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The First Generation Student Experience
Stylus Publishing 2010; US$ 23.99Given that first-generation students comprise over 40% of incoming freshmen, increasing their retention and graduation rates can dramatically increase an institutions overall retention and graduation rates. This book provides administrators with a plan of action to create the awareness necessary for meaningful long-term change, sets out a campus... more...
The Children of London
Institute of Education Press 2012; US$ 33.00This book charts for the first time the development of the school attendance service and the Care Committees, a system of volunteers providing poor children with school dinners, clothing and medical care. more...
College Students in the United States
Wiley 2012; US$ 45.00College Students in the United States accounts for contemporary and anticipated student demographics and enrollment patterns, a wide variety of campus environments and a range of outcomes including learning, development, and achievement. Throughout the book, the differing experiences, needs, and outcome of students across the range of “traditional”... more...
Staying or Leaving the Course
NIACE 2003; US$ 22.95This book explores the continuing challenges of retention and non-completion rates in further and higher education and the implications of having an expanding and more diverse student population. more...
Understanding and Reducing College Student Departure
Wiley 2011; US$ 29.00Student departure is a long-standing problem to colleges and universities. Approximately 45 percent of students enrolled in two-year colleges depart during their first year, and approximately one out of four students departs from a four-year college or university. The authors advance a serious revision of Tinto's popular interactionalist theory to... more...
Increasing Persistence
Wiley 2012; US$ 50.00What really works in student retention? Increasing Persistence offers a compendium on college student persistence that bridges the gaps between theory, research, and successful practice. Anchored by ACT, Inc.’s 2010 What Works in Student Retention survey of 1,100 colleges and universities, which provides insights on the causes of attrition... more...
Truancy and Schools
Taylor and Francis 1999; US$ 63.95At present about one million pupils truant from their schools on a daily basis and this book examines why they do it. The numerous reasons for truanting discussed are: * disadvantageous home backgrounds * problems with settling in socially at school * poor performance in school * experiencing bullying in school * not coping with the transition... more...
Tackling Truancy in Schools
Taylor and Francis 1999; US$ 128.95Tackling Truancy in Schools is an up-to-date comprehensive text on the subject of truancy. It synthesises and brings together in a practical way recent knowledge and ideas on truants and truancy. more...
Understanding School Refusal
Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2007; US$ 34.95School refusal is a crippling condition in which children experience extreme anxiety or panic attacks when faced with everyday school life. This book aims to explore, raise awareness of the problem and provide plans and strategies for education, health and social care professionals for identifying and addressing this problem more...
Matrona Docta
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 41.95Matrona Docta presents a unique study of the education of upper-class women in Roman society in the central period of Roman history, from the second century BC to AD 235. Emily A. Hemelrijk reconstructs women's opportunities to acquire an education, the impediments they faced, the level of education they could reach and the judgement on educated... more...









