College Learning

Once you understand that you can avoid painful mistakes, like tanking your college applications with essays, honors, and extracurriculars that blend in with thousands of other applicants. Using actual essays, honors, activities, and letters of continued interest from accepted applications to the University of Virginia, Duke, Yale, Princeton, and Cambridge University, Standing Out by Stepping Back The Zen of Getting Into Selective Colleges shows you how to make your application stand tall above thousands in one quick listen.

Upward mobility through the path of higher education has been an article of faith for generations of working-class, low-income, and immigrant college students. While we know this path usually entails financial sacrifices and hard work, very little attention has been paid to the deep personal compromises such students have to make as they enter worlds vastly different from their own.

Much more than a collection of cool tools and apps, The Distance Learning Playbook for College and University Instruction mobilizes decades of Visible Learning® research to reveal those evidence-based strategies that work best in an online environment. Supplemented by opportunities to self-assess and reflect, the book addresses every dynamic that must be in place for students to learn, even at a distance.

What would you do if you could go to college without going to high school? Would you travel abroad, spend late nights writing a novel, volunteer in an emergency room, or build your own company? What dreams would you be pursuing right now? College Without High School shows how independent teens can self-design their high school education by becoming unschooled. Students begin by defining their goals and dreams and then pursue them through a combination of meaningful and engaging adventures. It is possible to pursue your dreams....

Studying for the SAT doesn’t have to feel like pulling teeth, and it definitely doesn’t have to bore you to tears. Welcome to Master SAT Vocabulary Words While Laughing Out Loud!, the book that flips the traditional drudgery of vocab drills on its head. Inside, you’ll find 1,000 high-frequency SAT words brought to life through jokes, funny stories, and quirky scenarios designed to make you laugh and learn. Forget the stale flashcards and uninspiring word lists—this book turns vocabulary into an adventure that’s as entertaining as your favorite sitcom.

Are you headed off to college or already in college? Do you want college to be as effortless as possible? Are you averse to writing papers? You need this book! Presented in a tough-love style, this guide book will teach you how to write papers yet keep from overworking or failing out of college. Author Juliana Griffo is straightforward with you and after a decade of freelancing as a tutor and editor, she's seen a huge range of hardworking and hardly working students and wants to give you the best advice to be an excellent student, without it taking over your life.

The former Stanford University sailing coach sentenced in the Varsity Blues college admissions scandal tells the riveting true story of how he was drawn unwittingly into a web of deceit in this eye-opening memoir that offers a damning portrait of modern college administration and the ways in which justice and fairness do not always intersect.

Accelerated Learning is a must-have for anyone who wants to learn new and exciting subjects quickly and effectively. This book provides insights on learning techniques and habits that can be harmful to your study efforts. Additionally, Accelerated Learning reveals some of the most effective learning tools and techniques available to help you to get the most from your time and effort. By using the tools and techniques in this book, you will be able to learn any subject in as little as one month, regardless of how complex the subject is.

"I LOVED THE IMAGINATION OF THIS AUTHOR!" ~ Satisfied Kindle Reader "FIVE STARS!" ~ Multiple Fans "ALICE CROWLEY IS ONE OF OUR GREATEST LIVING WRITERS!" ~ G. Taylor Elaine is a graduate student at university, who notices one day that her biology teacher Professor Carter has eyes for her and is subtly flirting. What happens next is nothing short of a macabre trip into the highly sexual, erotic underworld of esoteric America as Elaine gets introduced to a world of monsters, magic, and witchcraft. Now, only Professor Carter and his group of trusted confidants can protect Elaine, because she ...

This book outlines the benefits of completing your pre-professional course requirements at a community college with sound advice regarding coursework, the professional entrance exam, and interview for pre-nursing, pre-pharmacy, and pre-med students.

Welcome to this audiobook designed to help you improve your academic English vocabulary with helpful idioms, phrases, and expressions. Real World English for Academic Situations Inside & Outside the Classroom is designed for English learners at a low or high-intermediate level (IELTS levels 5-7). My goal is to help you expand your academic English vocabulary and to be able to speak and write more fluently. Improve your confidence when studying at an English-speaking college or talking to colleagues from other countries.

If you are a young person, and you work hard enough, you can get a college degree and set yourself on the path to a good life, right? Not necessarily, says Sara Goldrick-Rab, and with Paying the Price, she shows in damning detail exactly why. Drawing on an unprecedented study of 3,000 young adults who entered public colleges and universities in Wisconsin in 2008 with the support of federal aid and Pell Grants, Goldrick-Rab reveals the devastating effect of these shortfalls.

La educación universitaria debe adaptarse necesariamente a la Cuarta Revolución Industrial. Todos los países e instituciones académicas se enfrentan al reto de volver a capacitar a varias generaciones de trabajadores y profesionales que se están quedando obsoletos ante el nuevo paradigma económico. El sistema educativo ha fallado. No ha evolucionado para responder al advenimiento de la revolución digital; hemos preparado a millones de personas para afrontar los desafíos de ayer pero no a las demandas de mañana.

On April 4, 1968, the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., shocked the nation. Later that month, the Reverend John Brooks, a professor of theology at the College of the Holy Cross who shared Dr. King’s dream of an integrated society, drove up and down the East Coast searching for African American high school students to recruit to the school, young men he felt had the potential to succeed if given an opportunity. Among the twenty students he had a hand in recruiting that year were Clarence Thomas and Theodore Wells....

In this thought-provoking book, acclaimed cultural critic and professor of literature Richard Ohmann and noted critical scholar and pedagogue Ira Shor challenge the widely accepted notion of the "college premium": the economic advantage associated with obtaining a college degree. The authors show how the idea of a college premium is often merely a myth that furthers the commercialization of education.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association has come under fire. Fans have begun to realize that the athletes involved in the two biggest college sports, men's basketball and football, are little more than indentured servants. Millions of teenagers accept scholarships to chase their dreams of fame and fortune - at the price of absolute submission to the whims of an organization that puts their interests dead last.

A young Louisiana boy goes fishing in the Louisiana marsh and gets struck by lightning. It changes his life forever.

Class ends. Students pack up and head back to their dorms. The professor, meanwhile, goes to her car...to catch a little sleep, and then eat a cheeseburger in her lap before driving across the city to a different university to teach another, wholly different class. All for a paycheck that, once prep and grading are factored in, barely reaches minimum wage.

"I LOVED THE IMAGINATION OF THIS AUTHOR!" ~Satisfied Kindle Reader "FIVE STARS!" ~Multiple Fans "ALICE CROWLEY IS ONE OF OUR BEST LIVING AUTHORS!" ~G. Taylor In this super-hot, sizzling 5K-word short story, the reader is taken deep into the essence of human desire and instinct. Lindsey McMahon is the first female American president -- and she is both single and very ready to mingle. Being in the global spotlight, dating is complicated for a president, and can even be a security threat. When Lindsey learns about a meaty, stud mutant government experiment alpha male who is part-beast, she ...

In Rethinking College, award-winning journalist Karin Klein sets out a new path for our country's students and their families. Klein examines why the traditional college-for-all model has been overhyped and is growing less relevant, then shares practical advice and real-world examples of exactly how others have succeeded without a four-year degree.