education-economics

This book has the annoying habit of presenting opinion as fact. It's a required textbook for "Real Estate Practice" in some classes in California, but if you are just looking for an informational book on California Real Estate outside of the classroom, I would recommend a Nolo Press book instead.

Avoid this book as if it is a chronic disease. I am reviewing the 1995 edition 1st edition, but I do not see how the 2nd edition can be much better. Do you ever remember in school being asked for an assignment where you have a minumum of say 500 words for the work? Well, this book brings back the memories of my schooling, trying to hit 500 words and I am finished at 300, so I go back adding words to lengthen the work when it really only needed 300 words to get my thesis conveyed. My advice is to consult the Occupational Outlook Handbook at your local library, it is dry but it gives better statistics and info. This work suggested no night careers I would be interested in, the interviews are not useful and this book could really be conveyed in much less space if all the filler and obvious information meant to fill space was cut out, I cannot help but speculate this author had a page limit imposed by her publisher!

Although the book is well planned, the information is dated and limited. Save yourself $8.00 and obtain current in-depth information for free on-line at numerous financial sites.

Swami Vivekananda sevashram is small social service organisation for poor people who need basic amenities like food, cloth, education, health and rights for their livelihood. For that we some voluntary women working under the leadership of Mrs.Ponnammal who was the daughter of a physically handicapped beggar belongs to Thanjavur in Tamilnadu, India. Her husband is leprosy patient. The poor and affected by HIV/AIDS patients are members in the organisation.

SVS is a registered non-profit secular organization have been concentrating on rural,tribal poor and down trodden for their development in all prospectives such as socio-economic, health & education since its inception. The status of the target are low as compared to local and national level. To bring about a change in the status a continuous intervention us required for some more time. Presently ,SVS concentrating on prevention and control of communicable diseases, crèche maintanance , tribal economic development through sustainable agricultural practices, promoting sound health practices and hygienic environment, Women self help Groups formation and maintanance, thrift, small savings & micro credits etc.

SVS with its very limited external funding could not achive the desired results at optimum level. SVS could understood that your esteemed organization can extend its valuable supports and resources towards the development of rural and tribals. More importantly, we understood that you have published a range of guides and funding directories, particularly,"Grants from Trust-Grants from companies, Grants from individuals seeking Grant Aid." Which will enable us to mobilize resourses and supports from foreign countries magnanimous people. SVS possess FCRA also and exempted from Income Tax.

We sincerely request you to kindly send us the above mentioned guides and directories and provide us the opportunity to have partnership with you.

Looking forward to hear from you the positive reply in this regard at your earliest.
Thank you very much for your kind co-operation and guidance.

Yours faithfully
Mrs Ponnammal

During my freshmen year at the University of Washington, I was forced to read this book(1st edition). It was the most worthless use of my time and money. It is full of suggestions such as "Join a student club to meet people" and "Ask your professor for help". The best part of the book was selling it back to the bookstore for $1.

A more completely worthless book I have never seen. A very thin book to begin with, it spends a lot of time selling you on the idea of PE certification, and gives a lot of lame advice about taking the tests ("bring a thermos of milk or hot chocolate"- I am not making this up!). Not a single sample or review question appears here. Do yourself a big favor- call your state board of registration in engineering if you are interested in taking the PE exams, and they will tell you everything in this book and more for free.

I'm glad I pinched my penny and bought this book used at a major discount, because it was a major disappointment. I could have written the book. Common sense ideas on how to save money, but nothing I didn't already know.

This book is an overly basic 'how to start a business' primer, which barely mentions the seminar business or promoting seminars, and offers NO information that wouldn't apply to, say, starting a car wash or a hot dog stand. I'm a marketing consultant and seminar leader/promoter, and I was looking for a book to recommend to my clients for their own promotional seminars. This book is so devoid of information that it's useless.

This was little more than a couple of scanned pages from Business Week's review. All of the information could have been had free via the internet. Not at all what I expected.

Like Robert Zemsky at Penn, William Massey at Stanford, and Diane Oblinger and Anne-Lee Verville ("What Business Wants from Higher Education"), Lenington views higher education as simply one more business, an enterprise from which to squeeze dollars. Colleges and universities are inefficient because, like state and federal agencies, they are not run as for-profit entities. "To improve management of resources and realign the industry," we must start thinking of students as customers, degrees as products, and the public as "stakeholders." Faculty? They are simply labor and thus an expense to be contained. As for the intellectual independence insured by tenure, it is does not make economic sense. "Efficiency" and the bottom line dictate the use of academic minimum-wage earners (part-time, adjunct faculty)--disposable serfs who will do what they are told. And, of course, higher education must become more competitive. But in pushing the higher-education-as-business model, Lenington is advancing what logicians call a false analogy. For one thing, students are both customers and products, a confusion that exists nowhere in the business world. For another, even at private schools our students are heavily subsidized and thus are not paying their full way (and, of course, they suffer from a deficiency called ignorance that by its very nature means that they are not in a position to know what they need). For yet another, education is largely a cooperative, not a competitive "enterprise." That is why scholars eagerly share their findings in disciplinary journals and at regional and national conferences. For Stanford to become a greater university, Berkeley need not deteriorate. In fact, the findings of a Stanford prof can enhance instruction at Berkeley, and vice-versa. Like other advocates of the business model, Lenington invokes an idealized image of corporate behavior. What he does not acknowledge is the golden rule of business: To give customers as little as they are willing to accept in exchange for as much as they are willing to pay. If we run higher education like a business, then, we must inevitably calculate how to teach our students as little as we can for as much tuition as we can extort. The competitive pressure to produce better graduates? By the standards of business, Stanford could outcompete Berkeley by educating its students half as well for a third of the cost. As the McDonald's success story illustrates, there is more money in fast-food joints than in 4-star restaurants. Thirty years ago a book like this would have evoked laughter or outrage, but no one would have taken it as a serious proposal. Now, in an era when many upper-echelon administrators have degenerated into résumé-stuffers looking for their next career move, they no longer identify their interests with those of faculty and thus find the business model mighty attractive. After all, it offers campus CEO's the prospect of greater power and more generous compensation packages. As for the long-term health of American education, that is not an issue. The business model is all about immediate, short-term profit.