Student Student Life category: 717 books
Alumni Associations
A Simple Guide To Why And How
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
Are you thinking about establishing an alumni association, or do you want to grow and improve your existing alumni association?This book is prime reading material for anyone in education who is interested in developing the community relations of their school or organisation. In particular, the concept...
Is College a Lousy Investment?
Negotiating the Hidden Costs of Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Is College a Lousy Investment?: Negotiating the Hidden Cost of Higher Education discusses many of the economic misconceptions about earning a college degree. While it is widely believed that attending college guarantees wealth and success, students, concerned parents, and higher education professionals...
Indigenous Peoples
Education and Equity
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
International Advances in Education: Global Initiatives for Equity and Social Justice is an international research monograph of scholarly works that are seeking to advance knowledge and understanding of a diverse range of Indigenous or First Peoples across the globe. With the overarching emphasis...
Look Before Leaping
Risks, Liabilities, and Repair of Study Abroad in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
Look before Leaping merges court trends and cases, experts’ first-hand accounts and recommendations of best practices, currently used risk-averting documents, and essential texts to bring a comprehensive study of the most common risks, liabilities, and needed repair for study abroad in higher education.
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Teaching Girls
How Teachers and Parents Can Reach Their Brains and Hearts
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Women continue to be underrepresented in the high paying fields of science, math, and engineering. They receive only about 80% of the salary of men holding similar jobs in any field and still face glass ceilings that limit their attainment. How do we educate and empower girls to surmount these barriers...
News Literacy
Helping Students and Teachers Decode Fake News
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
Our society faces international challenges from cyber attacks and dissemination of fake news with a goal to destabilize our society. Fake news can be used as a weapon with destructive effects as powerful as any military attack. Fake news can spread as fast as a wildfire carried on the winds of social...
Money for Good Grades and Other Myths About Motivating Kids
Strategies for Parents and Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2019
In this helpful resource, the author guides parents through the top eight myths about motivation and reveals what really works for kids. Each chapter is filled with practical information and stories that help you understand how to handle a variety of situations related to your child’s success...
Civility, Compassion, and Courage in Schools Today
Strategies for Implementing in K-12 Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
Over the past two decades, and perhaps even before the “No Child Left Behind Act,” policy makers and others have managed to drain civility, compassion, and courage from everyday classroom instruction. We have grown to become an educational system that is almost solely focused on academics at the...
by Angela Stone
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Confidence is so essential for a teenage girl. Renowned fashion stylist, television personality, business woman, and author Angela Stone understands this even better than most. Now Angela wants to share her vast experience and expertise with the young women so they can start looking and feeling great!...
War or Common Cause?
A Critical Ethnography of Language Education Policy, Race, and Cultural Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
This book on bilingual education policy represents a multidimensional and longitudinal study of “policy processes” as they play out on the ground (a single school in Los Angeles), and over time (both within the same school, and also within the state of Georgia). In order to reconstruct this complex...
by H. E. Holliday
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
One of America's greatest challenges is to reverse the steep decline of the intellectual performance of its young men. The dramatic increase in violent acts and the downward spiral of high stakes testing in our schools has confirmed that many of our young men have lost hope or simply given up. Reconnecting,...
Inspiration is Key
Unconventional Strategies to Motivate and Support Students
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
Would you like to encourage greater academic passion in your students, interact with them more influentially, and be extraordinarily effective in inspiring them on a daily basis?
Then this is the book for you!
This book is a collection of unconventional classroom approaches, lessons,...
Bullying from Streets to Schools
Information for Those Who Care
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Bullies don’t discriminate. They are equal opportunity abusers. In Bullying from streets to schools: Practical information for those who care, authors Smith and Kearney guide their readers through multiple facets of this growing and pervasive problem. Far beyond other books that simply explore the...
Pocket Guide / EU University Guide
Basic Information About European Universties
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
Why You Should Read This Book? Universities in Eurоре hаvе lоng been knоwn for their high асаdеmiс ѕtаndаrdѕ, thеir сutting-еdgе rеѕеаrсh аnd their value for money. Thirtу-оnе оf the wоrld'ѕ tор 100 univеrѕitiеѕ, аѕ listed by Thе Timеѕ in itѕ 2012 Wоrld Univеrѕitу...