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The celebrated book that revolutionized the way Americans choose colleges—now fully revised and updated
An invaluable guide with virtually no competition, this book helped to establish Loren Pope as one of the nation’s most respected experts on the college application process. Now fully revised and updated, Looking Beyond the Ivy League offers a step-by-step guide to selecting the right institution, a checklist of specific questions to ask when visiting a college, the secrets to creating good applications and good applicants, and much more. With as few as one-third of college students remaining at the institution they entered as freshmen, finding the right college is harder than ever before. This book makes it easier for students and their parents.
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In 1951, a twenty-five-year old Yale graduate published his first book, which exposed the extraordinarily irresponsible educational attitude that prevailed at his alma mater. This book rocked the academic world and catapulted its young author, William F. Buckley Jr., into the public spotlight.
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Richard Montauk, a savvy admissions insider who is also a lawyer, demystifies the entire law school application process and provides the targeted tools to ace every step. Based on interviews with dozens of admissions officers, this newly revised edition of How to Get into the Top Law Schools offers an in-depth and candid view of what leading law schools look for in an applicant-giving applicants solid, detailed advice on how to assess and upgrade their credentials to better match that ideal profile.
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Find the college that’s right for you!
An AZ of admissions secrets, The Fiske Guide to Getting into the Right College takes you behind the scenes of the college application process. The expert advice and tips in this book will help you get accepted at the schools of your choice. This clear, accessible guide takes students and their parents step-by-step through the admissions process.
Learn:
--How to choose the right college
--How to get off a waiting list and get accepted
--How to write winning essays
--How to use the Internet in the application process
--How admissions officers really rank applicants
--How to interview successfully
--How to construct a successful application
--How to get the most financial aid
--And much more!
This is the best resource for helping students get into the schools of their choice.
Edward B. Fiske served for 17 years as Education Editor of The New York Times, during which time he realized that college-bound students and their families needed better information on which to base their educational choices. He wrote the bestselling annual, The Fiske Guide to Colleges, to help them.
Bruce G. Hammond was editor in chief of The Insider’s Guide to the Colleges and was managing editor of four editions of The Fiske Guide to Colleges. He is the author of Discounts and Deals at the Nation’s 360 Best Colleges and is the school and college expert at Parent Soup, a division of iVillage.com.
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Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools You Should Know About Even If You're Not a Straight-A Student
In this revised and expanded guide, College Placement Bureau Director Loren Pope profiles forty colleges that excel at developing potential, values, initiative, and risk--taking in a wide range of students. This new edition includes a revised group of colleges and for the first time addresses the issues of home schooling, learning disabilities, and single--sex education. Pope encourages students to be hard--nosed consumers when visiting colleges, and shows how the college experience can enrich every young person's life, whether they are "A," "B," or "C" students.
Included in the profiles are:
• Evaluations of each school's program and "personality"
Interviews with undergraduates, professors, and deans
Information on what happens to the graduates and what they think of their college experience.
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One Day, All Children...: The Unlikely Triumph Of Teach For America And What I Learned Along The Way
From her dorm room at Princeton University, twenty-one-year-old college senior Wendy Kopp decided to launch a movement to improve public education in America. In One Day, All Children... , she shares the remarkable story of Teach For America, a non-profit organization that sends outstanding college graduates to teach for two years in the most under-resourced urban and rural public schools in America. The astonishing success of the program has proven it possible for children in low-income areas to attain the same level of academic achievement as children in more privileged areas and more privileged schools.
One Day, All Children… is not just a personal memoir. It's a blueprint for the new civil rights movement--a movement that demands educational access and opportunity for all American children.
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For 30 years, BEAR’S GUIDE TO EARNING DEGREES BY DISTANCE LEARNING is the most comprehensive, respected, and opinionated guide to the potential minefield of non-traditional education. It ’s often faster, cheaper, and even better to earn an associate’s, bachelor’s, master’s, doctorate, medical, or law degree off campus. As more schools bring the classroom to the student through mail, video, and the internet, the need for an accurate, up-to-date, and technically savvy resource is more crucial than ever. This is the guide for anyone looking to advance a stalled career, return to the workforce, or take the next step to advance his or her education.
