Education

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.

Work Accomplished
How to Become a Straight-A Student: The Unconventional Strategies Real College Students Use to Score High While Studying Less
by Cal Newport
Looking to jumpstart your GPA? Most college students believe that straight A's can be achieved only through cramming and painful all-nighters at the library. But Cal Newport knows that real straight-A students don't study harder - they study smarter.

Why College Makes No Sense
Real World Careers: Why College Is Not the Only Path to Becoming Rich
by Betsy Cummings
A Great Career-Without a College Degree! Possible? Absolutely! Today's job market has lots of room for people who leave school early or don't plan to go to college at all.

The $500,000 Question
The Kindergarten Wars: The Battle to Get into America's Best Private Schools
by Alan Eisenstock
Honest, funny, suspenseful, and emotional, this is the first nonfiction book ever to take you inside all aspects of the private-school application process. Alan Eisenstock followed several families across the country from their first school tours

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.

Introduction
Roadblocks to Learning: Understanding the Obstacles that Can Sabotage Your Child's Academic Success
by Lawrence J. Greene
This comprehensive and easy-to-understand guide explains more than seventy types of learning impediments and counterproductive behaviors - including dyslexia, depression, test-taking phobias, ineffectual problem solving, teacher-child conflict

Elementary School Success Helps Keep Kids Drug Free
by SAMHSA
Children in elementary school learn that part of being a success is doing well in the classroom. But there's another benefit to school success: Kids who do well in school are more likely to be drug free.

The Rising Costs of Education
Generation Debt: Take Control of Your Money - A How-to Guide
by Carmen Wong Ulrich
Why does it cost so damn much if it's basically a requirement? We can go to public high schools on our parents' tax dollars because it's required. So why is a college education getting exorbitantly - almost prohibitively - expensive the more we need it?

'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

Single-Sex Education and Why It Matters
All Girls: Single-Sex Education and Why It Matters
by Karen Stabiner
A friend with a daughter older than my own was trying to make an impossible decision. Should she send the girl to a coed school for seventh grade, or to an all-girls school? She had no idea what a girls' school was like; she and everyone she knew had gone

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.

High School Dropouts
Success Without College: Why Your Child May Not Have to Go to College Right Now-and May Not Have to Go At All
by Linda Lee
Almost half a million teenagers drop out of high school every year, according to the United States Department of Education. In New York City, half of the entering freshmen don't graduate from high school.

Introduction
The Educated Child
by William J. Bennett, Chester E. Finn, Jr., John T. E. Cribb, Jr.
The purpose of this book is to help you secure a good education for your child from early childhood through the eighth grade. As far as learning goes, these years are far and away the most important.

Blundering Into the Future: Hype and Hope
Failure to Connect
by Jane M. Healy, Ph.D.
Technology shapes the growing mind. The younger the mind, the more malleable it is. The younger the technology, the more unproven it is. We enthusiastically expose our youngsters to new digital teachers and playmates, but we also express concern about

Kids' Brains Must Be Different ...
Endangered Minds: Why Children Don't Think And What We Can Do About It
by Jane M. Healy, Ph.D.
'Kids' brains must be different these days,' I remarked half jokingly as I graded student essays in the faculty room late one afternoon. 'If I didn't think it was impossible, I would agree with you,' chimed in a colleague who had experienced

Higher and Higher Education
Strapped
by Tamara Draut
Soaring tuition costs combined with cuts to financial aid have forced students into massive debt and priced many smart kids out of four-year colleges altogether.

The Tortilla Test
The Gatekeepers: Inside the Admissions Process of a Premier College
by Jacques Steinberg
In the fall of 1999, New York Times education reporter Jacques Steinberg was given an unprecedented opportunity to observe the admissions process at prestigious Wesleyan University. Over the course of nearly a year, Steinberg accompanied admissions office

Teacher-Learner Relationships: The Missing Link
Teacher Effectiveness Training: The Program Proven to Help Teachers Bring Out the Best in Students of All Ages
by Dr. Thomas Gordon
Teaching is a universal pursuit-everybody does it. Parents teach their children, employers teach their employees, coaches teach their players, wives teach their husbands (and vice versa), and, of course, professional teachers teach their students.

The Case Against College
Success Without College: Why Your Child May Not Have to Go to College Right Now-and May Not Have to Go At All
by Linda Lee
Here is who belongs in college: the high-achieving student who is interested in learning for learning's sake, those who intend to become schoolteachers and those young people who seem certain to go on to advanced degrees in law, medicine, architecture

Penguins 7, Jets 0
Deconstructing Penguins: Parents, Kids, and the Bond of Reading
by Lawrence Goldstone, Ph.D., Nancy Goldstone
The day we picked to hold our first parent-child book group at our local public library was Sunday, January 10, 1999. Like everything else about the book group, this date and the time-3:30 in the afternoon-had been carefully chosen after months