Coming early March 2019 from Rowman & Littlefield, This Book Will Not Be on the Test helps families make the most of their educational investment.
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“As college costs continue to soar, it’s become even more important to get the most out of your time on campus. You can get on top of schoolwork, participate in rewarding extracurriculars, and prepare yourself for an exciting post-college life by following the steps in this smart, practical book.”
- Daniel H. Pink, Author of When and Drive
“Paul Rivas has a gift for understanding what it takes to unlock a young person’s academic potential. In this book is his invaluable guidance, for every type learner: something every college-bound student, and their parents, should read.”
- Judy Woodruff, PBS NewsHour
“Every kid who wants to be a college athlete should read This Book…”
- Ryan Spilborghs, former Major League Baseball player
“This Book… is exactly what international students need to thrive in American universities.”
- Nomvula Mbambo, Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls ’12, Brown University ’17
“A tremendous, on-the-ground application of the science of learning that entertains and inspires.”
- Ulrich Boser, Author of Learn Better
“Paul Rivas takes research about how people learn and translates it into effective practices that students can implement and use to succeed in their classes.”
- Stephen L. Chew, Samford University Psychology Professor and Chair
“Life lasts a lot longer than football. NFL hopefuls with superior study skills have more time to work on their game in the short term and more time to develop life skills for the long term.”
- Jamall Broussard, former NFL player
“Building good time management habits when it comes to your schoolwork and sport leads to accountability, which determines who can and cannot get it done when it’s time to perform!”
- Orlando Johnson, former NBA player
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The problem is that colleges are not transparent about their students’ academic lives, so families don’t know what their students should experience or accomplish in college.
- This Book… is part college insider tell-all memoir and part study skills manual. It’s brutally honest, relatable, and entirely free of jargon.
- This Book… alerts parents to a huge problem in American education today – that high school doesn’t prepare students to thrive in college – and offers explicit study skills solutions for the academic, financial, and mental health problems caused by this unfortunate reality.
- This Book… helps students, parents, teachers, and administrators have more rewarding experiences in schools, to the great benefit of themselves and their school communities.
- This Book… shows students how to learn more and earn better grades in less time so that they can make the most of their college investment. It shows parents what they can expect from their kids’ college experiences. It shows administrators what the schoolwork is really like at the level below or above their current professional context.
- This Book… will save every family money and even save a few students’ lives. Every parent will recognize their college-bound children in several of the chapters.
This Book Will Not Be on the Test is available pretty much everywhere from Amazon to East City Bookshop. Contact your favorite bookseller and pre-order your copy today!
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High School Is a Waste of Time and College Is a Scam…Unless You Have Study Skills
Students don’t get their money’s worth in college, and it’s costing our country big.
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High schools can’t prepare students to thrive in college because the two systems are structurally different. Even worse, colleges aren’t transparent about their students’ academic lives, so families are in the dark about what their students should even experience or accomplish in college. The tragic result is that families don’t get their money’s worth from their college investment.
“High school students are so busy jumping through all the hoops required to get into college these days that they don’t have time to figure out how to do college-level schoolwork once they get there,” says author Paul Smith Rivas in the introduction to his new book, This Book Will Not Be on the Test: The Study Skills Revolution, to be published March 13, 2019 by Rowman & Littlefield.
“This lack of study skills is going to prevent a lot of them from graduating, which is financially worse than not going to college at all,” Rivas believes. “Even if they graduate, their academic inefficiency will cost them money and valuable opportunities.”
Rivas is the director of SMITH RIVAS Study Skills & Academic Coaching, a Washington, D.C.-based academic accelerator founded in 2014 to help students earn better grades in less time. SMITH RIVAS takes research about how people learn and translates it into practical study skills that students can use to succeed in their classes.
Prior to discovering the value of study skills towards the end of a 20-year career at UC Santa Barbara, Rivas spurned Stanford for a full academic scholarship to UCSB, where he triple-majored in math, sociology, and Spanish while working 10-50 hours per week in the Athletic Communications office.
This Book Will Not Be on the Test is part on-the-ground college insider tell-all memoir and part study skills manual. Brutally honest and free of jargon, it alerts parents to a huge problem in American education today: high school is a waste of time and college isn’t much better.
The book has an astoundingly diverse list of endorsers, including bestselling author on productivity Daniel Pink, PBS NewsHour anchor Judy Woodruff, science of learning experts author Ulrich Boser and Dr. Stephen Chew, several former professional athletes, and a graduate of the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa.
Offering explicit study skills solutions for the academic, financial, and mental health problems caused by this unfortunate reality, This Book Will Not Be on the Test helps families, teachers, and administrators have more rewarding experiences in schools. Everyone will recognize their college-bound students in several of the chapters.
Request a review copy of This Book Will Not Be on the Test or an interview with the author by contacting Paul Smith Rivas directly at (202) 615-7791, paul@smithrivas.com, or smithrivas.com. Rivas is also on Twitter and Facebook @SmithRivasDC.
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