Books with title The College Fear Factor

Rebecca D. Cox draws on five years of interviews and observations at community colleges, where she shows how students and their instructors misunderstand and ultimately fail one another, despite good intentions. Eye-opening even for experienced faculty and administrators, The College Fear Factor reveals how the traditional college culture can actually pose obstacles to students' success, and suggests strategies for effectively explaining academic expectations.

Your worst fear ... Tommy Payne is 12. He looks 9 and thinks like 20. He lives in a third floor apartment of a decrepit old building. He and his three best friends have banded together as The Loyal and Adventurous Knights of the Air Shaft. The LAKOTAS -- 'kotas for short. He and his friends -- the 'kotas -- are enjoing summer. A kid's summer seems like a year and the 'kotas are making the most of every second. They have just about convinced themselves that all of that "dream business" was just that -- a dreamBut as the days get shorter and Halloween approaches, there are signs that all is not as it should be. In the midst of a raucous sleepover, they awake in the Fear Factory. This factory doesn't manufacture bikes or cell phones. It has only one product -- FEAR. Fear can bring out the worst in us. Could you choose between your worst fear and your best friends? This could be the end of everything.

Your worst fear ... Tommy Payne is 12. He looks 9 and thinks like 20. He lives in a third floor apartment of a decrepit old building. He and his three best friends have banded together as The Loyal and Adventurous Knights of the Air Shaft. The LAKOTAS -- 'kotas for short. He and his friends -- the 'kotas -- are enjoing summer. A kid's summer seems like a year and the 'kotas are making the most of every second. They have just about convinced themselves that all of that "dream business" was just that -- a dreamBut as the days get shorter and Halloween approaches, there are signs that all is not as it should be. In the midst of a raucous sleepover, they awake in the Fear Factory. This factory doesn't manufacture bikes or cell phones. It has only one product -- FEAR. Fear can bring out the worst in us. Could you choose between your worst fear and your best friends? This could be the end of everything.