Student Learning

Steve Schwartz is a full-time author, teacher, and founder of LSAT Unplugged, an online standardized-test-preparation company helping pre-law students achieve top LSAT scores. Steve increased his LSAT score from 152 to 175 on the LSAT (99th percentile) and has taught the LSAT since 2005.

College costs more today than ever and is worth less. Tuition at public colleges has more than tripled in the past 50 years. Over the same period student debt has grown from virtually nothing to more than $1.7 trillion, second only to home mortgages. Skyrocketing student-loan burdens are leading an entire generation to put off the traditional milestones of adulthood: buying homes, getting married, starting families, and saving for retirement.

Decades of research demonstrate the transformative potential and the lasting legacies of a relationship-rich college experience. Critics suggest that to build connections with peers, faculty, staff, and other mentors is expensive and only an option at elite institutions where instructors have the luxury of time with students. But in this revelatory book brimming with the voices of students, faculty, and staff from across the country, Peter Felten and Leo M. Lambert argue that relationship-rich environments can and should exist for all students at all types of institutions.

In 1983, the National Commission on Excellence in Education warned, “The educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a nation and a people.” Forty years later, are things better or worse? This book shares forty examples of how poorly today’s government schools are doing to show that the “rising tide of mediocrity” has created a tsunami of low expectations and poor performance, suggesting the need for alternative solutions.

Learning & Study Guide for Adult Students A Must-Have Guide for GED, ESL, ABE, ASE, CTE, ITE, or HiSET StudentsThis teaching and learning guide presents 12 essential lessons designed to boost your study and learning skills. It offers the following lessons. Introduction Why You Must Study Well To Succeed Why You Must Know How To Learn WellLesson 1- Assessing Your Study and Learning Skills Lesson 2- What Is Studying? Lesson 3- What Is Learning? Lesson 4- A Warning About Your Brain Lesson 5- How To Control Your Brain Lesson 6- A Warning About Technology Lesson 7- How To Study Part 1- ...

Black students were forced to live and learn on the Black side of the color line for centuries, through the time of slavery, Emancipation, and the Jim Crow era. And for just as long—even through to today—Black students have been seen as a problem and a seemingly troubled population in America’s public imagination. Through over one hundred firsthand accounts from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Professor Jarvis Givens offers a powerful counter-narrative in School Clothes to challenge such dated and prejudiced storylines.

Recently graduated from Harvard University, Michelle Kuo arrived in the rural town of Helena, Arkansas, as a Teach for America volunteer, bursting with optimism and drive. But she soon encountered the jarring realities of life in one of the poorest counties in America, still disabled by the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow. In this stirring memoir, Kuo, the child of Taiwanese immigrants, shares the story of her complicated but rewarding mentorship of one student, Patrick Browning.

The Parkland school shooting was the most avoidable mass murder in American history. And the policies that made it inevitable have spread to your school....

This completely revised second edition pulls from years of research, practice, and results to reanalyze and reevaluate the nine instructional strategies that have the most positive effects on teaching and learning. A new framework organizes the nine instructional strategies that have the most positive effects on teaching and learning in preparation for instructional planning, and it highlights the point that all of the strategies are effective and should be used to complement one another.

"AI for Educators" bridges the gap between technology and traditional teaching, offering a comprehensive guide to integrating AI into the classroom. This essential resource is packed with over 125 practical prompts and activities designed to reduce stress, manage workloads more efficiently, and significantly enhance the learning experience. Discover how to: Ease Stress and Emotional Drain: Implement AI strategies to streamline administrative tasks, cutting down on burnout and promoting a more balanced teaching environment. Optimize Workload Management: Utilize AI tools to automate grading ...

The Phonics Playbook is the one phonics-focused resource that offers a solution for phonics instruction in real-world K-3 classrooms. Understanding phonics instruction in theory is one thing, but actually integrating it into daily classroom life—in a way that meets the needs of diverse students—is another. You will learn to assess student needs, choose the model that's right for you, and make data-based adjustments as time goes on.

Are you looking to dominate the LSAT and land a spot at your dream law school? Let's LSAT! is a valuable collection of 180 tips from 180 top-scoring LSAT students from across the nation! These unique tips, tricks, and techniques, many of which have never been published before, can help you get an insider look at how the test works and give you an incredible advantage.

If you're looking for a fun, engaging way to challenge your knowledge of outer space, then you need this fact-packed trivia book! Enjoy by yourself or test your memory against friends and family in a galactic trivia night. If a question stumps you, we follow up the answers with over 501 mind-bending facts! Inside are 177 trivia questions to challenge everybody, from students, the avidly curious novice and above. The unfolding universe is quickly expanding minds.

When it comes to mastering vast amounts of information quickly, flashcards have proven to be an incredibly effective learning tool. Studies have shown that their ability to reinforce memory through repetition and active recall makes them indispensable for students facing challenging exams. Whether you're preparing for a crucial exam or seeking to solidify your drug knowledge, this guide offers an accessible and efficient way to review the top 200 drugs, tailored to your specific educational needs.

From the author of the best-selling If You Don't Feed the Teachers, They Eat the Students, comes an innovative resource for all who work with pre-K through 12th grade students. Neila Connors presents a wealth of strategies and techniques to help teachers develop, maintain, and sustain positive student relationships. If You Don't Feed the Students offers practical, commonsense methods for improving classroom performance, served up in an engaging and entertaining manner.

We’re asking the wrong question. “What do you want to be when you grow up?” is no longer serving our students. This question perpetuates the myth that all students need to pick one job title—for life. The world has changed. The information age has created thousands of career possibilities. Artificial intelligence is causing major disruptions in almost every industry, and will bring about seismic shifts in the way we work. To prepare students for this new reality, we need a different approach.

Cognitive science has revealed the hidden secrets of what really works for studying. Written by psychologists who are experts in the science of study habits, Study Like a Champ outlines clear steps students can use throughout their high school and college careers to plan, monitor, and evaluate their learning.

The Student Leadership Challenge tailors one of the world’s most respected leadership models to students’ unique needs, and provides a proven pathway to success. Based on The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership, this book merges solid research with personal stories from real-world student leaders to help students develop the critical skills they need to lead both now and after graduation. Useful from high school to graduate school and beyond, these lessons are reinforced by reflective and critical thinking activities to help students internalize important concepts.

As the revenues generated by big-time college sports continue to skyrocket, virtually all of the debate involves whether (and how much) student-athletes should be paid for play. Kenneth L. Shropshire and Collin D. Williams Jr., argue that "student" has to come first: the focus should be on prioritizing a meaningful education. They draw on new research to reveal that it has become increasingly difficult for college athletes to balance school and sports, much less a social life, leading to serious economic, professional, and emotional consequences for young people.

Discover how you can revolutionize your online teaching with the power of Google Classroom! Are you struggling with organizing your lessons and managing your class? Have you thought about using online tools like G Suite before, but you’re not sure where to begin? Does the idea of all this technology seem daunting and impossible to learn? Then this book is for you! Google Suite offers countless opportunities for educators to master their lesson plans, supercharge their productivity, and stay on top of their classes. So many teachers are stuck struggling to manage their students in this new...