Teach Like
Your Hair's on Fire: The Methods and
Madness Inside Room 56
by Rafe
Esquith
From the man whom The New York
Times calls "a genius and a saint"
comes a revelatory program for educating
today's youth. In Teach Like Your
Hair's on Fire!, Rafe Esquith reveals
the techniques that have made him one of
the most acclaimed educators of our time.
The two mottoes in Esquith's classroom are
"Be Nice, Work Hard," and "There Are No
Shortcuts." His students voluntarily come
to school at 6:30 in the morning and work
until 5:00 in the afternoon. They learn to
handle money responsibly, tackle algebra,
and travel the country to study history.
They pair Hamlet with rock and roll, and
read the American classics. Teach Like
Your Hair's on Fire! is a brilliant and
inspiring road map for parents, teachers,
and anyone who cares about the future
success of our nation's children.
God's
Harvard: A Christian College on a Mission
to Save America
by Hanna
Rosin
Since 2000, America's most ambitious
young evangelicals have been making their
way to Patrick Henry College, a small
Christian school just outside the nation's
capital. Most of them are homeschoolers
whose idealism and discipline put the
average American teenager to shame. And
God's Harvard grooms these students to be
the elite of tomorrow, dispatching them to
the front lines of politics,
entertainment, and science, to wage the
battle to take back a godless nation.
Hanna Rosin spent a year and a half
embedded at the college, following the
students from the campus to the White
House, Congress, conservative think tanks,
Hollywood, and other centers of influence.
Her account captures this nerve center of
the evangelical movement at a moment of
maximum influence and also of crisis, as
it struggles to avoid the temptations of
modern life and still remake the world in
its own image.
The Ivey
Guide to Law School Admissions: Straight
Advice on Essays, Resumes, Interviews, and
More
by Anna
Ivey
As dean of admissions at the University
of Chicago Law School, Anna Ivey decided
the fate of thousands of law school
applicants. In this book-the first of its
kind by a former law school admissions
officer-she draws on her expertise to
cover topics from the application and the
essay to the interview and the
recommendations, touching on hot-button
issues like how much the LSAT, ethnicity,
and age really matter. Offering an
insider's advice on how to produce the
very best application, this guide gives
straight answers to questions such as:
What kind of essay should I write
to set me apart from the rest of the
pack?
Should I explain my low LSAT score,
my D in chemistry, my attention deficit
disorder, my time in rehab?
Is law school worth the debt I'll
face when I graduate?
Full of invaluable examples and
anecdotes about real admissions decisions,
The Ivey Guide to Law School
Admissions is certain to become the
new bible for would-be law students
everywhere.
The
Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven
Kids
by Alexandra
Robbins
With record numbers of students
competing fiercely to get into college,
schools are no longer primarily places of
learning. Theyre dog-eat-dog battlegrounds
in which kids must set aside interests and
passions in order to strategize over how
to game the system. In this increasingly
stressful environment, kids arent defined
by their character or hunger for
knowledge, but by often arbitrary scores
and statistics.
In The Overachievers, journalist
Alexandra Robbins delivers a poignant,
funny, riveting narrative that explores
how our high-stakes educational culture
has spiraled out of control. Robbins
tackles hard-hitting issues such as the
student and teacher cheating epidemic,
over-testing, sports rage, the black
market for study drugs, and a college
admissions process so cutthroat that some
students are driven to depression and
suicide because of a B.
The College Board Scholarship Handbook
2005 is the ideal resource for students
and parents looking for alternative ways
to fund a college education. It provides
complete and authoritative facts about
more than 2,100 scholarships, internships,
and loan programs offered to
undergraduates nationwide by foundations,
charitable organizations, and state and
federal government agencies. Each program
is clearly described, and indexes help
students quickly find scholarships for
which they qualify.
The College Board College Cost and
Financial Aid Handbook 2005 provides
easy-to-understand answers for all the
questions students and parents have about
financing a college degree. This
time-saving and stress-relieving guide
provides the facts and figures needed to
calculate the true costs, after factoring
in financial aid, at over 3,000 four- and
two-year colleges. Entries for each
college include itemized tuition and fee
information; itemized charts of all
student expenses; and payment plan
information. Also includes useful indexes,
articles on the financial aid process, and
worksheets.
The Davidsons show parents and
educators how to reach and challenge
gifted students. They offer practical
advice based on their experience as
founders of a nonprofit organization that
assists gifted children. They show parents
how to become their children's advocates,
how to win support for gifted students
within the local schools, and when and how
to go outside the school system. They
discuss everything from acceleration
("skipping" a grade) to homeschooling and
finding mentors for children. They tell
stories of real parents and students who
overcame poor schooling environments to
discover the joy of learning.
