Tough, Paul
Summary: "The best-selling author of How Children Succeed returns with a devastatingly powerful, mind-changing inquiry into higher education in the United States"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 378.1 TOULight, Richard J.
Summary: "Based on ten years of interviews with Harvard students, this professor shares what faculty, administrators, & students can do to make the most of their college experience. Research findings are used to make policy suggestions in the areas of course design, faculty-student interaction, & the planned integration of students from different ethnic, racial, & social class backgrounds. The author...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 378.198 LIGSummary: "At the tiny Greenwood School in the small New England town of Putney, Vermont, its roughly 50 students, boys from the ages 11 to 17 are asked each year to memorize the Gettysburg Address. This would be a daunting assignment for any student, but the boys at Greenwood all suffer from learning differences that have made their personal, academic and social progress extremely challenging. As the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ADDLasko-Gross
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics 2009
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 LASAbboud, Soo Kim.
Summary: Offers a study of the practices, values, and ideals that promote academic, professional, and personal success among Asian Americans, explaining how to instill a love of learning, how to get youngsters excited about school, how to guide a child's personalchoices with encouraging initiative and independence, and how to help children set worthwhile long-term goals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.7 ABBAkasaka, Aka
Summary: "Will Yu make a confession of love? Who would date someone who is both an emo gamer and a former school pariah ...? Meanwhile, someone is ready to confess her love to Miyuki--and it's not Kaguya! Then Miko sabotages a romantic tour of a haunted house, Miyuki reveals some unexpected nonacademic skills, Kaguya accidentally dispenses good advice and a fortune-teller foretells an ominous date for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 KAGAkasaka, Aka
Summary: "Two geniuses. Two brains. Two hearts. One battle. Who will confess their love first...?!... Will this romantic comedy turn into a thriller? Two warring factions in Kaguya's family are trying to force her personal assistant, Ai, to abandon Kaguya and serve them. While Miyuki tries to save Ai from getting kidnapped, she sends an urgent message to Kaguya to meet her at the place where their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2021