The common questions among college and university Christian and non Christian students are: what is the secret of academic success? How can I succeed? How can I balance my academics with my spirituality? These and many other relevant questions are intelligently and concisely discussed in this booklet

The common questions among college and university Christian and non Christian students are: what is the secret of academic success? How can I succeed? How can I balance my academics with my spirituality? These and many other relevant questions are intelligently and concisely discussed in this booklet.

If you can be admitted to a post–high school training program, a vocational training program, or a college or university, you have the potential for academic success... But to reach your full potential in higher education, you need to develop advanced academic skills. The Seven Secrets outlined in this workbook by Ann Rodier, Ph.D. will help you do so. Dr. Rodier is a private educational consultant who spent decades as an administrator and academic adviser at colleges and universities. You were taught many subjects in high school, but you might not have learned the strategies in this workbook, such as the best way to study, how to manage time, educational planning, organizational skills and test-taking skills. The workbook includes a time management worksheet, quizzes, self-assessments, information on financing your education, methods for evaluating current study habits, and much more. By following the Secrets revealed in this workbook, you can move your academic performance to a higher level and achieve what once seemed impossible.

An inside look at America's most controversial charter schools, and the moral and political questions around public education and school choice. The promise of public education is excellence for all. But that promise has seldom been kept for low-income children of color in America. In How the Other Half Learns, teacher and education journalist Robert Pondiscio focuses on Success Academy, the network of controversial charter schools in New York City founded by Eva Moskowitz, who has created something unprecedented in American education: a way for large numbers of engaged and ambitious low-income families of color to get an education for their children that equals and even exceeds what wealthy families take for granted. Her results are astonishing, her methods unorthodox. Decades of well-intended efforts to improve our schools and close the "achievement gap" have set equity and excellence at war with each other: If you are wealthy, with the means to pay private school tuition or move to an affluent community, you can get your child into an excellent school. But if you are poor and black or brown, you have to settle for "equity" and a lecture--about fairness. About the need to be patient. And about how school choice for you only damages public schools for everyone else. Thousands of parents have chosen Success Academy, and thousands more sit on waiting lists to get in. But Moskowitz herself admits Success Academy "is not for everyone," and this raises uncomfortable questions we'd rather not ask, let alone answer: What if the price of giving a first-rate education to children least likely to receive it means acknowledging that you can't do it for everyone? What if some problems are just too hard for schools alone to solve?

A surprisingly simple way for students to master any subject--based on one of the world's most popular online courses and the bestselling book A Mind for Numbers A Mind for Numbers and its wildly popular online companion course "Learning How to Learn" have empowered more than two million learners of all ages from around the world to master subjects that they once struggled with. Fans often wish they'd discovered these learning strategies earlier and ask how they can help their kids master these skills as well. Now in this new book for kids and teens, the authors reveal how to make the most of time spent studying. We all have the tools to learn what might not seem to come naturally to us at first--the secret is to understand how the brain works so we can unlock its power. This book explains: Why sometimes letting your mind wander is an important part of the learning process How to avoid "rut think" in order to think outside the box Why having a poor memory can be a good thing The value of metaphors in developing understanding A simple, yet powerful, way to stop procrastinating Filled with illustrations, application questions, and exercises, this book makes learning easy and fun.

The secrets of Academic Success is a book outlining practical ways of acquiring, organizing and using knowledge for academic purposes. Written in simple language, the ideas contained therein are not only informative but also easily demonstrable. This is one book whose insights will help you approach your academic goals with knowing confidence. A most compelling contribution of the book is in providing tools that make academic achievement commonplace. Academic success then becomes something that can be attained by anyone based on awareness, decision and effort.