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Author : Peterson's Guides, Inc
Publisher : Peterson Nelnet Company
ISBN 13 : 9781560794806
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (948 download)
Download or read book Competitive Colleges 1995-96 written by Peterson's Guides, Inc and published by Peterson Nelnet Company. This book was released on 1995-04-23 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peterson's Guides, Inc
Publisher : Peterson Nelnet Company
ISBN 13 : 9781560795988
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (959 download)
Download or read book Competitive Colleges, 1996-1997 written by Peterson's Guides, Inc and published by Peterson Nelnet Company. This book was released on 1996-04-21 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most trusted source of information for excellent students covers a broad range of more than 375 leading colleges and universities that regularly admit high achievers and deliver high-quality education. This helpful book offers a wealth of useful information for highly motivated students--who gets into college, who pays for it, and what they do after graduation.
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Publisher : Peterson's
ISBN 13 : 0768926866
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (689 download)
Download or read book 440 Great Colleges for Top Students written by and published by Peterson's. This book was released on with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Peterson's Competitive Colleges 1994-1995 written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christopher Avery
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674020340
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Early Admissions Game written by Christopher Avery and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each year, hundreds of thousands of high school seniors compete in a game they’ll play only once, whose rules they do not fully understand, yet whose consequences are enormous. The game is college admissions, and applying early to an elite school is one way to win. But the early admissions process is enigmatic and flawed. It can easily lead students toward hasty or misinformed decisions. This book—based on the careful examination of more than 500,000 college applications to fourteen elite colleges and hundreds of interviews with students, counselors, and admissions officers—provides an extraordinarily thorough analysis of early admissions. In clear language it details the advantages and pitfalls of applying early as it provides a map for students and parents to navigate the process. Unlike college admissions guides, The Early Admissions Game reveals the realities of early applications, how they work and what effects they have. The authors frankly assess early applications. Applying early is not for everyone, but it will improve—sometimes double, even triple—the chances of being admitted to a prestigious college. An early decision program can greatly enhance a college’s reputation by skewing statistics, such as selectivity, average SAT scores, or percentage of admitted applicants who matriculate. But these gains come at the expense of distorting applicants’ decisions and providing disparate treatment of students who apply early and regular admissions. The system, in short, is unfair, and the authors make recommendations for improvement. The Early Admissions Game is sure to be the definitive work on the subject. It is must reading for admissions officers, guidance counselors, and high school seniors and their parents.
Author : Donald Asher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1580088392
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Cool Colleges written by Donald Asher and published by . This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information on institutions geared to students with special interests and needs, those that use the "great books" and other uncommon techniques, and those that offer majors not widely available, and lists accedited colleges.
Author : William G. Bowen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400840708
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Reclaiming the Game written by William G. Bowen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-27 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Reclaiming the Game, William Bowen and Sarah Levin disentangle the admissions and academic experiences of recruited athletes, walk-on athletes, and other students. In a field overwhelmed by reliance on anecdotes, the factual findings are striking--and sobering. Anyone seriously concerned about higher education will find it hard to wish away the evidence that athletic recruitment is problematic even at those schools that do not offer athletic scholarships. Thanks to an expansion of the College and Beyond database that resulted in the highly influential studies The Shape of the River and The Game of Life, the authors are able to analyze in great detail the backgrounds, academic qualifications, and college outcomes of athletes and their classmates at thirty-three academically selective colleges and universities that do not offer athletic scholarships. They show that recruited athletes at these schools are as much as four times more likely to gain admission than are other applicants with similar academic credentials. The data also demonstrate that the typical recruit is substantially more likely to end up in the bottom third of the college class than is either the typical walk-on or the student who does not play college sports. Even more troubling is the dramatic evidence that recruited athletes "underperform:" they do even less well academically than predicted by their test scores and high school grades. Over the last four decades, the athletic-academic divide on elite campuses has widened substantially. This book examines the forces that have been driving this process and presents concrete proposals for reform. At its core, Reclaiming the Game is an argument for re-establishing athletics as a means of fulfilling--instead of undermining--the educational missions of our colleges and universities.
Author : Nick Buck
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136477780
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (364 download)
Download or read book Working Capital written by Nick Buck and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades the cities of the developed world were seen as problem-beset relics from times of low mobility and slow communications. But now, their potential to sustain creativity, culture and innovation is perceived as crucial to success in a much more competitive global ecomony. The vital requirement to secure and sustain this success is argued to be the achievement of social cohesion. Working Capital provides a rigorous but accessible analysis of these key issues taking London as its test case. The book provides the first substantial analysis of key economic, social and structural issues that the new London administration needs to deal with. In a wider context, its critical assessment of the bases of the new urbanism and of the global city thesis will raise questions both about the adequacy of urban thinking and about the capacity of new institutions alone to resolve the fundamental problems faced by cities.
Author : J. Rury
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403981876
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Urban Education in the United States written by J. Rury and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-04-30 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban Education in the United States examines the development of schools in the large cities of the USA. John Rury, a well-known historian of education, introduces and highlights the most significant and classic essays dealing with urban schooling in this collection. Urban Education in the United States will provide an introduction to critical themes in the history of city schools and will frame each section with an overview of urban education research during particular periods in US history.
