Student Student Life category: 717 books
Educational Genocide
A Plague on Our Children
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
Across our country educational policies and practices are killing our students' desire to learn and teachers' passion to teach. The central theme of this book is that high-stakes testing is having a critically deleterious effect on our students. The fallout impacts parents, teachers, schools, districts...
by Sandra McCune
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
A no-nonsense practical guide to statistics, providing concise summaries, clear model examples, and plenty of practice, making this workbook the ideal complement to class study or self-study, preparation for exams or a brush-up on rusty skills.
About the Book
Established as a successful practical...
Campus Confidential
How College Works, or Doesn't, for Professors, Parents, and Students
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
A tenured prof. breaks ranks to reveal what's wrong with American higher education and how it affects you.
Professors can be underpaid. Marginalized. Over-reviewed. But one fact remains: The success of your education depends on them. Part industry expose and part call for a return to engaged...
Reaching and Teaching Students in Poverty
Strategies for Erasing the Opportunity Gap
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This influential book describes the knowledge and skills educators need to recognize and combat the bias and inequity that undermine educational engagement for students experiencing poverty. This edition features revisions based on new research and lessons from the author’s professional development...
Western Structures Meet Native Traditions
The Interfaces of Educational Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
As Western educational practices have become global, the cultural aspects and the problems associated with them have become more apparent as they are contrasted with local ways of learning and knowing in the widely diverse societies around the world. The Western world has tended to assume that its...
by Nicole Maestas, Sarah J. Gaillot
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
This report presents results from a multisite, quantitative evaluation of the international Success for Kids (SFK) after-school program. A nonreligious program, SFK seeks to build resilience in children. Interestingly, the authors found that the program positively affected not just social and internal...
Inquiry-Based Learning
Designing Instruction to Promote Higher Level Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
Inquiry-Based Learning: Designing Instruction to Promote Higher Level Thinking focuses on learning and pedagogy around inquiry using technology as a cognitive tool. Specific inferences and applications of learning through an inquiry approach are explored and illustrations are drawn from educational...
by Sandra McCune, William D. Clark
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
For students who need to polish their calculus skills for class or for a critical exam, this no-nonsense practical guide provides concise summaries, clear model examples, and plenty of practice, practice, practice.
About the Book
With more than 1,000,000 copies sold, Practice Makes Perfect...
by Daniel Marques
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
What can teachers with dozens of years of experience in different countries prove about hierarchy in the classroom was the subject of analysis that led to the resume of the laws expressed in this book.
The conclusions presented here aren't suggested or proposed as examples of a good teaching profile,...
by Dr. Paul Toote
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2012
Finally a complete guide that covers each step from your High School years to your final goal of becoming a doctor. In this book you will find step-by-step instructions in plain terms that will demystify the medical school admission process. My goal is that once you complete this book and follow the...
Admission Matters
What Students and Parents Need to Know About Getting into College
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
Make sense of college admissions and prepare a successful application
Admission Matters offers comprehensive, expert, and practical advice for parents and students to guide them through the college admissions process. From building a college list, to understanding standardized tests, to obtaining...
Identity, Social Activism, and the Pursuit of Higher Education
The Journey Stories of Undocumented and Unafraid Community Activists
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
The topic of immigration has become increasingly volatile in U.S. society, and undocumented college students play a central role in mobilizing and politicizing a critical mass of activists to push forth a pro-immigration agenda, in particular the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors...
by Dan Clark
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
The Truth Of Your Character Is Expressed
Through The Choice Of Your Actions
Personality Is Exposed When A Person Is Up
Character Is Exposed When A Person Is Down
People With Good Intentions Make Promises
People With Good Character Keep Them
Your thoughts become words
Your words...
Helping Doctoral Students Write
Pedagogies for supervision
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Helping Doctoral Students Write offers a proven approach to effective doctoral writing. By treating research as writing and writing as research, the authors offer pedagogical strategies for doctoral supervisors that will assist the production of well-argued and lively dissertations.
It is clear...