academic achievement

Offers strategies for studying, learning, and staying motivated in high school and college, featuring advice on managing time, writing essays, taking tests, and maintaining a healthy work-life balance.

Analyzes issues related to classroom assessment in higher education, with advice on how educators can develop effective assessment strategies for their class.

Teach for America founder Wendy Kopp shares stories of educational leaders who have transformed the lives of their students despite their socioeconomic backgrounds and offers strategies for ending educational inequalities in the United States.

An exploration of the debate over the education of boys and sex difference in education that discusses reasons boys may be falling behind and examines what can be done to help them.

Contains over twenty essays written by and for teens that offer advice on surviving high school, choosing a college, and the admissions process, and discuss alternatives to the four-year college.

Addresses all of the elements that are absolutely necessary for effective and enduring educational reform.

Explains the whole-faculty study group process as an approach to school reform, discussing the role of the principal, the developmental stages of study groups, and other topics, and looking at why the process is so successful when properly applied. Includes forms, action plans, logs, activities, and other resources.

Presents a step-by-step program showing how teachers, parents, and students can work together for student achievement.