ow in its fourth edition, Admission Matters is an excellent overview of the college admissions process by Sally P. Springer, Jon Reider, and Joyce Vining Morgan. Keep in mind: I literally grew up [...]
he problem with higher education today is that colleges are not transparent about their students’ academic lives, so families don’t know what their students should experience or accomplish in [...]
reviously, we’ve recommended books that introduce you to the college admissions process, reveal all the (legal) dirty tricks that the privileged use to game the system, and help you write great [...]
egardless of how you feel about screen time, The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media & Real Life by Anya Kamenetz will convince you that the effects screen time has [...]
love it when highly-regarded books bring attention to things I’ve been teaching my study skills students for years. Learn Better, Make it Stick, and Smart but Stuck are three great examples, and [...]
here are two reasons to read, When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing, by Daniel Pink: one is that you want to work more efficiently, and the other is that you’re curious to know where – [...]
re you familiar with the idea of threshold concepts? The great Don Lubach just introduced me to them. They’re the crucial ideas that totally change the way you think about the field you’re [...]
id you know you can scan documents on your phone using Notes (iOS) or Google Drive?! Holy moly, the amount of time that knowing that five years ago would have saved me! It’s too bad my phone [...]
here’s a famous Spanish aphorism from 1647 by Baltasar Gracián that goes, “Lo bueno, si breve, dos veces bueno.” It means, “Good stuff, if short, is twice as good,” and it explains why Stairway [...]
learning specialist I really like gave me this book as a gift, with the inscription, “The book I was waiting for for 30 years!” That’s awfully high praise coming from a lady who famously (and [...]