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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
Finding You Finding Me: Using Intensive Interaction To Get In Touch With People Whose Severe Learning Disabilities Are Combined With Autistic Spectrum Disorder - Original PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: What is this book about?Finding You Finding Me is about some of the many people with whom I havebeen involved over the last 35 years, whose severe learning difficulties arelinked with autism. While the majority are adult, some are children.Without exception, all those mentioned are on the autistic spectrum.For those of us who are sometimes known as neurotypical (NT), wholive with and support people on the spectrum, there is almost always afeeling of separation. In some respects this can be enhanced by definitionswhich separate ‘us’ and ‘them’ into categories – when the aim of this bookis to show how we can share common ground. Nevertheless, ‘neurotypical’is a convenient shorthand which is offered by people with autism and so Ishall use it gratefully, while remembering that we have common purposewhich I shall try to unravel as we move on. I shall think of us as partnerswith common purpose and endeavour.How can we get in touch with each other? Where is the key to relation-ship in a partnership which will consist of one person who is known asautistic and the other who may be a parent, support partner, therapist,community worker, advocate, manager or simply someone who would liketo be a friend but is baffled by the communication gulf ? Since the twopartners live in different sensory worlds, none of these roles will help us tomeet unless we can find some way of getting close to each other which iscomfortable for both of us.
Dream When You're Feeling Blue - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: T WAS KITTY’S TURN TO SLEEP with her head at the foot of the bed. She didn’t mind; she preferred it, actually. She liked the mild disorientation that came from that position, and she liked the relative sense of privacy—her sisters’ feet in her face, yes, but not their eyes, not their ears, nor the close, damp sounds of their breathing. And at the foot of the bed she was safe from Louise, who often yanked mercilessly at people’s hair in her sleep. Tonight Kitty was last to bed, having been last in the bathroom. Everybody liked it when Kitty was last in the bathroom because, of the eight people living in the house, she always took the longest. Apart from the normal ablutions, she did things in there: affected poses she thought made her look even more like Rita Hayworth—she did look like Rita Hayworth, everyone said so. She filed her fingernails, she experimented with combining perfumes to make a new scent, she creamed her face, she used eyebrow pencil to make beauty marks above her lip. She also read magazines in the bathroom because there, no one read over her shoulder. Oh, somebody would bang on the door every time she was in there, somebody was always banging on the bathroom door, but a girl could get a lot done in a room with a locked door. Kitty could do more in five minutes in the bathroom than in thirty minutes anywhere else in the house, where everyone in the family felt it their right—their obligation!—to butt into everyone else’s business. When Kitty came out of the bathroom, she tiptoed into the bedroom, where it appeared her sisters were already asleep—Tish on her side with her knees drawn up tight, Louise with the covers flung off. Kitty crouched down by Louise and whispered her sister’s name. Kitty wanted to talk; she wasn’t ready to sleep yet. But Louise didn’t budge.
