In this book, the authors explain to us why they believe American higher education is in deep trouble. ... One of the concepts discussed in this book was sustaining and disruptive innovation. ... After reading the book, I too believe that American higher education is in fact at a crossroads. ... In the book, the author used a great example to explain the threat of disruptive innovations. ... As said in the book, the tendency to emulate Harvard is widespread, but not universal. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Because they do not have any educational conflicts, they are able to obtain better paying jobs or internships. Not only may the students use the money earned from their jobs to help pay college expenses, they are also capable of paying a variety of other types of expenses. Possessing a job and obtaining valuable work experience allows students to become more independent and more likely to succeed in the challenges they tackle. ... In fact, according to Taking Time Off, a book by Colin Hall and Ron Lieber, taking a year off to do something different such as working, traveling, or even vo...

• Word Count: 787
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In his book, Ain't No Makin' It, Jay MacLeod tells how a group of poor students in a particular school were able to relate to a teacher (Jimmy Sullivan) who spoke their "language."" " It was cool, cuz like you walk in there you talk to Jimmy, and you know Jimmy's real cool, - said one of his students. ... In their book, Social Foundations of Educational Decisions, Fischer and Thomas state that distinctive things about a subculture (including language and behavior) have a definite influence on a child's learning style (26-27) and that "informal education- "which occurs...

• Word Count: 1645
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A majority of today's jobs do not require employees to have a vast knowledge of literature in order for them to do their job proficiently. ... Boone Pickens, while Brian Adams was reading The Book of Small, by Emily Carr (Anderson). ...

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This book was very successful at showing the two sides of this issue: that those of the oppressed class have legitimate reasons for rejecting Euro-centrist approaches to instruction, and that members of the oppressing class carry with them assumptions that make multi-cultural education less than perfectly successful. This, I think, makes our job as educators much more difficult. ...

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Such education would be likely to trivialize women into the arts of pleasing men, fostering the development of sexual flirts rather than creative human beings, as if their only mission in life was winning and serving a husband and bearing children for him: not exactly vital education to help a women get a respectable job, or create a future. ... Mary Wollstonecraft matured as a political thinker and in 1792 wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Women, a book which argues against the forces that kept women ignorant and the shallowness they were encouraged to engage in. In the book Wollstonecra...

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Reaction The book offers insight criticism of American universities and colleges along with solutions that the authors think would reform the higher education system. ... Unfortunately, the authors ignore the basic need of coming up with a compelling solution, instead they do a good job of criticizing. ... The books has evoked responses, 75% of the book is simplistic hence there is no reason of more analysis and suggestions as ways of addressing the concrete issues....

• Word Count: 907
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His father received very little formal education in Mexico, until he left school to work for his uncle, and ended up in America with no high school education and a low-paying job. ... Rather, he was putting effort into getting a deeper understanding of each book, but found the themes useless or inapplicable to his life. ... We see that Rodriguez was trying very hard to find the meanings of each book he read, and yet he was too focused on "getting educated " to apply those meanings into his own life. ... When Rodriguez finally expanded his field from book knowledge to heart knowledge, he was a...

• Word Count: 1364
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"Manners to be Observed by Teachers and Students," is a volume of the book "The Revival of Religious Learning" written by Abū Ḥāmid Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Ghazālī, better known as al-Ghazālī. ... Vidaurri, in which she said "Writing is a skill that will always be helpful in life; it will help us in history, government, and it would be even more helpful in our future jobs....

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A person who sits in a chemistry lab for four years of college might get a fantastic, high-salary job, but the chances of them managing a conversation about politics, literature, or philosophy are relatively low. ... Inge Bell, in This Book Is Not Required, states that "self-knowledge is one aspect of wisdom (Bell 112)". ...

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Today this is no longer true, a college degree although it helps it's no longer a guarantee that one could get a job. ... This economical demand can go as far as to impair the freedom of the students because it imposes two approaches one can take to education: conform and get educated thus losing your sense of identity which doesn't even lead to an assured career given the fact that a degree is no insurance of success on the job market. ... Lard and Jarman (1993) published in a book a longitudinal study about divergent thinking. ...

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For instance, the book by Williams (2009) painted changes caused by technology as inevitable and impactful. ... This phase will take six months or two semesters and will be supported by on-job training sessions and seminars. ... Information will also be made available through the library and continued on-job training and seminars on the change. ...

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They will all be competing for the same jobs and, being a capitalist society, our country thrives on having the personnel to do the "blue-collar- jobs. ... We need the people who are, not necessarily less educated, but the people that will be happy to work at, say, a McDonald's or a Wal-Mart because they're getting a paycheck and happy to have a job at all. ... In Apple's book Cultural Politics and Education, the main argument that he makes is that because of the capitalist society in which Americans live today, people who start off with lower economic and social backgrounds a...

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For example, The Pronunciation Book by Bowen & Marks or 'Sound Foundations' by Adrian Underhill seem very different from a book such as Ship and Sheep by Baker. ... Pronunciation matters, of course, but "communicative English" is enough and represents a competitive advantage in the job market. ...

• Word Count: 2008
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Peter Singer's book, Animal Liberation, contains a very good description of speciesism, "Speciesism is a prejudice or attitude of bias in favor of the interests of one's own species and against those of members of other species." ...

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The government in this book also is non-discriminatory and provides education to all cultures. ... It is the responsibility of the government to provide good and qualified teachers that are interested in their job. ...

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Pearson from a book titled, "-What Research Has to Say About Reading Research- by Alan E. ... This paper will conclude by examining whether as educators a better job must be done to effectively teach reading comprehension. ... The understanding of the idea, moral, concept and theme of a book. ...

• Word Count: 3864
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Even with the growing recognition of the need for work on ITTE, it is interesting to note that the 1200-page Handbook of Research for Educational Communications and Technology (Jonassen, 1996) does not have a chapter on technology and teacher education, and the term teacher education does not appear in the index of the book. ...

• Word Count: 8566
• Approx Pages: 34
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate