Resources for Higher Education

Council for Exceptional Children

Resource Title: College Planning for Gifted Students, Second Edition, Revised
Price: $24.00 (CEC Members $16.80)
Author: Sandra L. Berger
Description: Use this step-by-step guide for discovering the right fit between student and college. Helps students examine personal goals, values, and learning styles. Describes how to figure out what a college is really like. Revised edition includes information on how to get college planning information from the Internet.

National Association of Secondary School Principals

Resource Title: How Parents and Students Can Enrich the Work of a Community of Learners
Price: $12 (members), $15 (non-members).
Author: Anne Wescott-Dodd
Description: Bulletin. February 1999.

Resource Title: Helping Students Develop Self-Motivation: A Sourcebook for Parents and Educators
Price: $9.00
Author: Donald R. Grossnickle
Description: 1989. 32 pp. Parents and educators must work together to provide opportunities for students to develop self-motivation and self-management skills. This book is a blueprint for working with students.

Resource Title: From Information to Interaction: Involving Parents in the Literacy Development of Their Adolescent
Price: $12 (members), $15 (non-members).
Author: James A. Rycik
Description: Bulletin. October 1998.

Resource Title: Creating Our Future: Parents as Partners in Education
Price: $54.95 (members), $59.95 (non-members).
Description: High School Magazine, March 1995. Establishing strong school-home partnerships, preparing students for college success, updating the secondary school business curriculum, evaluating support staff members.

Resource Title: The Cornucopia Kids -- Revised Edition
Price: $1.75 (members), $2.75 (non-members).
Author: Bruce A. Baldwin
Description: 1996, 20 pp. Baldwin expands on his popular earlier work with more common sense and thought-provoking suggestions for turning today's teenagers into productive and happy adults. A must for every parent, teacher, and principal.

Resource Title: All Kids Can Learn Toolkit
Price: $45.00
Author: Produced by the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation and Collaborative Communications Group
Description: Use this toolkit at faculty meetings, during professional development workshops, at district meetings, and with parent groups to start a dialogue about school improvement and how high standards can improve student achievement and teacher and principal performance. Includes:

(2) Schools That Learn: High Standards for Teacher and Principal Performance. A 28-minute videotape that paints a picture of what effective standards-based classrooms, instruction, and schools look like. Schools That Learn documents good practice in three diverse school districts in Texas, California, and Kentucky. The accompanying discussion guide can open up discussions among educators about how they can get all students achieving at high levels.

(3) Expecting Success: How Standards Raise Student Performance. This 14-minute videotape helps parents understand what standards really mean to their child's education and explains, through the voices of parents, commonly used terms like "standards" and "rubric." The videotape and the accompanying discussion guide are excellent tools for building the relationship between home and school.

(4) Figuring It Out: Standards-Based Reforms in Urban Middle Grades. Anne C. Lewis describes how six very different urban districts tackled standards-based reform in their middle schools. She concludes by outlining what standards based reforms need to continue.

Parent-U-Turn

Resource Title: Scholarships/Grants Available for Immigrant Students
Price: $15.00
Author: Parent-U-Turn
Description: Information of organization that looking for children of Immigrants and Afro-American students that need assisting to help first generation to attend college. Scholarships guide lists the organizations contact person, address, telephone number and requirement for the scholarships. Many of the scholarships organizations doesn't require students to have a social security.