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AN INVALUABLE RESOURCE. A designer couldn't begin a project without the input of the client or the tools to make informed decisions. Choosing a design program should be no different. DesignIntelligence provides the tools, evaluations, and insight, to make informed decisions about design programs in the Ninth Annual survey of America's Best Architecture & Design Schools - 2008. For nine years DesignIntelligence has surveyed organizations across the nation to determine which schools produce graduates meeting and exceeding the demands of professional practice. Hiring managers from the nation's top corporations, organizations, municipalities, and design firms evaluate recent new hire graduates for practice readiness in a range of disciplines and skills. * Which programs best prepare students for the rigors of professional practice? * How are design programs meeting emerging needs in the fields? * Who are the most admired design educators? * How do I know which programs are good value for the investment? * How do programs in my area measure up? * Where can my firm recruit top graduates? These questions and more are answered in the pages of the 2008 edition of America's Best Architecture & Design Schools. The only survey of its kind to evaluate programs based on the satisfaction of the profession, the historical survey of programs provides readers a glimpse of the standings for programs over recent years, and the new "Deans Survey" details the programs which design department heads feel are academic models. From Architecture and Landscape Architecture, to Interior Design and Industrial Design, America's Best Architecture and Design Schools 2008 provides students, parents, counselors and industry professionals with targeted and timely information, the tools for an evaluation of the nation's top performing schools and a benchmark for evaluating other programs. School counselors can utilize this guide's facts, figures, and resources to advise students interested in design careers; parents can develop the necessary, in-depth understanding of the complexities of a design education and the profession; and hiring managers can target their recruitment efforts towards top performing programs. Filled with insight and discussions on choosing a school, the 2008 edition of America's Best Architecture & Design Schools builds on a tradition of careful and detailed analysis of trends and best practices in design education based on the overall satisfaction of leading firms and organizations. The 2008 print edition of America's Best Architecture & Design Schools is 96 perfect-bound color pages of charts, graphs, data, and analysis of design programs across the nation that no student, prospective student, school counselor, or hiring manager should be without. Design the best future possible, with the right tools for the job: DesignIntelligence America's Best Architecture & Design Schools - 2008.
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“Straight forward, insightful, essential, and an easy-read. Every Warrior needs to get this book in their hands before going off to BCT. This is the real deal.” —First Sergeant David Bobenmoyer, Company B 1SG, Recruit Sustainment Battalion, Camp Grayling, Michigan “Specialist Herbert makes it ‘Too-Easy’ to get ready for life down-range at BCT. If every one of my soldiers read this book and followed the advice, they would have a distinct advantage over those who didn’t. In short: Read it and heed it.” —Drill Sergeant J.A.L. Fort Jackson, South Carolina A must-read for anyone considering the change from civilian to soldier, 63 Days and a Wake-Up takes you inside the closely guarded world of U.S. Army Basic Combat Training, providing an informative and enlightening look at the fascinating process that transforms everyday citizens into modern day American heroes.
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How to get the most out of your campus visits, and get the stress out of your college interviews.
Updated to give the pros and cons of college Web sites and "virtual visits," and reformatted with easy-to-use charts and checklists, this quick and handy guide will help you get the right impression during your visit and make the right impression during your interview. It tells you the best times to visit; what to look for while you're there; what questions to expect during your interview; what questions you should ask; and more.
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With more teenagers applying to college today than ever before, the competition has never been stiffer, and the stress can become unbearable not just for teens, but for the entire family. In Don't Worry, You'll Get In, one of the country's top college admissions counselors Michele Hernandez and leading parenting expert Mimi Doe join forces to bring teens the first college admissions guide of its kind: an easy and accessible book full of 100 specific tips to navigate the admissions process successfully and calmly. For each step, Hernandez explains to teens in simple terms exactly what they need to do, while Mimi Doe empowers them to tackle that step with confidence and in the least stressful way. Covering everything from standardized testing to summer plans to writing a great essay, Don't Worry, You'll Get In is the perfect guide for high schoolers who want to be accepted at the school of their choice without burning out for the sake of getting in.
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Authors Rena Palloff and Keith Pratt have written a comprehensive reference for faculty to use to hone their skills as online instructors and for students to use to become more effective online learners. Filled with numerous examples from actual online courses and insights from teachers and students, Lessons from the Cyberspace Classroom covers the entire online teaching process. This essential guide offers helpful suggestions for dealing with such critical issues as evaluating effective courseware, working with online classroom dynamics, addressing the needs of the online student, making the transition to online teaching, and promoting the development of the learning community.
