Category: Test Prep Books and Higher Education

ACT All-Nighter: The Ultimate Crash Course! (Spark Notes)

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Sparknotes

Seller ID: 748794

ISBN-13: 9781411405226

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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Disney Learning Magical Adventures in Preschool Workbook, Preschool Math, Reading Comprehension, and Writing Practice, Preschool Workbooks With Reward Stickers, PreK Classroom or Homeschool Curriculum

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Disney Learning : March 2020

Seller ID: 766434

ISBN-13: 9781483858654

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

WORKBOOK FEATURES: - Ages 3-5, Pre-K- 256 pages, 7.7 inches x 10.6 inches- Features your child's favorite Disney characters including Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Goofy, and Pluto- 200+ learning activities help develop your child's school readiness skills- Topics covered: letter recognition and sounds, handwriting, counting, colors, patterns, shapes and more- 140 colorful reward stickers - Includes answer key and completion certificateFOCUSED PRACTICE: The Disney Learning Magical Adventures in Preschool Workbook helps kids ages 3-5 develop math and reading readiness and gets them ready for Kinderg...
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Summer Bridge Activities 3-4 Grade Workbooks, Math, Reading Comprehension, Writing, Science, Social Studies, Summer Learning 4th Grade Workbooks All Subjects With Flash Cards (160 pgs)

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Summer Bridge Activities : January 2015

Seller ID: 723849

ISBN-13: 9781483815831

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Workbook Features: - Ages 8-10, Grades 3-4 - 160 pages, about 8 inches x 10 1/2 inches - Reading, writing, math, science, social studies, and more - Includes fun fitness activities - Flash cards, stickers, completion certificate, and answer key included Hands-On Summer Learning: Summer Bridge Activities Workbook helps third--fourth graders keep their skills sharp during the summer months to prevent summer learning loss through fun practice pages and activities, engaging fitness activities, and more. What's Included: This book covers all subjects, focusing on reading comprehension skills, wor...
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Unprofitable Schooling: Examining Causes of, and Fixes for, America's Broken Ivory Tower

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Cato Institute : February 2019

Seller ID: 465607

ISBN-13: 9781948647045

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Most economies advance by simultaneously decreasing costs and increasing quality. Unfortunately, when it comes to higher education, this has been turned on its head. Costs keep rising while quality declines. How has this happened? What can be done?This exceptional volume looks at the issues facing higher education from the perspective of both economics and history. Each chapter explores how the lessons learned from market competition in other sectors of the economy can be applied to higher education in order to bring about innovation, improved quality, and lower costs.The opening section offer...
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Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses

By: Arum, Richard/Roksa, Jospia

Price: $5.00

Publisher: : January 2017

Seller ID: 377036

ISBN-13: 9780226028569

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In spite of soaring tuition costs, more and more students go to college every year. A bachelor's degree is now required for entry into a growing number of professions. And some parents begin planning for the expense of sending their kids to college when they're born. Almost everyone strives to go, but almost no one asks the fundamental question posed by Academically Adrift: are undergraduates really learning anything once they get there? For a large proportion of students, Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa's answer to that question is a definitive no. Their extensive research draws on survey respo...
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Redesigning America?s Community Colleges: A Clearer Path to Student Success

By: Bailey, Thomas R.

Price: $15.00

Seller ID: 376526

ISBN-13: 9780674368286

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In the United States, 1,200 community colleges enroll over ten million students each year--nearly half of the nation's undergraduates. Yet fewer than 40 percent of entrants complete an undergraduate degree within six years. This fact has put pressure on community colleges to improve academic outcomes for their students. Redesigning America's Community Colleges is a concise, evidence-based guide for educational leaders whose institutions typically receive short shrift in academic and policy discussions. It makes a compelling case that two-year colleges can substantially increase their rates of ...
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What the Best College Teachers Do

By: Bain, Ken

Price: $6.50

Publisher: : December 2013

Seller ID: 731501

ISBN-13: 9780674013254

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

What makes a great teacher great? Who are the professors students remember long after graduation? This book, the conclusion of a fifteen-year study of nearly one hundred college teachers in a wide variety of fields and universities, offers valuable answers for all educators. The short answer is--it's not what teachers do, it's what they understand. Lesson plans and lecture notes matter less than the special way teachers comprehend the subject and value human learning. Whether historians or physicists, in El Paso or St. Paul, the best teachers know their subjects inside and out--but they also k...
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On Writing the College Application Essay