Author : Derek Bok
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691165580
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Higher Education in America written by Derek Bok and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-22 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping assessment of the state of higher education today from former Harvard president Derek Bok Higher Education in America is a landmark work--a comprehensive and authoritative analysis of the current condition of our colleges and universities from former Harvard president Derek Bok, one of the nation's most respected education experts. Sweepingly ambitious in scope, this is a deeply informed and balanced assessment of the many strengths as well as the weaknesses of American higher education today. At a time when colleges and universities have never been more important to the lives and opportunities of students or to the progress and prosperity of the nation, Bok provides a thorough examination of the entire system, public and private, from community colleges and small liberal arts colleges to great universities with their research programs and their medical, law, and business schools. Drawing on the most reliable studies and data, he determines which criticisms of higher education are unfounded or exaggerated, which are issues of genuine concern, and what can be done to improve matters. Some of the subjects considered are long-standing, such as debates over the undergraduate curriculum and concerns over rising college costs. Others are more recent, such as the rise of for-profit institutions and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Additional topics include the quality of undergraduate education, the stagnating levels of college graduation, the problems of university governance, the strengths and weaknesses of graduate and professional education, the environment for research, and the benefits and drawbacks of the pervasive competition among American colleges and universities. Offering a rare survey and evaluation of American higher education as a whole, this book provides a solid basis for a fresh public discussion about what the system is doing right, what it needs to do better, and how the next quarter century could be made a period of progress rather than decline.
Author : Megan M Holland
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813590256
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)
Download or read book Divergent Paths to College written by Megan M Holland and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-04 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Megan M. Holland examines how high schools structure different pathways that lead to very different college destinations based on race and class. She finds that racial and class inequalities are reproduced through unequal access to key sources of information, even among students in the same school and even in schools with well-established college-going cultures.
Author : Allen L. Sack
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313001480
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book College Athletes for Hire written by Allen L. Sack and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1998-07-17 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many books have been written on the evils of commercialism in college sport, and the hypocrisy of payments to athletes from alumni and other sources outside the university. Almost no attention, however, has been given to the way that the National Collegiate Athletic Association has embraced professionalism through its athletic scholarship policy. Because of this gap in the historical record, the NCAA is often cast as an embattled defender of amateurism, rather than as the architect of a nationwide money-laundering scheme. Sack and Staurowsky show that the NCAA formally abandoned amateurism in the 1950s and passed rules in subsequent years that literally transformed scholarship athletes into university employees. In addition, by purposefully fashioning an amateur mythology to mask the reality of this employer-employee relationship, the NCAA has done a disservice to student-athletes and to higher education. A major subtheme is that women, such as those who created the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW), opposed this hypocrisy, but lacked the power to sustain an alternative model. After tracing the evolution of college athletes into professional entertainers, and the harmful effects it has caused, the authors propose an alternative approach that places college sport on a firm educational foundation and defend the rights of both male and female college athletes. This is a provocative analysis for anyone interested in college sports in America and its subversion of traditional educational and amateur principles.
Author : Timothy L. Fields
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421448963
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book The Black Family's Guide to College Admissions written by Timothy L. Fields and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2024-01-15 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book will educate Black families on the college admission process and provide them with the information, tools, and knowledge they need to explore college options"--
Author : Ted Tapper
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100014402X
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Fee-paying Schools and Educational Change in Britain written by Ted Tapper and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-25 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the history of access to private education this work sheds light on the interaction of state, society and schooling. Organized historically, much of the analysis concentrates on contemporary political struggles, and evaluates the possibility of a unified educational system.
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Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080448941
Total Pages : 6964 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (84 download)
Download or read book International Encyclopedia of Education written by and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2009-04-17 with total page 6964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of education has experienced extraordinary technological, societal, and institutional change in recent years, making it one of the most fascinating yet complex fields of study in social science. Unequalled in its combination of authoritative scholarship and comprehensive coverage, International Encyclopedia of Education, Third Edition succeeds two highly successful previous editions (1985, 1994) in aiming to encapsulate research in this vibrant field for the twenty-first century reader. Under development for five years, this work encompasses over 1,000 articles across 24 individual areas of coverage, and is expected to become the dominant resource in the field. Education is a multidisciplinary and international field drawing on a wide range of social sciences and humanities disciplines, and this new edition comprehensively matches this diversity. The diverse background and multidisciplinary subject coverage of the Editorial Board ensure a balanced and objective academic framework, with 1,500 contributors representing over 100 countries, capturing a complete portrait of this evolving field. A totally new work, revamped with a wholly new editorial board, structure and brand-new list of meta-sections and articles Developed by an international panel of editors and authors drawn from senior academia Web-enhanced with supplementary multimedia audio and video files, hotlinked to relevant references and sources for further study Incorporates ca. 1,350 articles, with timely coverage of such topics as technology and learning, demography and social change, globalization, and adult learning, to name a few Offers two content delivery options - print and online - the latter of which provides anytime, anywhere access for multiple users and superior search functionality via ScienceDirect, as well as multimedia content, including audio and video files
Author : Steven G. Brint
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804745315
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book The Future of the City of Intellect written by Steven G. Brint and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on new data and new analytical frameworks, this book assesses the forces of change at play in the development of American universities and their prospects for the future. The book begins with a lengthy introduction by Clark Kerr that not only provides an overview of change since the time he coined the phrase the city of intellect but also discusses the major changes that will affect American universities over the next thirty years. Part One examines demographic and economic changes, such as the rise of nearly universal higher education, private gift and corporate sponsorship of research, new labor market opportunities, and increasing inequality among institutions and disciplines. Part Two assesses the profound influence of the Internet and other technologies on teaching and learning. Part Three describes how the various forces of change affect the nature of academic research and the organization of disciplines and the curriculum. Part Four analyzes the consequences of change for university governance and the means by which universities in the future can maintain high levels of achievement while maintaining high levels of autonomy. The contributors include many of todays leading scholars of higher education. They are Andrew Abbott, Steven Brint, Richard Chait, Burton R. Clark, Randall Collins, David J. Collis, Roger L. Geiger, Patricia J. Gumport, Clark Kerr, Richard A. Lanham, Jason Owen-Smith, Walter W. Powell, Sheila Slaughter, and Carol Tomlinson-Keasey.
