What High School Didn't Teach Me is a recent graduate’s perspective on how high school is killing creativity by forcing students to memorize factoids, rather than inspiring them to pursue creative endeavors and teaching them how to problem solve. The author—Rajat Bhageria—describes how too many high school students today focus all of their efforts on maintaining high grades, rather than on developing intrinsic motivation for their passions. Bhageria addresses many major subjects in education … [Read more...] about What High School Didn’t Teach Me: A Recent Graduate’s Perspective on How High School is Killing Creativity by Rajat Bhageria
Interview with Author – Rajat Bhageria
About Rajat Bhageria: Rajat Bhageria is an 18 year old creator, doer, and entrepreneur. Passionate about education reform, he has created a social network for writers to share their work called CafeMocha.org, and has written his first book What High School Didn't Teach Me. Additionally, Rajat has created a Google Glass app that tells visually impaired persons what they are looking at (ThirdEyeGlass.com). He attends UPenn. Find more at RajatBhageria.com and @RajatBhageria.com. What inspires … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Rajat Bhageria
True Blue Forever by Joyce Scarbrough
"Someday, she'll be my girl." At the fifth grade honors program, three eleven-year-old boys are captivated by a brilliant little red-haired girl named Jeana Russell as she recites the poem she wrote. They know this girl is special, and each boy secretly vows to win her heart. As these four unconventional teenagers grow up together on the Alabama Gulf Coast in the late 1970s, they are bound to each other by relationships as volatile as they are complex. Which boy will end up breaking Jeana's … [Read more...] about True Blue Forever by Joyce Scarbrough
How to Get Ainsley Bishop to Fall in Love with You by T.M. Franklin @TM_Franklin
This book is bargain priced from 06/30/2014 until 07/07/2014 Seventeen-year-old Oliver Wendell Holmes (Yes, his parents are just that peculiar, but his brother’s name is Sherlock, so it could have been worse) knows that he’s different. He’s quirky, awkward, and he’s okay with that. Oliver also likes making lists—meticulous procedures for achieving his goals, step-by-step. Whether it’s “How to Get an A in Chemistry” or “How to Get Accepted to MIT,” he has a process, and it’s worked for him so … [Read more...] about How to Get Ainsley Bishop to Fall in Love with You by T.M. Franklin @TM_Franklin
I’m a Teenager Now by Velyn Cooper @VelynCooper
Targeted Age Group: Teens Genre: Inspirational Your Story: … [Read more...] about I’m a Teenager Now by Velyn Cooper @VelynCooper
