Student category: 717 books
Empowering Men of Color on Campus
Building Student Community in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
While recruitment efforts toward men of color have increased at many colleges and universities, their retention and graduation rates still lag behind those of their white peers. Men of color, particularly black and Latino men, face a number of unique challenges in their educational careers that often...
Handbook of Social Influences in School Contexts
Social-Emotional, Motivation, and Cognitive Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
The Handbook of Social Influences in School Contexts draws from a growing body of research on how and why various aspects of social relationships and contexts contribute to children’s social and academic functioning within school settings. Comprised of the latest studies in developmental and educational...
by Ernest J. Zarra III PhD
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Helping Parents Understand the Minds and Hearts of Generation Z takes parents into the daily lives of their 24-7, wired-up children. It allows parents and children to speak for themselves. This highly practical book provides parents insights into how Gen Z thinks, the ways their brains learn, and...
Everything Happens for the Best. Or, Embrace Events and Challenges
SHORT STORY #22. Nonfiction series #1 - # 60.
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2016
The author received a devastated news. After 4th semester she was expelled from her civil engineering university. The reason was: she did not passed a calculus exam. When the truth was: the math professors had a crush on her, on a timid and a shy teenager. His crush was so obvious that a class of...
Living Democracy
Communities as Classrooms, Students as Citizens
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
At Auburn University, in Alabama, students may take part in a summer-long embedded community experience called “Living Democracy.” This project has its roots in higher education's long history of civic engagement, but it takes a different perspective than traditional service learning programs....
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...
Schooling Sexual Cultures
Visual Research in Sexuality Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Moving beyond the traditional focus on curriculum and pedagogy, this volume explores hidden dimensions of sexuality education in schools and how sexual meanings are produced. Challenging the standard understandings of sexuality education, Allen discusses how students’ knowledge of sexualities is...
Downed by Friendly Fire
Black Girls, White Girls, and Suburban Schooling
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Most Americans would never willingly revisit their high school experiences; the nation’s school systems reflect the broader society’s hierarchical emphasis on race, class, and gender. While schools purport to provide equal opportunities for all students, this rarely happens in actuality—particularly...
Not a Toy, but a Tool
An Educator’s Guide for Understanding and Using iPads
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
iPads are powerful tools for engaging students, encouraging creativity, stimulating critical thinking, and making significant strides in learning. This book is part of a two book set that will allow educators to realize the full potential of the iPad. Over 200 highly rated apps are covered with specific...
The Roots of Low Achievement
Where to Begin Altering Them
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2019
The chief purpose of this book is to explain how public education in this country became dysfunctional as a result of the education policies and programs funded by the federal government to address low academic achievement. It highlights student effort as a central factor in academic achievement,...
Teacher as Traveler
Enhancing the Intercultural Development of Teachers and Students
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
The essence of this second edition, under the revised title Teacher as Traveler: Enhancing the Intercultural Development of Teachers and Students, is to examine the development of intercultural competence through various dimensions of student travel, study abroad and intercultural encounters. Cushner,...
Minimizing Transition Loss
The Hand-off from Middle School to High School
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
The transition from middle school to high school poses as one of the most challenging transitions students will make in their academic career in grades K-12. The transition from grade eight to grade posts the greatest loss with the highest dropout rates nationally occurring during this transition....
Campus Life
In Search of Community—Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019
In 1990, under the direction of Ernest Boyer, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching published a classic report on the loss of a meaningful basis for true community on college campuses—and in the nation. Now this expanded edition of Campus Life: In Search of Community reintroduces...
Disability and World Language Learning
Inclusive Teaching for Diverse Learners
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
The release of a report by the Modern Language Association, “Foreign Languages and Higher Education: New Structures for a Changed World,” focused renewed attention on college foreign language instruction at the introductory level. Frequently, the report finds, these beginning courses are taught...