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A comprehensive handbook for high school teens who have not yet established their post-graduation path outlines options ranging from training programs and the military to community colleges and universities to help students decide which course is best for them.
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In 1902, Martha Berry founded the Industrial School for Boys to educate the children of the Southern Appalachian Mountains, and in 1909 the school admitted women. The institution grew from a mountain industrial school to a two-year college in its first twenty-four years, became a four-year college in 1930, and has since become one of the leading liberal arts colleges in the South. This volume portrays, in word and image, the role of sports at Berry...
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College Success is more than getting into a college or university. Success means leaving-in four years-with a college degree. College in Four Years is the essential guide to graduating in just four years with better grades and less stress while keeping tuition costs low.
At colleges and universities, large and small, Professor Sawyer has coached, counseled and cajoled students to success-helping more than 10,000 students earn college degrees. After...
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If You're Taking the COMPASS Exam and Need Help with Math, Bob Miller has Your Solution! Bob Miller's Math Review for the COMPASS Exam. Bob Miller has taught math to thousands of students at all educational levels for 30 years. His proven teaching methods help college-bound students succeed on the math portion of the COMPASS exam. Written in a lively and unique format, Bob Miller's Math Review for the COMPASS Exam contains everything COMPASS test-takers...
25) College Is Not Mandatory: A Parent's Guide to Navigating the Options Available to Our Kids After Hig
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Discover Tools for Talking to Your Teen About Their Future (No Yelling Required!) I know parents like you want to help your team feel confident about their plans after high school but you're not sure how to help your teen determine a direction that reflects their values, passions, and interests. Your teen dodges your questions about their future plans. You then resort to lectures and arguments, which fuels your student's anxiety over making a decision...
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Inspired by actual events, this timely, gritty, and thought-provoking novel chronicles the four-year college experiences of Jon Quest, an African American student from the North who is attending a prestigious military university in the South. Jon does not live by the code dictated to African Americans in the South and is therefore repeatedly the target of racist attacks...until he starts fighting back.
Despite constant assaults, Jon refuses to be...
27) From Pen 2 Pen
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From Pen 2 Pen... examines the life of an individual who spent time in the Prison Industrial Complex. The story begins by analyzing society, in regard to, the constitution and how men and women are treated based on the color of their skin. As a result, of the rules that govern society, the author, describes his stay in a maximum security prison. This episode led the author down a path that was unforeseen but became a reality, which affects how he...
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Doug French's Verbal Workout for the Accuplacer Test Prep Gets You a High Score! REA's new Accuplacer test prep gets examinees ready for the Verbal portion of the exam. More than 1,300 high schools, technical schools, community colleges, and four-year colleges across the country use the Accuplacer to determine the skill levels of incoming students. Students at all learning levels will benefit from this comprehensive college placement test prep. If...
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Simone plans to spend her postgraduation summer painting, taking care of her great-aunt, and working in an art gallery -- not mud wrestling and giving her first time to the yard boy.In this new adult contemporary romance with sex, of innocence lost, Simone discovers the real meaning of high class and how her feelings can sweep her away.The glamorous artist or the down to earth hunk who makes a living cutting grass?Four-year college degree in hand,...
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"Winner of the 2001 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Sociology and Anthropology, Association of American Publishers" Henry N. Drewry is Senior Advisor to the Mellon Foundation, where he was a program officer from 1988 to 1997. He served on the Board of Trustees of Talladega College, and has taught at both the college and high-school level. He was Director of the Teacher Preparation Program and Lecturer in History at Princeton University....
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"Diane Tavenner, founder of Summit Public Schools, offers a blueprint for a better way to educate our children, based on the revolutionary lessons, insights, and methodology she and her faculty developed over 15 years at their famously successful charter schools in California and Washington, which she is now introducing to public school systems across the country that Summit is partnering with to transform education and better prepare our children...
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2023.
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"What if a getting into top four-year college is no longer the holy grail of success that it once seemed to be? What if the key to kids achieving their potential in life has less to do with grades or test scores and more with critical skills overlooked in schools? Erasing the Finish Line directly addresses those points by highlighting a reality about our education system that we seem to hear about more and more these days-college acceptance is a faulty...
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"Harry Mills is a guardian angel on a mission: help twenty-four-year-old Addie Folsom get her life back on track--and, if the right moment strikes, help her find love. Posing as a teacher at a local college in Tacoma, Washington, Harry is up to the task, but not even he can predict the surprises that lay in store. After trying to make it on her own, Addie has returned home to Tacoma for the holidays, but this time she plans to stay for good, enrolling...
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"College is a time of learning. But it'll be hard to ace your classes if you fail to feed yourself well. 'The Five-Ingredient College Cookbook' makes it easy for students to prepare truly tasty, mostly healthy, and totally realistic meals. They're still fast. They're still cheap. But they're a whole lot better for you than the alternative." -- Back cover.
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 21
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IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 20
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When she is hired by a preppy college dropout to discover what happened to a four-year-old girl who disappeared more than twenty years earlier, Kinsey Millhone investigates the young man's sketchy memories about a burial scene he believes he discovered at the age of six.
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"In 1997 four friends graduate from college to pursue their individual goals and dreams. Twenty years later they are drawn together again. This is a story about finding the courage to carry on in the wake of disappointment, and a powerful testament to love and friendship as the constants in an ever-changing world"--
37) Chances are
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"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Richard Russo--in his first stand-alone novel in a decade--comes a new revelation: a gripping story about the abiding yet complex power of friendship. One beautiful September day, three sixty-six-year old men convene on Martha's Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college circa the sixties. They couldn't have been more different then, or even today--Lincoln's a commercial real estate broker, Teddy a tiny-press...
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In 1937, as the Nazis gained control and anti-Semitism spread in the Free City of Danzig, a majority German city on the Baltic Sea, sixteen-year-old Justus Rosenberg was sent to Paris to finish his education in safety. Three years later, France fell to the Germans. Alone and in danger, penniless, and cut off from contact with his family in Poland, Justus fled south. A chance meeting led him to Varian Fry, an American journalist in Marseille helping...
39) The dying animal
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Kepesh novels volume 3
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A prominent TV culture critic and lecturer, sixty-plus David Kepesh finds his world thrown into erotic turmoil by Consuela Castillo, a twenty-four-year-old beauty who ignites in him sexual possessiveness, unreasoning jealousy, and obsessive passion.
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When basketball fans hear the words Final Four, they probably think of the buzzer-beaters, Cinderella stories, and bracket-busters that have thrilled people for years. However, you don't need to be a die-hard fan to know that the NCAA men's basketball tournament is one of the most popular sports events in the United States. By the time the tournament of 68 teams has been whittled down to the Final Four, excitement reaches a fever pitch. From the first...