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The Five-Year Party: How Colleges Have Given Up on Educating Your Child and What You Can Do About It - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: ForeWord Book of the Year Award winner "The Five-Year Party provides the most vivid portrait of college life since Tom Wolfe's 2004 novel, I Am Charlotte Simmons. The difference is that it isn't fiction. The alcohol-soaked, sex-saturated, drug-infested campuses that Mr. Brandon writes about are real. His book is a roadmap for parents on how to steer clear of the worst of them . The Five-Year Party is a useful handbook for parents to pack when they take their teenager on a college tour, and its list of suggested questions is smart. My favorite: How many of the school's professors send their own children there?” The Wall Street Journal High costs and debt, insufficient instruction, dangerous campuses, and poor job prospects: for too many students, a five-year college party often turns into a lifelong nightmare. The Five-Year Party is packed with illuminating stories and details about this crisis situation, and helps readers to avoid the dangers and get the most for their money.” Marc Scheer, author, No Sucker Left Behind: Avoiding the Great College Rip-Off "In one dismaying and maddening episode and circumstance after another, Craig Brandon's survey of college campuses sounds a vital warning for parents: 'The institutions and administrators you trust to foster and guide your children's formation are more interested in their pocketbooks than their intellects. Buyer beware!'" Mark Bauerlein, author of The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future After reading only a few pages of The Five-Year Party, I immediately started telling people about its important message. This crucial book exposes the consumer mentality now all too prevalent on college campuses, detailing how higher education has given students what they want at the expense of giving them what they need to compete in the global marketplace. Even better, the book tells parents and educators how this nefarious trend can be circumvented. Any parent who wants their college-bound teen to actually learn something for their heaps of tuition money should read this book.” Jean M. Twenge, author of Generation Me and co-author of The Narcissism Epidemic "With broad, unforgiving strokes, Craig Brandon paints a dark picture of residential college life that will give every parent pause before sending a child off to any of his 'Party Schools.'" Barrett Seaman, author of Binge: Campus Life in an Age of Disconnection and Excess Colleges look much the same as they did five or ten years ago, but a lot has changed behind the scenes. While some mixture of study and play has always been part of college life, an increasing number of schools have completely abandoned the idea that students need to learn or demonstrate that they've learned. Financial pressures have made college administrations increasingly reluctant to flunk anyone out, regardless of performance, although the average length of time to get a degree is now five years, and for many students it's six or more. Student evaluations of professorsoften linked to promotion and tenure decisionshave made professors realize that applying tough standards, or any standards, only hurts their own career progress. For many professors, it's become easier and more rewarding to focus on giving entertaining lectures and to give everyone reasonably good grades. The worst of these schools are the "subprime" colleges, where performance standards and accountability have been completely abandoned. Students enjoy a five year party with minimal responsibilities while their parents pay the bills. These schools' investment decisions (first-class gyms and dining centers) are all geared to attracting students that want to have a good time, and their brochures all emphasize the fun aspects of the college experiencethere are very few pictures of students actually studying or in class. And after graduation, former students are frequently unable to find work in their chosen fields, thanks to their school’s reputation with employers, and unable to afford the payments on sizable student loans. The subprime colleges, which "teach" a significant percentage of college students, are only the tip of the iceberg. All colleges, even the most elite, have moved in this direction to some extent. If you are a parent sending your child to college, "The Five-Year Party" will give you critical information you need about what is really happening at your child's college, and what you can do to ensure help your child gets a real education.
