College athletes are at the very center of emerging campus debates over their legal, financial, and academic role. Amid ongoing litigation and pressure from internal and external stakeholders, many policy makers and university leaders are scrambling to determine the nature of this role. This timely and comprehensive volume identifies and ......
The Mixed Signals, Challenges, and New Language First-Generation Stude
This book explores how a working-class rural environment influences students' collegiate aspirations and access. Centered on a case study of the concepts of college knowledge and university jargon in rural public high schools, it offers analysis as well as strategies for helping students and counselors learn academic language.
The Mixed Signals, Challenges, and New Language First-Generation Stude
This book explores how a working-class rural environment influences students' collegiate aspirations and access. Centered on a case study of the concepts of college knowledge and university jargon in rural public high schools, it offers analysis as well as strategies for helping students and counselors learn academic language.
This book outlines the contributions school counselors and others make to the development and college and career readiness of each student at the elementary, middle and high school levels.
This book outlines the contributions school counselors and others make to the development and college and career readiness of each student at the elementary, middle and high school levels.
Brush up on your first year of college-level math with our new College Algebra guide! Pinpointed essentials of college algebra are covered in our easy-to-access format that includes succinct explanations of step-by-step problem solving, as well as the related mathematical rules. Whether you are in high school or college, taking the course for your ......
This book addresses the concerns students have about their college futures as well as the concerns of incoming freshman: when to start thinking about college, how to choose the right school, tips for a successful application, scholarship opportunities, registering for classes, how to manage stress, choosing (and changing) majors, etc.
Winner, William H. Welch Medal, American Association for the History of MedicineWinner, Ludwik Fleck Prize, Society for Social Studies of ScienceWinner, General History Award, New South Wales Premiers History Awards
When whites first encountered the Fore people in the isolated highlands of colonial New Guinea ......
Spaces of Social Mobility and the Individualism Myth
This book reads twentieth-century autobiography and oral histories spatially to unearth how writers and activists understood social mobility as a collective process. In so doing, they constructed a counter-mythology to the American dream myth of individualism.
