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The future looks bleak for today's college graduates: 53 percent of Millennials are jobless or underemployed after graduating college, and 36 percent have moved back in with their parents. College tuition has tripled in the last decade, debt at graduation has risen to a full year's salary, and more graduates...

Jenny Rogers provides all the practical advice you need on presenting yourself well in job interviews as you prove you are in the business of achieving success.

Contrary to what students, and society, are conditioned to think, obtaining a college degree does not automatically result in a job, let alone a dream career. In the last year, alone, half of college graduates are either jobless or underemployed in positions that don’t fully use their skills and...

A trenchant and wide-ranging look at this alarming national trend, Disrupting the School-to-Prison Pipeline is unsparing in its account of the problem while pointing in the direction of meaningful and much-needed reforms. The “school-to-prison pipeline” has received much attention in the...

The school-to-prison pipeline is a national concern, from the federal to local governments, and a leading topic in conversations in the field of urban education and juvenile justice. From Education to Incarceration: Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline is a ground-breaking book that exposes the...

This is the definitive introduction to coaching and mentoring, written by an experienced and multidisciplinary team. Taking you all the way through from the emerging theory to informed practice, the book covers:   ·         Skills, purposes and outcomes of coaching and mentoring...

This study has implications for policy making to augment food security of village households, particularly the vulnerable households. The findings suggest that health and skill of poor people should be enhanced to make them capable to secure the food. Similarly, villages should be selectively integrated...

In 2010, college junior Stephen Balaban moved to Beijing, China for an internship at a business incubator. He returned eight months later with amazing stories, helpful tips and a desire to share his story. He's one of the many American expatriates who have discovered that China with its fast growing...

This volume problematizes different facets of management education in India---pedagogy, curricula, and disciplinary and institutional practices---from the perspective of the Global South. The essays in this volume bring out the institutional challenges of crafting a relevant academic programme that...

Have you ever develop a product just to find out that no one wants it? Have you read all these wonderful concepts about how to develop a product, just to find out that none of these is applicable to your case? If yes, you are one of the million people wanted to start a business based on a brilliant...

He Shoots! He Scores! Units of Study make up a unique comprehensive program that promotes awareness and understanding of topics related to mental wellness through existing curricular expectations. It reflects Canadian standards in education and it uses evidence-based material (the Iris the Dragon...

China is experiencing an unprecedented phenomenon: breakneck industrialization on a scale and at a pace not seen before. It is trying to achieve in just a few decades what Western nations took more than a century to do. The arrival in the country’s cities of tens of millions of rural dwellers, at...

This volume seeks to examine the skills development agenda for youth by exploring two key questions for sustainable livelihoods: What are the skills needed for employability in developing countries, especially in Africa and Asia?  And, what skills are currently possessed by students and secondary...

Profound differences in theory are never gratuitous or invented. They grow out of conflicting elements in a genuine problem--a problem which is genuine just because the elements, taken as they stand, are conflicting. Any significant problem involves conditions that for the moment contradict each other....