Student Student Life category: 717 books
Raise Your Kids to Succeed
What Every Parent Should Know
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
Raising Your Kids to Succeed: What Every Parent Should Know describes what parents can do to be effective and help their children succeed, both in school and in life. Part I opens with some big, foundational questions, including the need for parents to realize their own importance. It goes on to discuss...
The Indoor Epidemic
How Parents, Teachers, and Kids Can Start an Outdoor Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
The Indoor Epidemic is an accessible, readable book that educators, parents, policymakers, and general readers can use to develop an in-depth understanding of the role the outdoors has played in our evolutionary and cultural history—and how it affects their own daily life. Readers will be astounded...
PUBLIC SCHOOL ADVENTURES
One Educator's Unusual 36 Year Journey Into and Through Our Public Schools
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2017
Public School Adventures is the story of one educator’s unusual and convoluted journey into and through our public schools. It follows his unlikely 36 year trip into teaching, and shares many real life stories about his students and their parents and teachers. The story continues through his years...
Healthy Children
How Parents, Teachers and Community Can Help To Prevent Obesity in Children
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
This book is geared towards educators, teachers, administrators and parents of young children especially with health issues. The book will contribute to the literature in the field focusing on national and international concern about childhood obesity, highlighting the problems with obesity pre-diabetes,...
A Prison Called School
Creating Effective Schools for All Learners
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Many students struggle to survive a system that has become yet another obstacle in their life to overcome. The current, one-size-fits-all educational model requires students to adapt to the system, but in order for students to thrive, schools, not the students, must change in deep and substantial...
How to Survive Your Freshman Year
By Hundreds of Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors Who Did
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
How to Survive Your Freshman Year (6th edition) is the perfect send-off gift for college-bound high school graduates. This revamped edition of America's #1 college advice guide includes new advice from hundreds of college students from around the country, alongside the best timeless advice from earlier...
Coming of Age in U.S. High Schools
Economic, Kinship, Religious, and Political Crosscurrents
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2004
Coming of Age in U.S. High Schools: Economic, Kinship, Religious, and Political Crosscurrents takes readers into the lives of urban and suburban adolescents for a close-up look at how they navigate the conflicting discourses and disciplinary practices of American cultural crosscurrents that flow through...
AfricanAmerican MiddleIncome Parents
How Are They Involved in Their Children's Literacy Development?
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
"Ethel Robinson has written an amazing book. As she wisely argues, despite a rapidly growing middle and upper class, popular media and public debates continue to view AfricanAmerican families from a deficit perspective. Portrayals of AfricanAmerican families in newspapers, television, and contemporary...
Welcome to College 2nd ed
A Christ-Follower's Guide for the Journey
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
"The single best volume I have ever read for preparing students for how to follow Jesus and flourish as his disciple in college."--J. P. Moreland
Is there a more frightening question for a graduating high school senior than "What will you do with your life?" In college,...
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2017
Learn all about how scholarship programs are designed to support the students in all of their educational needs!
Scholarship programs where designed to support the students in all of their educational needs. These educational financial supports were created to support the students in the process...
Urban Dreams
Stories of Hope, Resilience and Character
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2007
Urban Dreams: Stories of Hope, Resilience, and Character is a collection of essays written by students in an urban community in New Jersey. The essays are the encapsulated life stories of their authors, writers from urban elementary, middle, and high schools were given a chance to reflect on their...
by Jennifer Hanson
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 1996
Geared to equip students for the front lines of the college experience, The College Handbook is a funny and insightful manual on everything a freshman needs to know to make the transition from high school to college, from home life to dorm life. From filling out the dreaded roommate questionnaire...
Writing From the Margins
Exploring the Writing Practices of Youth in the Juvenile Justice System
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
The book is a critical examination of the complex role of writing in court-involved young adults’ lives. The purpose of this book is to provide an in-depth look at how writing might possibly be the best opportunity to give students multiple tools to deal with their circumstances in life: to give...
What’s the Right Thing to Do?
Promoting Thoughtful and Socially Responsible Behavior in the Early Childhood Years
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2019
Making choices is one of the more pervasive acts of life. Almost every action we take demands that choices be made. Knowing how to choose wisely, to choose after reflection, to be aware of what motivates that choice, to see the consequences of that choice on others enables us to live healthier, more...