Education

If You Believe What Children Say
The Pressured Child: Helping Your Child Find Success in School and Life
by Michael Thompson, Ph.D., Teresa Barker
The question How was school today? may be the most-asked and least-answered question in America. It is the question that all parents are compelled to voice every day sometime between three p.m. and bedtime. Still, we cannot help ourselves.

Safety for Adults in Schools
Creating Emotionally Safe Schools: A Guide for Educators and Parents
by Jane Bluestein, Ph.D.
If schools are going to be safe for kids, they're going to have to be safe for grownups as well. Teachers, counselors, administrators and other school staff whose energy is distracted by a need to self-protect for any reason just don't have as much

Welcome To Your New Home
The College Dorm Survival Guide: How to Survive and Thrive in Your New Home Away from Home
by Julia DeVillers
The day you enter your college dorm, your life changes. This is no ordinary experience you're signing up for. Think about it. It's bizarre. A whole lot of people, pretty much the same age, all living together.

The Fall Flurry
The Launching Years: Strategies for Parenting from Senior Year to College Life
by Laura S. Kastner, Ph.D., Jennifer Wyatt, Ph.D.
There's an uncanny resemblance between parents-to-be in a childbirthing class and parents at a college-information night, preparing for their high schooler's launch from home. Throughout the challenges of the adolescent years, differences among families

Chapter 1 - What Safety Is
Creating Emotionally Safe Schools: A Guide for Educators and Parents
by Jane Bluestein, Ph.D.
It's 1999, right before Thanksgiving, and I'm sitting down to breakfast with the Sunday paper. I reach for the comics and the color supplements, which is where I normally start, but I can't get past the headlines: Deming Girl Dies.

'Cut Yer Thumb er Finger Off'
Jim Crow's Children: The Broken Promise of the Brown Decision
by Peter Irons, Ph.D., J.D.
These stories of former slaves, recorded in the 1930s by interviewers from the Federal Writers' Project, tell in poignant words of the struggle for education of people the Supreme Court described in its Dred Scott decision of 1857 as beings

Finding Happiness in Your Child
Ready to Learn : How to Help Your Preschooler Succeed
by Stan Goldberg, Ph.D.
What do you think about when someone says happiness? Usually, what comes tomind are things, or outcomes. Happiness can be a four-car garage in the suburbs, a high-paying job, an expensive new car, or a child who becomes a successful professional.

How to Use Your Mind
by Harry D. Kitson, Ph.D.
The kindly reception accorded to the first edition of this book has confirmed the author in his conviction that such a book was needed, and has tempted him to bestow additional labor upon it. The chief changes consist in the addition of two new chapters

Religious Education in the Family
by Henry F. Cope
The ills of the modern home are symptomatic. Divorce, childless families, irreverent children, and the decadence of the old type of separate home life are signs of forgotten ideals, lost motives, and insufficient purposes.

Woman and Womanhood: A Search for Principles
by C. W. Saleeby, M.D.
In the last chapter brief reference was made to the effects of ill-timed mental strain. Our principles have already led us to the conclusion that there are special risks for girls involved in educational strain

Studies in Pessimism
by Arthur Schopenhauer
The human intellect is said to be so constituted that general ideas arise by abstraction from particular observations, and therefore come after them in point of time. If this is what actually occurs, as happens in the case of a man who has to depend

Success
by Baron Max Aitken Beaverbrook
A great number of letters have reached me from young men who seem to think that the road to success is barred to them owing to defects in their education. To them I would send this message: Never believe that success cannot come your way because you have

The Target Audience
A Is for Admission: The Insider's Guide to Getting into the Ivy League and Other Top Colleges
by Michele A. Hernandez
For years it has been one of America's most guarded secrets. Now for the first time, an Ivy League admissions officer breaks the code of silence to take you behind the closed doors of one of the most rigorous and competitive decision-making procedures

The Family and it's Members
by Anna Garlin Spencer
To prepare us for complete living is the function which education has to discharge, and we judge the value of any training solely by reference to this end. For complete living we must know in what way to treat the body, in what way to treat the mind

Health and Education
by Rev. Charles Kingsley
Fresh from the Marbles of the British Museum, I went my way through London streets. My brain was still full of fair and grand forms; the forms of men and women whose every limb and attitude betokened perfect health, and grace, and power, and a self-posses

Welcome To The Wharton School
The Running of the Bulls
by Nicole Ridgway
Every August they arrive in droves. From Philadelphia International Airport, the New Jersey Turnpike, I-76 and I-95, parents drive their children to the University of Pennsylvania in order to release them into the wilds of college life.

Girls and Women
by Harriet E. Paine
What is a practical education for a girl? Whatever will fit her for life. The question and answer are trite. What will best fit a girl for life? First of all a well-balanced character. I knew a girl who was a good cook before she was ten years old

Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women
by George S. Weaver
Education, strictly speaking, covers the whole area of life. It is the word which means all God asks of us, all we owe to him, the world, and ourselves - that great word which expresses the sum total of human duty.

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects
by Mary Wollstonecraft
The good effects resulting from attention to private education will ever be very confined, and the parent who really puts his own hand to the plow, will always, in some degree be disappointed, till education becomes a grand national concern.

Parent and Child, Volume III
by Mosiah Hall
There are four great agencies or factors concerned in the training and education of the child: these are, the home, the school, the church, and the state, or society. Of these, the home ought to be the most helpful since it is the most important.