So You Want to Use Role Play?: A New Approach in How to Plan - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: This book has two kinds of readers in mind. Those of you whowould like to try using role-play with your group, but don’tknow where or how to start. Those of you who, having triedit, now want to extend its scope and are ready to rethink itsprinciples. Whether you are working in the caring professions,commerce, industry or education we hope these pages will offer younew ideas and a new way of looking at what it means to learnsomething through role work.The book is full of examples of practice, but because we do not havea particular kind of group or learning context in mind, you shouldtake our examples as representing a kind of role-play. We are notsaying ‘You should do this particular exercise’, but rather, ‘This kindof role-play may be suitable for what you are doing’, leaving you tochoose the subject-matter. So our chosen themes or topics arearbitrary. For instance, the first chapter offers a wide range ofexamples on Road Safety with young children. We are not settingout to appeal to teachers who happen to want to cover the subject ofRoad Safety with young children; we are using it to illustrateunderlying principles of role-play that we hope are transferable toany topic you and your group are exploring.Similarly we see our range of exercises relating to the theme of‘disloyalty’ with adolescents, the training of apprentice gas-fitters inhow to approach customers, the testing of managers in team respon-sibility and the medical students’ initiation into visualising the dailyresponsibilities of the doctor they may one day become, as illus-trative of principles applicable to a myriad of contexts.But this book attempts to do more than outline the rules of role-play.Its authors have a mission! We are attempting to break what we seeas the ‘moulds’ of role-play practice. Publications on the subjectviiseem to follow one (or both) of two traditions. There is the‘simulation’ tradition in which a ‘real-life’ work problem isreplicated and the participants engage in solving it. Derived fromthis are a number of exercises set up to isolate for subsequentexamination a particular deficiency in interpersonal communica-tion. The learning outcome is to do with procedures and theeffectiveness of individuals to follow them. The second tradition hasa ‘counselling’ basis. In these the emphasis is on sensitivity ingroups and the honest facing up to one’s behaviour in stressful worksituations. You will find that most recommended role-play practicederives from one or other of these traditions. Much of it is based onsound principles and planning. And yet anecdotal recollections ofpast role-play experiences often dismiss the work as a waste of timeand/or a dreaded embarrassment
Careers for gourmets & others who relish food - Original PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: re there opportunities in the food industry? I say thereare. Just fifty years ago, it was not considered a goodidea for a young person to contemplate a career in cook-ing. Agriculture, yes, but not in the preparation of food or in thefew elements that made up the food industry at that time. As anation, our interest in good food has increased dramatically, andit will continue to increase. We are no longer a nation of meat,potatoes, and apple pie eaters. We want good vegetables andfruit, good cheese, and good prepared products.How has all of this evolved? First of all, it was the passionshared by a few food enthusiasts such as Julia Child, James Beard,Craig Claiborne, Elizabeth David, and Alice Waters. All of themwere exposed to the foods of France and Italy and decided thatAmerica needed change in its eating habits. And change it hashad! Many young people today share that passion and are find-ing satisfying and rewarding careers—not just cooking, but in allparts of the food industry: writing, teaching, catering, small spe-cialized agriculture, as well as baking and candy or jam making.Five years ago would you have thought that Italian-type bis-cotti, made by small bakers, would be available in every special-ized food shop in America? Or that small farmer’s markets wouldagain be the way to get fresher fruit and vegetables? There aremany changes taking place in what we eat, where we eat, andwho provides our food. It all depends on people with a passionfor food and the will to share it with others.Chuck WilliamsFounder, Vice-Chairman of the BoardWilliams-Sonoma, Inc.
Can You Keep a Secret? - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: With the same wicked humor, buoyant charm, and optimism that have made her Shopaholic novels beloved international bestsellers, Sophie Kinsella delivers a hilarious new novel and an unforgettable new character. Meet Emma Corrigan, a young woman with a huge heart, an irrepressible spirit, and a few little secrets:Secrets from her mother:I lost my virginity in the spare bedroom with Danny Nussbaum while Mum and Dad were downstairs watching Ben-Hur.Sammy the goldfish in my parents’ kitchen is not the same goldfish that Mum gave me to look after when she and Dad were in Egypt.Secrets from her boyfriend:I weigh one hundred and twenty-eight pounds. Not one eighteen, like Connor thinks.I’ve always thought Connor looks a bit like Ken. As in Barbie and Ken.From her colleagues:When Artemis really annoys me, I feed her plant orange juice. (Which is pretty much every day.) It was me who jammed the copier that time. In fact, all the times.Secrets she wouldn’t share with anyone in the world:My G-string is hurting me.I have no idea what NATO stands for. Or even what it is.Until she spills them all to a handsome stranger on a plane. At least, she thought he was a stranger.But come Monday morning, Emma’s office is abuzz about the arrival of Jack Harper, the company’s elusive CEO. Suddenly Emma is face-to-face with the stranger from the plane, a man who knows every single humiliating detail about her. Things couldn’t possibly get worse—Until they do.
Wed Him Before You Bed Him (School for Heiresses Series, Book 6) - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: Charlotte Harris, headmistress and owner of Mrs. Harris’s School for Young Ladies,sat at her desk and reread—twice—the pleading letter she had composed to CousinMichael, her anonymous benefactor.Then she tore it up. What was the point of writing him, when every letter she sent tohis solicitor was returned unopened?She wiped her clammy hands on her skirt. He had to know what desperate straits theschool was in—he knew everything. And until six months ago, he had always toldher everything he knew. But after she had pressed him so hard about his identity, hehad ended their correspondence. There had not been a word from him since.The hollow fear that gripped her so often these days made her stomach clench. Allright, so perhaps he had good reason to be angry at her. She had agreed not to presshim about his anonymity.Still, how could he abandon them after all this time? He had been part of the school‟sinception fourteen years ago. Indeed, without him there would be no school. Shewould probably still be languishing as a teacher at the school in Chelsea, dreamingof the day when she could open her own institution governed by her own curriculumand her own rules.Now their idiot neighbor, Mr. Pritchard, was about to sweep it all away. He wasrumored to be on the verge of selling Rockhurst, the estate adjoining the school‟sproperty, to the owner of a racecourse in Yorkshire. She could just see it—roughmen flocking to bet on the races, spilling onto the school‟s lawn and accosting hergirls.How could Cousin Michael stand by and let it happen? He owned this property. Didhe not care if she was forced out?
