The Burden Of Academic Success

Author : Allison L. Hurst
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739140612
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Burden of Academic Success written by Allison L. Hurst and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Burden of Academic Success: Loyalists, Renegades, and Double Agents explores class identity reconstructions among working-class students attending a public university. Rather than focus on working-class failure, this book takes a critical look at the psychological and social costs of academic success. Based on several hours of interviews with a diverse group of working-class students, this book describes how successful students respond to, react to, and manage their academic success. The book does for class what other theorists have done for race, examining the dynamic interplay of class identity and educational success/social mobility. The distinguishing features of the book are rich narrative detail; compelling stories of student success and struggle; intersectional analysis exploring the ways class, race, and gender inform each other in students' understandings and narratives with an interwoven theory throughout; and a new typology for understanding working-class student responses to the burden of academic success. The Burden of Academic Success is ideal for courses on sociology, education, and American studies as well as for use by college educators and administrators.

Author : Wesley R. Habley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470888431
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Increasing Persistence written by Wesley R. Habley and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INCREASING PERSISTENCE "Of all the books addressing the puzzle of student success and persistence, I found this one to be the most helpful and believe it will be extremely useful to faculty and staff attempting to promote student success. The authors solidly ground their work in empirical research, and do a brilliant job providing both an overview of the relevant literature as well as research-based recommendations for intervention." GAIL HACKETT, PH.D., provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs; professor, counseling and educational psychology, University of Missouri, Kansas City Research indicates that approximately forty percent of all college students never earn a degree anywhere, any time in their lives. This fact has not changed since the middle of the 20th century. Written for practitioners and those who lead retention and persistence initiatives at both the institutional and public policy levels, Increasing Persistence offers a compendium on college student persistence that integrates concept, theory, and research with successful practice. It is anchored by the ACT's What Works in Student Retention (WWISR) survey of 1,100 colleges and universities, an important resource that contains insights on the causes of attrition and identifies retention interventions that are most likely to enhance student persistence.?? The authors focus on three essential conditions for student success: students must learn; students must be motivated, committed, engaged, and self-regulating; and students must connect with educational programs consistent with their interests and abilities. The authors offer a detailed discussion of the four interventions that research shows are the most effective for helping students persist and succeed: assessment and course placement, developmental education initiatives, academic advising, and student transition programming. Finally, they urge broadening the current retention construct, providing guidance to policy makers, campus leaders, and individuals on the contributions they can make to student success.

Author : Blandina Bernal-Morales
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 1789237300
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Health and Academic Achievement written by Blandina Bernal-Morales and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-09-19 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emotional, physical and social well-being describe human health from birth. Good health goes hand in hand with the ability to handle stress for the future. However, biological factors such as diet, life experiences such as drug abuse, bullying, burnout and social factors such as family and community support at the school stage tend to mold health problems, affecting academic achievements. This book is a compilation of current scientific information about the challenges that students, families and teachers face regarding health and academic achievements. Contributions also relate to how physical activity, psychosocial support and other interventions can be made to understand resilience and vulnerability to school desertion. This book will be of interest to readers from broad professional fields, non-specialist readers, and those involved in education policy.

Author : Carlton R.V. Witte
Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 : 1982239611
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Student Success with Less Stress written by Carlton R.V. Witte and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2019-12-11 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young people want to know how they can be successful and do so without being stressed. Adults in their lives want to help. The principles presented in this book provide students with powerful tools to help meet the challenges they face today. It also gives parents potent suggestions on how they can support their children to be successful academically and socially—with less stress. Being “educated” is more than academics. Educated students have learned success principles not taught in the typical classroom. Educated students are less prone to stress, and generally happier. This book will show youth how to be truly “educated”. Some of the “tips” in Student Success with Less Stress include: • Proven motivational and success principles. • Dynamic study strategies. • Mega-learning: What schools do not teach. • Memorizing made easy. • Classroom strategies for the extra edge. • Reducing stress and anxiety. • Overcoming roadblocks to achievement. • How to be a great leader. • How parents can support and respond. • Learning differences and how to access special education programs. • Maneuvering the college search and application process. • Paying for college. • Our education system (and students) at risk, and what can be done.

