak!
A History of the Fight for Free Expression in American Schools
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
From a trusted scholar and powerful story teller, an accessible and lively history of free speech, for and about students.
Let the Students Speak! details the rich history and growth of the First Amendment in public schools, from the early nineteenth-century's failed student free-expression...
Achieving Results
Maximizing Student Success in the Schoolhouse
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
As a result of this distressing information on the challenges facing our educators, this book was written to highlight approaches and strategies that have been found to improve student outcomes. Administrative factors, educational policy and law, implementation of evidence-based teaching practices,...
Real College
The Essential Guide to Student Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2004
Few people have as much experience helping students cope with college life as Douglas Stone, a long-time Harvard residential adviser and coauthor of Difficult Conversations, and Elizabeth Tippett, recent Harvard graduate and founding director of the university?s peer mediation program. In Real College,...
by Raechele L. Pope, Amy L. Reynolds, John A. Mueller
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Embrace the best practices for initiating multicultural change in individuals, groups, and institutions
Higher education institutions have begun to take steps toward addressing multicultural issues on campuses, but more often than not, those in charge of the task have received little to no...
by Charlie Weaver Rolfe
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
A hilarious and poignant novel about the end of the world, before and after, as experienced by apparently its lone survivor, who hadn't been paying attention. Following an unforeseen apocalyptic event, Clifford, an in-no-way-dedicated student, still sleeping on his best friend's sofa after...
We Are All Equal
Student Culture and Identity at a Mexican Secondary School, 1988–1998
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2001
We Are All Equal is the first full-length ethnography of a Mexican secondary school available in English. Bradley A. U. Levinson observes student life at a provincial Mexican junior high, often drawing on poignant and illuminating interviews, to study how the the school’s powerful emphasis on equality,...
by Toni Summers Hargis
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
In today's global world, many students attend universities outside the country, culture and education system in which they were born or grew up. For an increasing number, the USA will be their aim, but few will have an understanding of the US education system, the best universities for their field...
by Carol Madison Graham
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Today, more and more students are choosing to study overseas. Most relish this opportunity to become "student ambassadors" for their country and community, and eagerly anticipate engaging with the people at their chosen destination. In many cases, however, they quickly encounter obstacles.In Coping with...
by Miguel Gonzalez III
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
Finish In 4 serves as a huge “HEADS UP” and assists the student in properly planning for an academically successful college experience. This timely and valuable book contains advice that is simple, direct, and written for the students! It addresses the questions that parents may not be equipped...
Campus Traditions
Folklore from the Old-Time College to the Modern Mega-University
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
From their beginnings, campuses emerged as hotbeds of traditions and folklore. American college students inhabit a culture with its own slang, stories, humor, beliefs, rituals, and pranks. Simon J. Bronner takes a long, engaging look at American campus life and how it is shaped by students and at...
Building Academic Literacy
Engaging All Learners in Every Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
Building Academic Literacy is a coach-in-a-pocket for educators seeking to build strong academic literacy and higher-order thinking. This book is for anyone with responsibility for instruction – teachers, instructional coaches, professional developers, principals, curriculum leaders, teacher preparation...
75 Ways to Be a Better Teacher Tomorrow
With Less Stress and Quick Success
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Highly effective teachers have something in common: They do simple things extraordinarily well—simple, uncomplicated things on a daily basis. In this new book by bestselling authors and presenters Annette Breaux and Todd Whitaker, you’ll learn the secrets of these tried-and-true techniques that...
by Joanne M. Weselby
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
If you’re a mature student headed for University, or you’re thinking about going back to school but haven’t made up your mind yet, then this book is meant for you!
Enclosed within the following chapters are a few hints, tips and anecdotes intended to help you to make the most of both...
by Cyril Mugove Siringwani
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Multitudes of students graduate worldwide from colleges and universities. Regrettably, many of them are not ready to make an impact on the world as they leave college, and become life victims and not victors. Worse still, some spoil their lives through negative influences and leave college in a worse...