This is the 2010 Edition and includes information about the IB program that MAY BE OUT OF DATE and INACCURATE. If you are entering the IB this year, please DO NOT PURCHASE THIS EDITION and consider purchasing the 2011 Edition of Survive the IB! If you are a SECOND YEAR IB student that will graduate after May 2012, than this edition is accurate for your courses. Survive the IB is a complete guide to the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program for IB students and parents. Learn the details of the IB Diploma Program as well as how to master the most important components of your IB courses and exams. Survive the IB was written for IB students by IB students and remains one of best resources to navigating the IB Diploma Program. This is the old edition of Survive the IB It is up to date for students who entered the IB Diploma Program in the 2010-2011 school year with first exams in May 2011. If you are entering your first year in the IB Diploma Program in Fall 2011, please consider purchasing the new 2011 Edition of Survive the IB instead as it is accurate for the courses that you will be taking.

In this widely popular International Baccalaureate survival guide, three high-scoring IB alumni explain the secrets behind their success in the Diploma Program and describe how to achieve the maximum possible points with the minimum possible hassle. This guide is the second edition of the bestselling book THE SECRET ART OF PASSING THE IB DIPLOMA - WHY 1 OUT 4 STUDETS FAIL + HOW TO AVOID BEING ONE OF THEM (4.5/5 rating on Amazon from 55 reviews; 4.6/5 rating on Goodreads from 65 reviews). In this updated version, two recent alumni (both of whom scored the maximum 45 points in IB examinations) join IB guru Alexander Zouev in sharing more secrets to succeeding in the rigorous academic program. This book is aimed at all students currently struggling in the IB Diploma program. Across 20 chapters, readers will uncover advice that will allow them to gain 35+ points with relative ease. This book is filled with practical hints, tips, and suggestions that most IB students are not aware of.

From Ancient Greece to the present day, Trivium 21c explores whether a contemporary trivium (Grammar, Dialectic, and Rhetoric) can unite progressive and traditionalist institutions, teachers, politicians and parents in the common pursuit of providing a great education for our children in the 21st century. Education policy and practice is a battleground. Traditionalists argue for the teaching of a privileged type of hard knowledge and deride soft skills. Progressives deride learning about great works of the past preferring '21c skills' (21st century skills) such as creativity and critical thinking. Whilst looking for a school for his daughter, the author became frustrated by schools' inability to value knowledge, as well as creativity, foster discipline alongside free-thinking, and value citizenship alongside independent learning. Drawing from his work as a creative teacher, Robinson finds inspiration in the Arts and the need to nurture learners with the ability to deal with the uncertainties of our age. Named one of Book Authority's best education books of all time.

Due to the unprecedented success of his previous IB guidebook, 45 Tips, Tricks, and Secrets for the Successful International Baccalaureate [IB] Student, Alexander Zouev has returned to compile a book that reveals more secrets to succeeding in the rigorous academic program. This is a book aimed at students struggling in the IB Diploma program who wish to maximise their potential with minimal hassle. In this to-the-point manual, students will uncover all of the secrets that will allow them to gain 35+ points with relative ease. This book is filled with practical hints, tips, and suggestions that most IB students ignore.

With the intensification of globalization, there is a growing consensus that «international education has come of age». This book examines how the changing conditions of the present have given rise to an altered set of meanings and uses for international education, using the International Baccalaureate (IB) as its focal point. Currently adopted in over 2,500 private and state-run schools in 134 countries around the world, the IB has far surpassed the expectations of its founders, who struggled under considerable challenges in the 1960s to develop an internationally recognized diploma for university entrance. From its beginnings to its current prominence, the history of the IB richly illuminates the shifting meanings, uses, challenges, and progressive openings of international education in a global age. Documenting the ideals, goals, and complications faced by the IB movement, this book will be relevant to individuals interested in the IB in particular, as well as to those interested in the broader areas of global studies, progressive pedagogy, educational change, and globalization.

“Why aren’t you using LTM EBITDA for credit metrics?” asked the managing director who sat across from me, his widow’s peak clearly visible as he inspected the sheet in front of him. His spacious office looked out onto New York Harbor. “Bust,” said the vice president, who was a slightly younger, douchier version of Widow’s Peak. He slashed his red ballpoint pen across the sheet and flipped to the next page. “Walk me through the debt paydown and your interest rate assumptions,” continued the VP. “Pretty dovish view. Maybe the Fed knows what they’re doing after all,” said Widow’s Peak. He shot a glance at the VP. They shared a chuckle—at what, I couldn’t tell you. This question about interest rates I knew: Dovish, I thought. Doves fly south for the winter, so dovish is downwards…low interest rates— “We’re running short on time,” said Widow’s Peak. He flipped to the cover page of my presentation. “One final point—all pitch decks should have the same title.” “Since this presentation was geared towards an LBO analysis I was thinking—” “No thinking. All decks—same title—Discussion Materials.” Noted. Discussion Materials gives the reader an honest look at Wall Street from someone in the trenches. After graduating from Columbia Business School, Bill Keenan joined Deutsche Bank’s investment banking division as an associate where despotic superiors (and the blinking red light of his BlackBerry) instilled low-level terror on an hourly basis. You’ll join him in his cubicle on the 44th floor of 60 Wall Street as he scrambles to ensure floating bar charts are the correct shade of orange and all numbers are left-aligned, but whatever you do, don’t ask him what any of it means. Leaning heavily on his fellow junior bankers and the countless outsourcing resources the bank employs, he slowly develops proficiency at the job, eventually gaining traction and respect, one deal at a time, over a two-year span, ultimately cementing his legacy in the group by attaining the unattainable: placing a dinner order on Seamless one Sunday night at work from Hwa Yuan Szechuan amounting to $25.00 (tax and tip included), the bank’s maximum allowance for meals—the perfect order.