Student Student Life category: 717 books
by Elizabeth A. Armstrong, Laura T. Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
In an era of skyrocketing tuition and concern over whether college is “worth it,” Paying for the Party is an indispensable contribution to the dialogue assessing the state of American higher education. A powerful exposé of unmet obligations and misplaced priorities, it explains in detail why so many leave college with so little to show for it.
Learning Privilege
Lessons of Power and Identity in Affluent Schooling
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
How can teachers bridge the gap between their commitments to social justice and their day to day practice? This is the question author Adam Howard asked as he began teaching at an elite private school and the question that led him to conduct a six-year study on affluent schooling. Unfamiliar with...
From Family Collapse to America's Decline
The Educational, Economic, and Social Costs of Family Fragmentation
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Very high rates of family fragmentation in the United States are subtracting from what very large numbers of students are learning in school and forever holding them back in many other ways. This in turn is damaging the country economically by making us less primed for innovation while also making...
The Growing Out-of-School Time Field
Past, Present, and Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
The Information Age Publishing new book series, Current Issues in Out-of-School Time, is designed with a purpose to disseminate original research and promising practices that further the OST field. This first book sets the foundation on which the series rests upon, by offering an analysis of the progress...
Harnessing The Power Of Concentration
Improve Concentration Using Brain Exercise Games, Cognitive Exercises, Memorization Techniques And Effective Study Skills So You Can Focus Your Mind To Study Hard, Work Better And Do Anything Extremely Well
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
When you concentrate, you control and influence the direction of all your thought and effort towards a particular task or idea. The logic is simple therefore: if you are able to put your mind into something with more focus and at a greater length of time, then the more your mind can absorb the information...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011
Substance use among college students can result in serious academic and safety problems and have long-term negative repercussions. This state-of-the-art volume draws on the latest research on students’ alcohol and drug use to provide useful suggestions for how to address this critical issue on college...
Making the Most of College
Students Speak Their Minds
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2004
What choices can students in America make and what can teachers and university leaders do to improve more students' experiences and help them make the most of their time and monetary investment? Two Harvard University presidents invited Richard Light and his colleagues to explore these and other questions,...
Your College Admissions Game Plan 2015-2016
50+ tips, strategies, and essential checklists for a winning college application for 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th Graders
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
The essential pocket guide to making the most of high school, updated for today’s ninth through 12th-graders.
Is it too early to start applying for college scholarships in ninth grade? Do I need to take AP classes and AP tests? How important are extracurricular activities when applying to...
Battling Bias
The Struggle for Identity and Community on College Campuses
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1995
Politicians, philosophers, and academics have spent countless hours debating the issues of greatest concern on college campuses today: multiculturalism, political correctness, race relations, sexual politics, and gender. But what has been noticeably missing from their discussions are the voices of...
Cultural Capital and Black Education
African American Communities and the Funding of Black
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004
A discussion of the contributions made by African Americans to public and private black schools in the USA in the 19th and 20th centuries. It suggests that cultural capital from African American communities may be important for closing the gap in the funding of black schools in the 21st century.
Summary: Boys Adrift - Leonard Sax
The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
Complete summary of Leonard Sax's book: "Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men".This summary of the ideas from Leonard Sax's book "Boys Adrift" examines the five factors that are critical for the development of underachieving boys....
Pregnant Bodies, Fertile Minds
Gender, Race, and the Schooling of Pregnant Teens
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Focusing on fifty girls enrolled in a model public school program for pregnant teens, Luttrell explores how pregnant girls experience society's view of them and also considers how these girls view themselves and the choices they've made. Also includes an 8-page color insert.
School Education in India
Market, State and Quality
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
This volume examines how the public and private domains in school education in India are informed and mediated by current market realities. It moves beyond the simplistic dichotomy of pro-state versus promarket factors that define most current debates in the formulations of educational reform agendas...
The Pivotal Year
How Freshmen Can Become Sophomores
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2004
The failure of ninth grade students at the state and national level is astronomical and the percentage of students who are retained in the grade or drop out of school as a result has not changed significantly in the past ten years. Freshman year in high school is truly a pivotal year in the lives...