Flip: How to Turn Everything You Know on Its Head--and Succeed Beyond Your Wildest Imaginings - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: Placing emphasis on flexible, counter-intuitive decision-making, a pioneering young management guru calls for a brand new way of doing business in the current sticky economic conditions, where conventional wisdom fails. Why is Microsoft turning a blind eye to software piracy in China? Why has Toyota capped production of the best-selling Scion? Why did Rupert Murdoch risk $580 million on MySpace? "Business today requires new perspectives," argues Peter Sheahan, one of the youngest and fastest-rising international business consultants. In Flip he shows that to succeed in turbulent financial times, companies must distinguish themselves by finding a new way of doing business, one that systematically re-examines every single aspect of running a company. Flip reveals what the superstars of modern business have in common: an ability to "flip" - to think counter-intuitively and then act boldly, with no regard for business-as-usual conventions. The only rule: there are no rules. Those who heed Sheahan's proven advice will be well placed to join other "flipstars" including entrepreneurs Richard Branson and Rupert Murdoch, and such visionary companies as Google, Toyota and Apple. By learning to "flip" you can future-proof your organisation and your career while those who run with the pack and stick to the business school curriculum will find themselves perilously left behind. Presenting perennial wisdom in a fresh new way, Sheahan shows today's decision makers how to embrace change and successfully operate in a challenging economy that runs on new ideas.
Twelfth Night: Or, What You Will (The Annotated Shakespeare) - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: Twelfth Night is one of Shakespeare’s funniest plays and also one of his most romantic. A young noblewoman, Viola, shipwrecked in a foreign land and separated from her twin brother, dresses as a man in order to enter the service of Orsino, duke of Illyria. Complications ensue—deceptions, infatuations, misdirected overtures, malevolent pranks—as everyone is drawn into the hilarious confusion.
See You When We Get There: Teaching for Change in Urban Schools (Teaching for Social Justice) - Original PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: Gregory Michie?’s first bestseller, Holler If You Hear Me, put him on the map as a compelling and passionate voice in urban education. In his new book, Michie turns his attention to young teachers of color, and once again provides readers with a unique and penetrating look inside public school classrooms. Featuring portraits of five young teachers (two African Americans, two Latinas, and one Asian American) who are "working for change," Michie weaves the teachers?’ powerful voices with classroom vignettes and his own experiences. Along the way, he examines what motivates and sustains these teachers, as well as what they see as the challenges and possibilities of public education
Peer Pressure (Issues That Concern You) - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: Positive and Negative Peer PressurePeer pressure can steer young people right as well as wrong. Studieshave shown that peer pressure from best friends is a major factorin avoiding harmful peer pressure. If best friends do not smoke,drink, take drugs, or engage in sex, or if they actively disapprove8 Peer PressurePeer pressure can lead to harmful activities such as smoking,drinking, and risky behavior.of these actions, then friends in their peer group are more apt toavoid these behaviors.Positive peer influence can promote good values, unify kids,encourage teamwork, promote respect for adults and other kids,persuade kids not to lie or exaggerate to get out of situations, andencourage kids to take responsibility for what they do. In specif-ic instances, if a child gets good grades or loses weight or joins asports team, others in his group are likely to follow. In the best ofworlds, positive peer pressure can be used to influence bullies inthe schoolyard into acting better toward other kids and giving uptheir aggressive tactics.
2-4-6-8 how do you communicate?: how to make your point in just a minute - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: The story is told about a young man who approached Leonard Bernstein with an idea for a new musical. Bernstein, whose impressive achievements included West Side Story, said, ‘Write it on the back of your business card.’ The young man protested, ‘But I couldn’t possibly fit it on the back of a business card!’.آیا کتاب مورد نظر هنوز بر روی سایت قرار نگرفته است؟ جای نگرانی نیست! کافی است بر روی گزینه سفارش کتاب کلیک کرده و درخواست خود را ثبت کنید. در کمتر از چند ساعت کتاب شما را آماده خواهیم کرد.