Educación y ayuda escolar / Orientación

Acing the College Application: How to Maximize Your Chances for Admission to the College of Your Choice

de Michele Hernandez

With so many qualified applicants, competition for college admissions is fiercer than ever. Now you can put yourself ahead of the pack by making your application flawless!

When applying for college, good grades...

Study Away: The Unauthorized Guide to College Abroad

de Jennifer Shields & Mariah Balaban

Now you can go to the college of your dreams and see the world—without compromising on your education (or your parent's budget). This for students by students guide gives you the inside scoop on colleges and...

Disposable Youth: Education or Incarceration?

de Ed.D, James C. Wilson & Kathy Green Ph.D

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Disposable Youth has the power to change America. Seventy percent of the 2.4 million prisoners in America today are high school dropouts. Half of all African American and Hispanic urban high school...

McGraw-Hill's 500 European History Questions: Ace Your College Exams

de Stephanie Muntone

A wealth of essential facts in the Q-and-A format that you want! This book is the ideal way to sharpen your skills and prepare for exams

Get the question-and-answer practice you need with McGraw-Hill's 500 College...

CompetitiveEdge: A Guide to Graduate Business Programs

de Peterson's

Peterson's CompetitiveEdge: A Guide to Graduate Business Programs is a brand new, user-friendly guide to hundreds of graduate business programs in the United States, Canada, and abroad. Readers will find easy-to-read...

The Drama Years: Real Girls Talk About Surviving Middle School -- Bullies, Brands, Body Image, and More

de Haley Kilpatrick & Whitney Joiner

TODAY’S MIDDLE SCHOOL GIRLS HAVE IT ROUGH.

In a few short years, they go through an incredible number of biological and emotional changes, making this the most formative—and riskiest—time in their lives....

Now I Get It!: Differentiate, Engage, and Read for Deeper Meaning

de Judy Brunner & Dwight Carter

Literacy, differentiated instruction, student engagement and academic achievement continue to be hot topics for educators, parents, legislators, and government officials. Now I Get It! Differentiate, Engage,...

Transforming Campus Culture: Frank Aydelotte's Honors Experiment at Swarthmore College

de Ruth Shoemaker Wood

At a time when football and fraternities ruled the American campus, Frank Aydelotte shaped Swarthmore College into an intellectually-charged, academically-focused institution able to command national respect...

Rebels in Society: The Perils of Adolescence

de Marcel Lebrun

Rebels in Society: The Perils of Adolescence is a true journey into the world of adolescents gone bad. This book reveals the inner workings of adolescents who have been caught up in pathology and the juvenile...

Flexible Pedagogy, Flexible Practice

de Elizabeth Burge, Chère Campbell Gibson & Terry Gibson

Flexibility has become a watchword in modern education, but its implementation is by no means a straightforward matter. Flexible Pedagogy, Flexible Practice sheds light on the often taken-for-granted assumptions...

A Designer's Log

de Michael Power

Books and articles on instructional design in online learning abound but rarely do we get such a comprehensive picture of what instructional designers do, how they do it, and the problems they solve as their...

Mobile Learning

de Mohamed Ally

This collection is for anyone interested in the use of mobile technology for various distance learning applications. Readers will discover how to design learning materials for delivery on mobile technology and...

The Theory and Practice of Online Learning

de Terry Anderson

Every chapter in the widely distributed first edition has been updated, and four new chapters on current issues such as connectivism and social software innovations have been added. Essays by practitioners and...

Can I Be in Your Class?: Real Education Reform to Motivate Secondary Students

de Denise Facey

Can I Be In Your Class? offers secondary teachers tips and techniques to invigorate instruction and create an atmosphere conducive to active learning and extraordinary teaching. Each chapter opens with an illustrative...

It's Time for a Change: School Reform for the Next Decade

de Matthew Lynch

The United States entered the 21^st century as the world’s sole superpower. Our diplomatic strength, military might, financial resources, and technological innovation were, and continue to be, the envy of the...

1,014 GRE Practice Questions, 3rd Edition

de Princeton Review

If you need to know it, it’s in this book.

The best way to prepare for standardized tests is to practice, and this resource offers you plenty of opportunities to do just that. 1,014 GRE Practice Questions,...

Cyberbullying Prevention and Response

de Justin W. Patchin & Sameer Hinduja

Just as the previous generation was raised in front of televisions, adolescents at the turn of the 21st century are being raised in an internet-enabled world where blogs, social networking, and instant messaging...

The Great Literacy Debate

de Andrew Goodwyn & Carol Fuller

The nature of literacy is an issue of global debate. When the National Literacy Strategy [NLS] was introduced into UK schools it was arguably the most ambitious educational reform programme in the world, and...

Making the University Matter

de Barbie Zelizer

Making the University Matter investigates how academics situate themselves simultaneously in the university and the world and how doing so affects the viability of the university setting.

The university stands...

Learning Gardens and Sustainability Education

de Dilafruz Williams & Jonathan Brown

Offering a fresh approach to bringing life to schools and schools to life, this book goes beyond touting the benefits of learning gardens to survey them as a whole-systems design solution with potential to address...