Author : James E. Groccia
Publisher : Glenbridge Publishing Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780944435151
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The College Success Book written by James E. Groccia and published by Glenbridge Publishing Ltd.. This book was released on 1992 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Vilma Seeberg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000361969
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Family Engagement in Black Students’ Academic Success written by Vilma Seeberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely volume presents powerful stories told by Black families and students who have successfully negotiated a racially fraught, affluent, and diverse suburban school district in America, to illustrate how they have strategically contested sanctioned racist practices and forged a path for students to achieve a high-quality education. Drawing on rich qualitative data collected through interviews and interactions with parents and kin, students, community activists, and educators, Family Engagement in Black Students’ Academic Success chronicles how pride in Black American family history and values, students’ personal capabilities, and their often collective, proactive challenges to systemic and personal racism shape students’ academic engagement. Familial and collective cultural wealth of the Black community emerges as a central driver in students’ successful achievement. Finally, the text puts forward key recommendations to demonstrate how incorporating the knowledge and voices of Black families in school decision making, remaining critically conscious of race and racial history in everyday actions and longer term policy, and pursuing collective strategies for social justice in education, will help eliminate current opportunity gaps, and will counteract the master narrative of underachievement ever-present in America. This volume will be of interest to students, scholars, and academics with an interest in matters of social justice, equity, and equality of opportunity in education for Black Americans. In addition, the text offers key insights for school authorities in building effective working relationships with Black American families to support the high achievement of Black students in K-12 education.

Author : Bobby Allen, Ed.D.
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1312060026
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Academic Success For African-American Students written by Bobby Allen, Ed.D. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This mixed-methods study of 157 disadvantaged African-American students and six teachers investigated the effectiveness of an after-school tutoring program in improving students' grades. The reading, English language arts and mathematics grades of student participants were compared using independent t-tests and analysis of variance. The grades of participants were also compared to corresponding grades of non-participants. Results showed significant benefits in all areas. The author asserts that there exists a better way to educate African-American students and assure greater academic success.

Author : James Klemaszewski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781465242167
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Academic Success written by James Klemaszewski and published by . This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book can be used outside of the classroom, or as an in-class textbook. As a textbook, it can stand alone (e.g., for a first-year experience course) or be used as a supplemental text for any course. The book is developed on the successes and experiences of the author and the people (students and professionals) who have contributed ideas and quotes. The book is divided into two parts, with fifteen chapters in each part, which is consistent with the length of traditional college semesters. One chapter from each part can be read each week over the course of a semester, or the book can be read sequentially. The assignments at the end of each chapter can be used in a variety of ways. They can serve as discussion prompts to introduce a topic, or as thought questions after a chapter has been read. The questions, as well as the content of each chapter, may be supplemented with your own experiences as well as those of the class. The material in the chapters can be presented by the course instructor, or can be used to allow students the opportunity to develop their presentation skills at times during the semester. Assignment questions can be answered verbally as part of class discussions, or, alternatively, answers can be written in order to assess and develop students written communication skills. However you use this book, as a teacher or a student, may your endeavors be successful "

Author : Lisa M. Nunn
Publisher : Critical Issues in American Ed
ISBN 13 : 9781978807655
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book College Belonging written by Lisa M. Nunn and published by Critical Issues in American Ed. This book was released on 2021 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: College Belonging reveals how colleges' and universities' efforts to foster a sense of belonging in their students are misguided. Colleges bombard new students with the message to "get out there!" and "find your place" by joining student organizations, sports teams, clubs and the like. Nunn shows that this reflects a flawed understanding of what belonging is and how it works. Drawing on the sociological theories of Emile Durkheim, College Belonging shows that belonging is something that members of a community offer to each other. It is something that must be given, like a gift. Individuals cannot simply walk up to a group or community and demand belonging. That's not how it works. The group must extend a sense of belonging to each and every member. It happens by making a person feel welcome, to feel that their presence matters to the group, that they would be missed if they were gone. This critical insight helps us understand why colleges' push for students simply to "get out there!" does not always work.

Author : Robert J. Sternberg
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 160752516X
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Optimizing Student Success in School with the Other Three Rs written by Robert J. Sternberg and published by IAP. This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Other Three R’s model began as an American Psychological Association (APA) initiative, sponsored by Robert J. Sternberg, IBM Professor of Psychology and Education at Yale University and Past President of the APA. For both this initiative and this edited volume, Sternberg assembled a diverse team of experts who identified reasoning, resilience and responsibility as three learnable skills that, when taken together, have great potential for increasing academic success. The authors of this volume present in detail their evidence-based arguments for promoting TOTRs in schools as a way to optimize student success.