Jay Mathews: 4 books
Question Everything
The Rise of AVID as America's Largest College Readiness Program
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
How AVID levels the playing field, helping underserved students come out ahead
In Question Everything, award-winning education writer Jay Mathews presents the stories and winning strategies behind the Advancement Via Individual Determination program (AVID). With the goal of preparing students...
by Jay Mathews
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Product is about a drug dealer. Not just any drug dealer but a really good one. And he’s not a bad guy. He just does some terrible things. He loves his mum. He’s good to his girlfriend, a loyal friend to his mates he just happens to sell a shit load of drugs.Set somewhere in Australia Product...
Work Hard. Be Nice.
How Two Inspired Teachers Created the Most Promising Schools in America
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2009
When Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin signed up for Teach for America right after college and found themselves utter failures in the classroom, they vowed to remake themselves into superior educators. They did that—and more. In their early twenties, by sheer force of talent and determination never to...
Harvard Schmarvard
Getting Beyond the Ivy League to the College That Is Best for You
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2009
Smarten Up—It's Time to Choose the Right College
Think that your life's growth, success, and happiness depend on which college you attend? The higher-profile school, the better, right? Wrong! Neither is true.
Written by, yes, a Harvard grad, Harvard Schmarvard rebuts the perception that image is...