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Dispelling sensational beliefs that portray public schools as bureaucratic, violent, and ineffective, a study argues that increased population levels have distorted the statistics and reveals an improved competency among average students.
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The definitive resource for students determined to stand out from the crowd of applicants and join the ranks of the chosen few the country's most prestigous schools.Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown, Stanford, Columbia, Georgetown, UCLA, West Point-- each year, elite schools like these attract hundreds of thousands of smart, talented, motivated, and hopeful applicants. Author of the highly successful How to Get into the Top MBA Programs, Richard Montauk and Krista Klein present the first comprehensive, in-depth, and targeted resource showing students just what it takes to make the grade at the nation's forty leading private and public colleges, and the three premier service academies.
Focusing on both the nuts-and-bolts and strategic planning, Montauk takes students, step by step, through the entire application process. Once students determine their target schools-- with the help of detailed descriptions and rankings--candid insider insights illuminate the unique mindset and methods behind admissions. Through extensive examples of recommendations, essays, and interviews, students will learn to shape their credentials for effective self-marketing. And telling case studies of typical applicants--with feedback from actual admissions directors-- pinpoint the most common weaknesses and ways to improve them.
Lively, accessible, and revealing, HOW TO GET INTO THE TOP COLLEGES is the ultimate guide for serious students with their sights on the Ivy League.
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(20071126)During the twentieth century, black Greek-Letter organizations (BGLOs) united college students dedicated to excellence, fostered kinship, and uplifted African Americans. Members of these organizations include remarkable and influential individuals such as Martin Luther King Jr., Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, novelist Toni Morrison, and Wall Street pioneer Reginald F. Lewis. Despite the profound influence of these groups, many now question the continuing relevance of BGLOs, arguing that their golden age has passed. Partly because of their perceived link to hip-hop culture, black fraternities and sororities have been unfairly reduced to a media stereotype—a world of hazing without any real substance.
The general public knows very little about BGLOs, and surprisingly the members themselves often do not have a thorough understanding of their history and culture or of the issues currently facing their organizations. To foster a greater engagement with the history and contributions of BGLOs, Black Greek-Letter Organizations in the Twenty-first Century: Our Fight Has Just Begun brings together an impressive group of authors to explore the contributions and continuing possibilities of BGLOs and their members.
Editor Gregory S. Parks and the contributing authors provide historical context for the development of BGLOs, exploring their service activities as well as their relationships with other prominent African American institutions. The book examines BGLOs’ responses to a number of contemporary issues, including non-black membership, homosexuality within BGLOs, and the perception of BGLOs as educated gangs. As illustrated by the organized response of BGLO members to the racial injustice they observed in Jena, Louisiana, these organizations still have a vital mission.
Both internally and externally, BGLOs struggle to forge a relevant identity for the new century. Internally, these groups wrestle with many issues, including hazing, homophobia, petty intergroup competition, and the difficulty of bridging the divide between college and alumni members. Externally, BGLOs face the challenge of rededicating themselves to their communities and leading an aggressive campaign against modern forms of racism, sexism, and other types of fear-driven behavior. By embracing the history of these organizations and exploring their continuing viability and relevance, Black Greek-Letter Organizations in the Twenty-first Century demonstrates that BGLOs can create a positive and enduring future and that their most important work lies ahead.
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"Ford Motor Company would not have survived the competition had it not been for an emphasis on results. We must view education the same way," the U.S. Secretary of Education declared in 2003. But is he right? In this provocative new book, Larry Cuban takes aim at the alluring cliché that schools should be more businesslike, and shows that in its long history in business-minded America, no one has shown that a business model can be successfully applied to education.
In this straight-talking book, one of the most distinguished scholars in education charts the Gilded Age beginnings of the influential view that American schools should be organized to meet the needs of American businesses, and run according to principles of cost-efficiency, bottom-line thinking, and customer satisfaction.
Not only are schools by their nature not businesslike, Cuban argues, but the attempt to run them along business lines leads to dangerous over-standardization--of tests, and of goals for our children. Why should we think that there is such a thing as one best school? Is "college for all" achievable--or even desirable? Even if it were possible, do we really want schools to operate as bootcamps for a workforce? Cuban suggests that the best business-inspired improvement for American education would be more consistent and sustained on-the-job worker training, tailored for the job to be done, and business leaders' encouragement--and adoption--of an ethic of civic engagement and public service.
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Advice and project ideas for leaders of Brownie Girl Scout troops.