How Wikipedia Works: And How You Can Be a Part of It - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: This book is divided into four parts, starting with the basics and working through all aspects of Wikipedia.Part I looks at Wikipedia from the reader's point of view. Chapter 1, What's in Wikipedia? describes the type of contentWikipedia contains and the basic policies that determine what content is included. The site's history is explored in Chapter 2,The World Gets a Free Encyclopedia; in particular, we look at the way that Wikipedia unites three historical strands:encyclopedias, wikis, and free software. How to search and browse the site (including an explanation of the sidebar andmain page) is detailed in Chapter 3, Finding Wikipedia's Content, and Chapter 4, Understanding and Evaluating an Articlecovers the structure of an individual article and methods for evaluating article quality.Part II turns to editing the site. A basic explanation of how to edit a page and an introduction to wikisyntax are in Chapter 5,Basic Editing; this chapter forms the foundation for the next chapters in this part. Chapter 6, Good Writing and Researchcovers how to start a new article and explores encyclopedic writing, research, and collaboration techniques that are usefulfor working on any article. Formal processes for maintaining content, including collaborative editing drives and cleanupprojects, WikiProjects, and article deletion and promotion processes are covered in Chapter 7, Cleanup, Projects, andProcesses. Chapter 8, Make and Mend Wikipedia's Web explains how articles are linked together through Wikipedia'scategory structure, disambiguation pages, and redirects, along with how pages are maintained through merging, splitting,and moving. More advanced syntax, including image formatting, tables, templates, and special characters, is covered inChapter 9, Images, Templates, and Special Characters. Chapter 10, The Life Cycle of an Article steps through the life cycleof a newly created article.Part III covers Wikipedia's elaborate social side. We begin with how to sign up as an editor, including setting up an account,setting preferences, and using your personal user and talk pages in Chapter 11, Becoming a Wikipedian, in which we alsodescribe Wikipedia's administrator system. Wikipedia's culture and the ways editors communicate (including a list of forumsfor asking questions and discussing problems) are covered in Chapter 12, Community and Communication, and the policiesthat govern Wikipedia and how these policies are created are described in Chapter 13, Policy and Your Input. Finally,Chapter 14, Disputes, Blocks, and Bans discusses how the dispute resolution process works—and how to avoid disagreementin the first place.Part IV steps back from the English-language Wikipedia to cover other Wikimedia Foundation projects, including editionsof Wikipedia in other languages in Chapter 15, 200 Languages and Counting and Wikipedia's sister projects, includingWikimedia Commons, Wiktionary, Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikispecies, and Wikiversity, inChapter 16, Wikimedia Commons and Other Sister Projects. Finally, we cover the Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia'sparent organization) and how work at the Foundation level is coordinated in Chapter 17, The Foundation and ProjectCoordination
You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?! A Self-Help Book for Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: There is much literature about children with Attention Deficit Disorder. This work focuses on the experience of adults with the disorder, combining practical information and moral support. It explains the diagnostic process and distinguishes ADD symptions from normal lapses in memory, lack of concentrations, and impulse behaviour, and addresses: how to achieve balance by analyzing one's strengths and weaknesses; how to get along in groups, at work, and intimate and family relationships - including how to decrease discord and chaos; mechanical aides and methods for getting organized and improving memory; and professional help, including medication and therapy.
Risk: A Practical Guide for Deciding What's Really Safe and What's Really Dangerous in the World Around You - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: An indispensable and timely guide, Risk is the authority for assessing threats to your health and safety.We continually face new risks in our world. This essential family reference will help you understand worrisome risks so you can decide how to stay safe and how to keeps risks in perspective. Expert authors David Ropeik and George Gray include information on:- 50 top hazards - your likelihood of exposure - the consequences - ways to reduce your riskThey cover topics such as:- cancer - biological weapons - indoor air pollution - pesticides - radiation
School Violence (Issues That Concern You) - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: As incidents of violence in and around schools make newsheadlines with disturbing frequency, school violence con-tinues to be one of the most hotly debated topics in America.Public discussion often focuses on questions that have no easyanswers: What causes school violence? What can be done toprevent violence in schools? What makes schools safe? Someexperts believe the large size of many modern schools is toblame, while others claim that bullying, low self-esteem, socialisolation, and pressure to conform are all contributors to out-breaks of school violence. To maintain an environment that al-lows students to learn in a safe setting, some schools are turningto increased campus security. Others are exploring alternativeprevention strategies that encourage individual responsibility,such as youth leadership programs and mentoring. These ideas,along with many other aspects of the school violence issue, areaddressed in this volume.
