College Knowledge: What It Really Takes for Students to Succeed and What We Can Do to Get Them Ready

by David T. Conley

Book Overview

Although more and more students have the test scores and transcripts to get into college, far too many are struggling once they get there. These students are surprised to find that college coursework... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0787973971
• ISBN13: 9780787973971
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.2" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

College Knowledge

This was an interesting book & it arrived quickly! It reads fairly easily and is chock full of important information for parents, teachers and guidance counsellors!

A Guide to Teachers and to the College Bound

This book really has two goals. It's original and main intent is aimed at high school teachers who are preparing students for college. In this vein it addresses what should be tought to students and how they should be taught. The second goal is how to take whatever high school education a young person has and from this foundation prepare the student for what college is going to be like. Unfortunately the taking of the college preparatory curriculum in most high schools does a fairly poor job of actually preparing students for surviving in the college environment. Perhaps the knowledge the student has in math, english, or whatever is adequate. But there is still the lack of involvement on the teachers part, particularly in the large survey type classes of a hundred plus students with a TA doing the teaching. Combine this with the faster pace, the increased requirements for homework, and the outside influences away from home and the potential is there for significant problems. This book is a more basic guide than many of the college review type books that merely list some attributes of dozens of colleges. This is a guide on how to succeed rather than how to pick a college.