By: Bauld, Harry

Price: $5.00

Publisher: : October 2012

Seller ID: 504700

ISBN-13: 9780064637220

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

What does an admissions officer look for in a college application essay?You. It's that simple. There's no formula, no trick, no strategy, says Harry Bauld, a former Ivy League admissions officer. But with acceptance rates at all-time lows, just being yourself in an essay means understanding your readers and the unique form in which you are writing. In this fully revised and updated edition of the classic guide to writing the best essay of your life, Bauld reveals the big cliches (The Trip, The Jock, Miss America, Pet Death) and helps you discover ways to come alive on the page as a real person...
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On Writing the College Application Essay, 25th Anniversary Edition: The Key to Acceptance at the College of Your Choice

By: Bauld, Harry

Price: $4.00

Seller ID: 622041

ISBN-13: 9780062123992

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

One of the most stressful aspects of the college application process is the essay. Most students worry about what an admissions officer looks for in a writing sample. But that's the wrong way to approach this vital component, says former college admissions officer Harry Bauld. At Brown and Columbia, he saw what prospective students often did wrong--and now tells you how to do it right.On Writing the College Application Essay is his inside guide to writing a college application essay that will stand out from the pack. Baum advises you on how to avoid platitudes and find your authentic voice, gi...
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'I Love Learning; I Hate School': An Anthropology of College

By: Blum, Susan D

Price: $11.00

Seller ID: 405561

ISBN-13: 9781501700217

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

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 top-tier institution so profoundly difficult and unsatisfying. Through her research and in conversations with her students, she discovered a troubling mismatch between the goals of the university and the needs of students. In I Love Learning; I Hate School, Blum tells two intertwined but inseparable stories: the results of her research into how students learn c...
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Freshman Survival Guide

By: Bradbury, Nora

Price: $5.00

Publisher: : April 2012

Seller ID: 532411

ISBN-13: 9780446560115

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A values-based guide to navigating that critical first year of college that speaks to college students in their own language and offers practical tools that readers need to keep from drinking, sleeping or skipping their way out of college. There are numerous guides for choosing a college, paying for college and getting good grades in college But THE FRESHMAN SURVIVAL GUIDE is the first to offer advice on academics, relationships and lifestyle and combine it with guidance on how to cope with the spiritual, emotional and ethical questions and issues that confront young adults. Divided into five ...
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You Majored in What?

By: Brooks, Katharine

Price: $7.00

Publisher: : October 2014

Seller ID: 376154

ISBN-13: 9780452296008

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Fully revised and updated in 2017, the revolutionary career guide for a new generation of job-seekers, from one of the U.S.'s top career counselors "So what are you going to do with your major?" It's an innocent question that can haunt students from high school to graduate school and beyond. Relax. Your major is just the starting point for designing a meaningful future. In this indispensable guide, Dr. Katharine Brooks shows you a creative, fun, and intelligent way to figure out what you want to do and how to get it--no matter what you studied in college. You will learn to map your experien...
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Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania

By: Brun, Frank

Price: $5.00

Publisher: : August 2016

Seller ID: 731573

ISBN-13: 9781455532704

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Read award-winning journalist Frank Bruni's New York Times bestseller: an inspiring manifesto about everything wrong with today's frenzied college admissions process and how to make the most of your college years. Over the last few decades, Americans have turned college admissions into a terrifying and occasionally devastating process, preceded by test prep, tutors, all sorts of stratagems, all kinds of rankings, and a conviction among too many young people that their futures will be determined and their worth established by which schools say yes and which say no. In Where You Go is Not Who ...
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Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania

By: Bruni, Frank

Price: $6.00

Seller ID: 387455

ISBN-13: 9781455532681

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Read award-winning journalist Frank Bruni's New York Times bestseller: an inspiring manifesto about everything wrong with today's frenzied college admissions process and how to make the most of your college years. Over the last few decades, Americans have turned college admissions into a terrifying and occasionally devastating process, preceded by test prep, tutors, all sorts of stratagems, all kinds of rankings, and a conviction among too many young people that their futures will be determined and their worth established by which schools say yes and which say no. In Where You Go is Not Who ...
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Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania

By: Bruni, Frank

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 740910

ISBN-13: 9781455532681

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Read award-winning journalist Frank Bruni's New York Times bestseller: an inspiring manifesto about everything wrong with today's frenzied college admissions process and how to make the most of your college years. Over the last few decades, Americans have turned college admissions into a terrifying and occasionally devastating process, preceded by test prep, tutors, all sorts of stratagems, all kinds of rankings, and a conviction among too many young people that their futures will be determined and their worth established by which schools say yes and which say no. In Where You Go is Not Who ...
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End of College: Creating the Future of Learning and the University of Everywhere

By: Carey, Kevin

Price: $6.00

Seller ID: 374988

ISBN-13: 9781594634048

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

From a renowned education writer comes a fascinating examination of the rapidly shifting world of college that every parent, student and educator needs to understand.In 2011-2012, some of the world's most famous universities and technology entrepreneurs began a revolution in higher education. College courses that had been kept from all but an elite few were released to students around the world -- for free. And thanks to exploding tuition prices, a volatile global economy and some high-tech innovations, we're now poised for a total rethinking of what college is and should be. In the NEW YORK T...
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For the Love of ACT Math: This is not a math book; this is an ACT math book

By: Cerro, Michael,Chait, Dan,Hill, Owen,McMahon, Max,Reddick, Chris

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Private Prep : June 2017

Seller ID: 759801

ISBN-13: 9780996832267

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Updated 10/2/2017 Answer Explanations: You can find handwritten explanations at: https: //www.privateprep.com/learning-resources/love-of-act-math-answers/ We are really proud of the second book in the Private Prep test prep series, For the Love of ACT Math. We designed this book to help all of you improve your ACT math score. The math section is tough, we know, so we hope you find a ton of great tips and tricks inside Our goal was to capture the vibrant energy and clarity of our own tutoring sessions, and distill it into book form. To do so, we explored a teaching style that looks like th...
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How College Works

By: Chambliss, Daniel

Price: $4.00

Publisher: : December 2016

Seller ID: 546012

ISBN-13: 9780674049024

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Constrained by shrinking budgets, can colleges do more to improve the quality of education? And can students get more out of college without paying higher tuition? Daniel Chambliss and Christopher Takacs conclude that the limited resources of colleges and students need not diminish the undergraduate experience. How College Works reveals the surprisingly decisive role that personal relationships play in determining a student's collegiate success, and puts forward a set of small, inexpensive interventions that yield substantial improvements in educational outcomes. At a liberal arts college in N...
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The Purposeful Graduate: Why Colleges Must Talk to Students about Vocation

By: Clydesdale, Tim

Price: $6.50

Publisher: University of Chicago Press : May 2015

Seller ID: 634836

ISBN-13: 9780226236346

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

We all know that higher education has changed dramatically over the past two decades. Historically a time of exploration and self-discovery, the college years have been narrowed toward an increasingly singular goal--career training--and college students these days forgo the big questions about who they are and how they can change the world and instead focus single-mindedly on their economic survival. In The Purposeful Graduate, Tim Clydesdale elucidates just what a tremendous loss this is, for our youth, our universities, and our future as a society. At the same time, he shows that it doesn't ...
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Naked Roommate: And 107 Other Issues You Might Run Into in College

By: Cohen, Harlan

Price: $5.00

Publisher: : July 2010

Seller ID: 101085

ISBN-13: 9781402203374

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In college, there's a surprise around every corner... But that doesn't mean you can't be prepared From sharing a bathroom with 40 strangers to sharing lecture notes, The Naked Roommate is your behind-the-scenes look at EVERYTHING you need to know about college (but never knew you needed to know). This essential guide is packed with expert advice on everything from managing money to managing stress--plus hilarious, outrageous and telling stories from students on over 100 college campuses: College Living-Dorm do's, don'ts and dramas-Lying, noisy, nasty roommates Finding Friends-Where they're hi...
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Category: Test Prep Books and Higher Education