Tyre, Peg.

Summary: From the moment they step into the classroom, boys begin to struggle. By eighth grade huge numbers are reading below basic level. Perhaps most alarmingly, boys now account for less than 43 percent of those enrolled in college, and the gap widens every semester! The growing gender imbalance in education portends massive shifts for the next generation: how much they make and whom they marry....

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.821 TYR

Glasser, William

Summary: Denouncing conventional coercive teaching methods as counterproductive, an education expert advocates a less adversarial method.

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 1998

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.2 GLA

Wagner, Tony

Summary: "One of the world's top experts on education delivers an uplifting memoir on his own personal failures and successes as he sought to become a good learner and teacher. Tony Wagner is an eminent education specialist: he's taught at Harvard and MIT; done significant work for the Gates Foundation; and speaks across the country and all over the world. But before he found his success, Tony was...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WAGNER, TONY WAG

LaRoque, Perry

Summary: Taking Flight provides the essential information students with disabilities will need to be successful in college.Rather than just focusing on the academic skills needed in college, Taking Flight addresses college as a system that needs to be mastered and the strategies and self-awareness needed to be successful.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Morgan James Publishing 2020

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 378 LAR