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"I Love Learning; I Hate School"
An Anthropology of College
by Susan D. Blum
<p>Frustrated by her students’ performance, her relationships with them, and her own daughter’s problems in school, Susan D. Blum, a professor of anthropology, set out to understand why her students found their educational experience at a ...
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Understanding the Role of Evidence in Improving Education
by Paul E. Lingenfelter
How can we “fix” our schools? Improve graduation rates in college? What works?<br /><br />These are questions that make the headlines and vex policy makers, practitioners, and educational researchers. While they strive to improve society, there ...
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#FeesMustFall and Youth Mobilisation in South Africa
Reform or Revolution?
by Musawenkosi W Ndlovu
<p>This book examines the historical FeesMustFall (FMF) university student protests that took place in South Africa and shows how the enduring historical construction, representation and conceptualisation of South African youth (as typically ...
ISBN: 9781351728126
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Why Bright College Years Never Fade Away
by J. Kirk Casselman
<p>In 1964, when author J. Kirk Casselman applied to Yale College, more than five thousand other secondary school students also applied for admission to one of the 1,300 places in the Yale Class of 1968. Of those applicants, 1,569 were offered ...
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¿CÓMO PREPARAR LA PRUEBA DE INGLÉS DEL ICFES?
by LIBARDO ANTONIO GARZÓN RONCANCIO
<p>Este lirbo va dedicado para todos aquellos estudiantes que estan cursando el grado 10 y 11 de bachillerato en Colombia, en donde quieran preparasen bajo su porpia cuenta para la prueba de inglés del examen Saber 11°, este libro es el mas ...
ISBN: 1230002545868
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1,001 Questions & Answers for the CWI Exam
Welding Metallurgy and Visual Inspection Study Guide
by David Ramon Quinonez
<p>AWS (The American Welding Society) is the worldwide leader in certification programs for the welding industry. Since the CWI (Certified Welding Inspectors) program inception in 1976, AWS has certified more than 100,000 welding inspectors ...
ISBN: 9780831194833
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13 Ideas That Are Transforming the Community College World
by Terry U. O'Banion
<p>America’s community colleges are experiencing the most creative and substantive period of transformation in their 118-year history. There has never been so much research, so much support from foundations, and so much commitment from national ...
ISBN: 9781475844917
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2018 Best Resources for Certifications & Degrees
by Antonio Smith
<p>This reference is loaded with necessary resources useful to those wish to learn or develop new administrative, financial or technical skill sets and receiving a certification or degree in the process. Get expert advice on an abundance of ...
ISBN: 1230002305189
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2018 Best Resources for Education, Training & Tutorial
by Antonio Smith
<p>This reference is loaded with necessary resources useful to those wish to learn or develop new administrative, financial or technical skill sets and receiving a certification or degree in the process. Inside you will find educational ...
ISBN: 1230002305417
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5 Key Steps to Writing the College Admission Essay
by Dr. Mitali Chaudhery
<p>You're about to finish high school, looking forward to the new journey where you really can begin defining your life, its direction, and fulfillment. You may experience moments with complete excitement and nervousness; other moments might ...
ISBN: 9781480862807
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57 Ways to Screw Up in Grad School
Perverse Professional Lessons for Graduate Students
by Kevin D. Haggerty & Aaron Doyle
<p>Don’t think about why you’re applying. Select a topic for entirely strategic reasons. Choose the coolest supervisor. Write only to deadlines. Expect people to hold your hand. Become “that” student.</p> <p>When it comes to a masters or PhD ...
ISBN: 9780226281063
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Higher Education and Technology
by Darrel W. Staat
<p>This book is a result of research into ten technologies currently under development that will directly affect community colleges and universities, most within the next 5-20 years and a few within the next 20-30 years. The research conducted ...
ISBN: 9781475850574
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A BELT around the World: A World Building on Education, Lifelong Learning, and Technology
A Festschrift Honoring Nasser Sharify
by Compiled and Edited by John Southard and W. David Penniman
<p><b>Dr. Nasser Sharify</b>, an educator, writer, philosopher, and poet, has made great contributions to the world of international library development and library science. He believes in the importance of libraries as a bridge to education and
ISBN: 9781469789583
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A Bibliography of Higher Education in Canada / Bibliographie de L'Enseignement Supérieur au Canada
by Robin Harris & Arthur Tremblay
<p>This bibliography is the first of a series of studies about higher education in Canada sponsored by the committee on the History of Higher Education in Canada established by the National Conference of Canadian Universities. Among its nearly ...
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by Robin Harris
<p>The 1971 Supplement adds some 3,500 entries to the approximately 7,000 listed in the original volume and the 1965 Supplement. Like its predecessors this volume provides a full list of the secondary sources related to Canadian higher education
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by Robin Harris, Hugh Smith, Marcel de Grandpre & others
<p>The 1981 <em>Supplement</em> adds more than 3000 entries to the approximately 10,500 listed in the original volume and in the 1965 and 1971 <em>Supplements</em>. Like its predecessors, this volume provides a full list of the secondary sources
ISBN: 9781487589790
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Nurturing College Students Toward Wholeness
by Timothy W. Herrmann & Kirsten D. Riedel
<p>Despite the widely differing perspectives held by those who work in higher education, there is one goal upon which all educators and educational leaders agree: students should leave college stronger than they came. Now more than ever, today's
ISBN: 9781684269785
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Land-Grant Colleges and Universities, 1890-1990
by Ralph D. Christy
<p>In 1890 congressional legislation opened a new chapter in the history of higher education by allocating public support for black Land-Grant colleges and universities.These institutions were established to provide training to blacks in the ...
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A Concise Guide to Improving Student Learning
Six Evidence-Based Principles and How to Apply Them
by Diane Cummings Persellin & Mary Blythe Daniels
This concise guidebook is intended for faculty who are interested in engaging their students and developing deep and lasting learning, but do not have the time to immerse themselves in the scholarship of teaching and learning.<br /><br ...
ISBN: 9781620360941
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A Concise Guide to Teaching With Desirable Difficulties
by Diane Cummings Persellin & Mary Blythe Daniels
<p>This concise guidebook on desirable difficulties is designed to be a resource for academics who are interested in engaging students according to the findings of peer-reviewed literature and best practices but do not have the time to immerse ...
ISBN: 9781620365038
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