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Get the Summary of Nikole Hannah-Jones's The 1619 Project in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Nikole Hannah-Jones's "The 1619 Project" examines the enduring legacy of Black Americans' contributions to the nation, juxtaposed with the systemic racism they have faced. The book begins with Hannah-Jones's reflection on her father's patriotism, despite the discrimination he faced as a descendant of sharecroppers in an...
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Get the Summary of Kevin Horsley's Unlimited Memory in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In Unlimited Memory, you'll learn how the world's best memory masters get themselves to concentrate at will, anytime they want. When you can easily focus and concentrate on the task at hand, and store and recall useful information, you can easily double your productivity and eliminate wasted time, stress...
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Get the Summary of Karen Kelsky's The Professor Is In in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Each year tens of thousands of students will, after years of hard work and enormous amounts of money, earn their Ph.D. And each year only a small percentage of them will land a job that justifies and rewards their investment. For every comfortably tenured professor or well-paid former academic, there...
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#1 I, too, went to Australia as an exchange student. I didn't expect to come back with much more than a good tan and a backpack full of good memories. Instead, I came back with a boyfriend from rural Indiana.
#2 I noticed that, parallel with the hard-core outdoor culture, there were forces at work in American society that seemed to create a divide between humans and...
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#1 The ability to delay gratification is one of the most important skills in life, and it is learned through experience. It is used by everyone, everywhere, all the time. The survival of a species depends on its quality and the better animals or tribes master it, the more dominant they become over others.
#2 Communication is like an engine oil that makes your life run...
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Get the Summary of Matthew Dicks & Dan Kennedy's ‘Storyworthy’ in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire...
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Get the Summary of Wolfram Rollett's Student Feedback on Teaching in Schools in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
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This open access book provides a comprehensive and informative overview of the current state of research about student perceptions of and student feedback on teaching. After presentation of a new student feedback process model, evidence concerning the validity and reliability...
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Get the Summary of Jo Boaler's Limitless Mind in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: From the moment we enter school as children, we are made to feel as if our brains are fixed entities, capable of learning certain things and not others, influenced exclusively by genetics. This notion follows us into adulthood, where we tend to simply accept these established beliefs about our skillsets (i.e....
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#1 When you read, you should have a purpose. Purpose helps you stay focused on the material, and it helps you absorb it faster. When you read with a purpose, you begin to see the material everywhere.
#2 To help you focus on what you want to get out of a certain piece of information, ask yourself what you want to get out of it and why you are reading it. The clearer...
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Get the Summary of Thomas L Friedman's The World Is Flat 3.0 in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Award-winning author Thomas L. Friedman, imagines himself a modern-day Columbus, exploring a new world created by a global economy. He travels from Bangalore to Bentonville, interviewing key figures in the rise of globalization, outsourcing, offshoring, and supply chain management.
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Get the Summary of Ron Lieber's The Price You Pay for College in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Sending a teenager to a flagship state university for four years of on-campus living costs more than $100,000 in many parts of the United States. Meanwhile, many families of freshmen attending selective private colleges will spend triple - over $300,000. With the same passion, smarts, and...
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#1 Tyshaun McPhatter, age nine, had struggled with his emotions for months. He was a troublemaker, and his teachers and mother were always worried about him. But one day, he just lost it and started to cry.
#2 Ava, who is white, was a Daisy Scout and wanted to become a cheerleader. She lived in the town of Townville, which was known for its abundance of churches and...
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#1 I was a clueless student who never studied for exams and instead relied on rote memorization. But when I began teaching, I saw that my students were constantly in a fog of confusion, and I was able to help them understand the logic of the discipline and become motivated to spend time mastering the material themselves.
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#1 Differentiating instruction means shaking up what goes on in the classroom so that students have multiple options for absorbing information, making sense of ideas, and expressing what they've learned. In other words, a differentiated classroom provides different avenues for acquiring content, processing or making sense of ideas, and developing products.
#2 While differentiated...
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#1 A god to serve does not necessarily mean the God who is supposed to have created the world and whose moral commandments are presented in sacred texts. In the Western world, beginning in the thirteenth century, God was sufficient justification for the founding of institutions of learning.
#2 We cannot do without gods. We are the god-making species. Our genius lies...
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#1 On Halloween 2008, a computer scientist named Satoshi Nakamoto published a whitepaper introducing Bitcoin, a digital currency that allows people to exchange money without going through a bank or credit card processor.
#2 Money has traditionally been held in two forms: physical items like cash or gold pieces or having a trusted institution like a bank or chieftain track how much...
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Get the Summary of Donald Yacovone's Teaching White Supremacy in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Teaching White Supremacy" by Donald Yacovone delves into the historical narrative of white supremacist ideology as a pervasive force in American culture, particularly within the education system. The book examines how influential figures, including educators, religious leaders, and literary icons, perpetuated the myth...
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#1 Empress Elena Glinskaya, along with court advisors, was tasked with raising and nurturing Ivan the Terrible, the young emperor. However, when Elena died in 1538, Ivan was left alone with his court officials. He felt more like a prisoner than a prince.
#2 The fire of 1547, which destroyed much of Moscow, was a turning point in Ivan's life. He was forced to flee the...
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#1 The five elements of warfare are: method, discipline, the commander, the army, and military expenditure. The five heads should be familiar to every general. He who knows them will be victorious.
#2 The general who wins a battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses a battle makes few calculations beforehand. Thus,...
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#1 To break the cycle of rejection, you must be completely honest with yourself. Aligning your thoughts and ideals with the reality of the situation makes less resistance for yourself.
#2 When you start thinking long-term and supporting those who are your real friends, you can stop pretending to be popular and focus on being yourself.
#3 The power of a rejection is...
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