Retirement Countdown: Take Action Now to Get the Life You Want (Financial Times Prentice Hall Books) - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: “How important is it to pay attention to this book? How important is it to live without fear? How important is it to be able to help your children and grandchildren? How important is it to be able to enjoy yourself after you retire instead of living in terror? How important is it to live on the golf course instead of in a single room of a retirement hotel? Or, to put it another way, this book is important, and rarely has a book so important been so much fun to read.”—Ben Stein, Economist, Lawyer, Writer, TV Personality and Honorary Chair of the National Retirement Planning Coalition.“Retirement Countdown offers a wonderful perspective on retirement issues. Not only does the book create awareness, it helps solve the problems faced by so many people who don’t know how to plan. By introducing Goal Oriented Retirement Planning, David Shapiro has created a breakthrough process for matching assets with goals and achieving success. This is must-read book!”—Tom West, Retired Chairman and CEO, American General Retirement Services“This book offers a comprehensive approach to retirement planning delivered in an enjoyable and easy-to-read format. I’m going to recommend it to all my clients in the pre-retirement stage. Shapiro makes the journey fun!”—Pat Hanley-Peterson, Ph.D., Vice President, Director of Professional Services, Certified Executive Coach, Lee Hecht Harrison “David Shapiro has for years been a source of information on financial instruments and trends for industry professionals. Now he uses that expertise to make information accessible to the general public. With this accessible book, David Shapiro makes the process of retirement planning less daunting for everyone, regardless of individual levels of expertise.”—Juanita Brown, Senior Vice President, Associated Securities“Don’t just read this book; use it. The author builds a powerful case for accepting personal responsibility for taking action now. Time is money. Invest yours now; you will love the rate of return. With Shapiro as your guide, help replaces hope.”—Tim Freeman, President, Efficient Marketing, LLCProtect your retirement, one step at a time—starting today!Don’t outlive your assets! Know what you’ll need, how to get it, and how to keep itPersonal coaching from one of the world’s leading retirement planning expertsOvercome the #1 danger to your retirement: procrastination. Only Jerry Seinfeld can make money doing nothing!Understand retirement investment risks—and manage themAuthor provides interactive retirement planning tools at www.retirementcountdown.comConcerned about retirement income? You’d better be. Don’t panic. Act! Retirement Countdown will help you every step of the way.In this action-oriented book, you’ll discover where you stand, make a solid plan, and learn how to stick with it. You’ll assess all your options, discovering practical strategies for controlling risk as you build savings. You’ll learn how to tweak your plan to reflect changing times. And, once you’ve retired, you’ll learn the best ways to protect and stretch your savings.Whatever your assets, whatever your investment knowledge, this book will coach you every step of the way on the road to the comfortable retirement you deserve.
Body Image (Issues That Concern You) - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: Most people would like to change something about their bod-ies and the way that they look, but for some people it isan obsession. A freckle, a mole, the size of their nose, the sym-metry of their ears, the size of their breasts, whatever the flaw orflaws, major or minor, real or misperceived, noticeable or not,they are life consuming for people with body dysmorphic disor-der (BDD).Sufferers of BDD may refuse to have their picture taken, stopgoing out with friends, quit going to school, stop going to work,refuse to leave home altogether, and even attempt suicide. Theymay have multiple plastic surgeries or just spend literally hours aday looking at, trying to cover up, measuring, and thinking abouttheir perceived defect. No amount of reassurance will comfortthem.Body integrity identity disorder (BIID) is a unique type ofBDD. Sometimes called “amputee wannabees,” sufferers feelthat they will not be themselves until a certain limb or limbsare amputated. Driven to desperation, some have taken it uponthemselves to remove their own limbs or have damaged them byfreezing them so that they have to be amputated. Once the limbsare gone, they feel whole.While people with BIID are desperate to remove something,others feel compelled, or just want, to add something. Bodymodification can range from the tame to the extreme. Multipletattoos, multiple piercings, and piercings in every part of thebody imaginable are becoming more common and more cultur-ally acceptable. Some people go to greater extremes with thingslike tattoos covering their entire bodies, sewing beads into theirskin, branding (burning a permanent scar), eyeball tattooing,eyeball jewelry, tooth filing, tongue splitting, ear pointing orshaping, and 3-D body modification such as horn implantingآیا 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.