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Jones, Gai – University of Chicago Press, 2014
"The Student Actor Prepares" is a practical, interactive approach to a student actor's journey. Each chapter includes acting principles, their importance to the process, and workbook entries for emotional work, script analysis, and applications to the study of theater. Topics cover a brief history of the art of acting and how the study…
Descriptors: Acting, Theater Arts, Creativity, Reflection
Gould, Jon B. – University of Chicago Press, 2012
After years of preparation and anticipation, many students arrive at college without any real knowledge of the ins and outs of college life. They've been focused on finding the right school and have been carefully guided through the nuances of the admissions process, but too often they have little knowledge about how college will be different from…
Descriptors: College Students, Extracurricular Activities, Leisure Time, Success
Beasley, Maya A. – University of Chicago Press, 2011
Why has the large income gap between blacks and whites persisted for decades after the passage of civil rights legislation? More specifically, why do African Americans remain substantially underrepresented in the highest-paying professions, such as science, engineering, information technology, and finance? A sophisticated study of racial…
Descriptors: Civil Rights Legislation, Racial Composition, Economic Status, Disproportionate Representation
Arum, Richard; Roksa, Josipa – University of Chicago Press, 2010
In spite of soaring tuition costs, more and more students go to college every year. A bachelor's degree is now required for entry into a growing number of professions. And some parents begin planning for the expense of sending their kids to college when they're born. Almost everyone strives to go, but almost no one asks the fundamental question…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Criticism, Role of Education, Student Evaluation
Roberts, Andrew – University of Chicago Press, 2010
Each fall, thousands of eager freshmen descend on college and university campuses expecting the best education imaginable: inspiring classes taught by top-ranked professors, academic advisors who will guide them to a prestigious job or graduate school, and an environment where learning flourishes outside the classroom as much as it does in lecture…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, College Freshmen, Expectation, Higher Education
Lipson, Charles – University of Chicago Press, 2008
Each year, 700,000 students from around the world come to the United States and Canada to study. For many, the experience is as challenging as it is exciting. Far from home, they must adapt to a new culture, new university system, and in many cases, a new language. The process can be overwhelming, but as Charles Lipson's "Succeeding as an…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Holidays, School Schedules, Universities
Myers, David Gershom – University of Chicago Press, 2006
When Vladimir Nabokov was up for a chair in literature at Harvard, the linguist Roman Jakobson protested: "What's next? Shall we appoint elephants to teach zoology?" That anecdote, with which D. G. Myers begins "The Elephants Teach", perfectly frames the issues this book tackles. Myers explores more than a century of debate over how writing should…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Creative Writing, Poetry, Educational History
Breslich, Ernst R. – University of Chicago Press (UCP), 1919
This textbook is designed primarily to follow the third book of the author's series of textbooks of secondary mathematics. Therefore, it presupposes the essentials of high-school algebra, plane and solid geometry, and trigonometry. It aims to combine the work which is commonly covered in separate courses in college algebra and in analytical…
Descriptors: Two Year Colleges, College Mathematics, Textbooks, Educational History
Breslich, Ernst R. – University of Chicago Press (UCP), 1916
This textbook provides the foundation for a second-year high school mathematics course. It aims to teach "how to study" as well as the "content" of a second unit of secondary mathematics through the nature and form of the material, explicit exhibits, formulated tests of both sound and unsound reasoning, through study-helps,…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Mathematics Instruction, Study Skills, Teaching Methods
Breslich, Ernst R. – University of Chicago Press (UCP), 1916
This textbook presents the foundation for a second high-school year mathematics course. It aims to teach "how to study" as well as the "content" of a second unit of secondary mathematics through the nature and form of the material, explicit exhibits, formulated tests of both sound and unsound reasoning, through study-helps,…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Mathematics Instruction, Geometry, High School Students
Breslich, Ernst R. – University of Chicago Press (UCP), 1917
This textbook is a third-year high school mathematics course and is the third of the series of textbooks on secondary mathematics. It completes the study of high-school algebra, trigonometry, and solid geometry. The features of this course are: (1) Reviews are carried on at frequent intervals throughout the course; (2) At the end of each chapter…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Mathematics Education, Secondary School Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction
Reeve, William David; Schorling, Raleigh – University of Chicago Press (UCP), 1915
This textbook furnishes abundant material for an intelligent review of the mathematics given in a large number of high schools, and it is the hope of the authors that other teachers may find the book useful in the hands of their pupils. The first-year review is intended to cover the work ordinarily done in the first-year mathematics course of the…
Descriptors: Textbooks, High School Students, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods