Good-bye, Old School.
Hello, Bold School!
"Logic will get you from A to B.
Imagination will take you everywhere."
Albert Einstein
The New Global Student will show you how to completely avoid the angst and expense of the traditional college admissions game. Discover the creative and strategic alternatives guaranteed to prime students for their most thrilling and fulfilling opportunities.
Praise for The New Global Student:
"Funny, innovative and meaningful, this is a how-to guide with heart." Boston Globe
"With considerable verve and tremendous insight, Maya Frost
offers a primer on how to take your education--and your life--into your own hands. The New Global Student is essential reading for any family yearning to step off the treadmill and plunge into the world."
Daniel H. Pink
Author of the New York Times bestseller,
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
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"Maya Frost’s voice is clear and crisp and her enthusiasm is infectious. The experience of living abroad, enjoying diversity, and meeting new cultures first-hand is what leads to success in the 21st century. This book lays out clearly and simply how our kids are going to be living as America’s First Global Citizens.”
John Zogby
President/CEO of Zogby International
Author of The Way We’ll Be: The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream
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"If we want our kids—and our country—to thrive in the global economy, we need to follow the excellent advice in this inspiring book."
Bill Bartmann
Award-winning philanthropist
Billionaire business coach
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"The New Global Student recognizes the truth of the American kindergarten through college education conveyor belt–-it is preparing children for the last century's economy. Fortunately, the Frost family has blazed a trail for crafting a 21st-century education that is personalized, global, non-traditional, relevant and affordable. Parents owe it to their children to read this book."
Bob Compton
Venture capitalist
Executive producer of the documentary, "Two Million Minutes: A Global Examination" __________________________________________________
"The globalization of higher education is shaping a new borderless innovation economy in which talent, opportunities and resources can come from anywhere. The New Global Student is a timely manual for those with the foresight to ride these waves of change and opportunity."
Dr. John Kao, aka "Mr. Creativity"
Chairman, Institute for Large Scale Innovation
Author of Innovation Nation: How America is Losing Its Innovation Edge, Why It Matters, and What We Can Do to Get It Back
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"Frost's book serves as a refreshing antidote to the uninspired, expensive, and challenge-averse educational offerings of the day. Never have students and parents needed its bold, possibility-affirming message more than now.”
Bill Farren Founder
Education For Well-being
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“Some books inspire, some inform, others convince or rouse the reader to action. The New Global Student does all this while being funny, smart, and a joy to read. In the midst of the whirlwind of stress and expectation that surrounds parents and children as college approaches, Maya Frost’s voice whispers: There is another way."
Dale McGowan
Author/editor of Parenting Beyond Belief and Raising Freethinkers
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"Maya Frost is like Dr. Spock for a new generation of paranoid parents. This irrepressible book blows open doors and gets you moving in a whole new direction. Truly a lifesaver."
Karen Maezen Miller
Author of Momma Zen: Walking the Crooked Path of Motherhood
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"The New Global Student offers an adventurous, grab-life-by-the-collar alternative to the traditional teenage rat race. Frost's lively prose and the students' eye-opening testimonials make this unorthodox guide a brisk and pleasurable read."
Dan Brown
Author of The Great Expectations School:
A Rookie Year in the New Blackboard Jungle
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"Thank God for Maya Frost! The New Global Student should be on every parent's reading list, it's so refreshing and is packed with information. It's a road map for families who don't accept the status quo."
Michelle Lamar
Entertainment Editor, CafeMom
Author of The White Trash Mom Handbook
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"Depressed about college applications and costs? The New Global Student will lift your spirits. It's smart, practical and fun. I guarantee it will make a difference."
Peter Benson, PhD
President, Search Institute
Author of Sparks: How Parents Can Help Ignite the Hidden Strengths of Teenagers
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"Maya Frost may sound like a wacky mom who yanked her family off somewhere south of the border. But once you read her engaging, witty and above all practical book, you realize: She's you--if you only took a step back and considered: what kind of life would really help my kids, my bank account and my family's future? Oh--and also be a lot of fun? Her prescription is as doable as it is exciting: Get more out of life, see more of the world and to hell with senior prom."
Lenore Skenazy
Author of Free-Range Kids: Giving Our Children the Freedom We Had Without Going Nuts with Worry
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"Get your hands on Maya Frost's The New Global Student. It will open your eyes, get your heart pounding and your mind racing, and maybe set you off on the adventure of a lifetime."
Eric Maisel
Author of Creativity for Life and Coaching the Artist Within
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"This book is chock-full of fresh ideas."
Peg Tyre
Author of The Trouble With Boys: A Surprising Report Card On Our Sons, Their Problems at School and What Parents & Educators Must Do
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"With wit and wisdom, Maya Frost gives us a refreshing look at opportunities unknown to many of us. She offers a bold new way to help our kids discover their passions, develop their talents, and become successful leaders in our ever-changing global economy."
Jim Fay
Co-founder
Love and Logic Institute, Inc.
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"A terrific resource. Maya Frost firmly validates the choice to give children a chance to experience life in another culture."
Robin Pascoe
Author of Raising Global Nomads: Parenting Abroad in an On-Demand World
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“Maya Frost's unconventional approach to international education got me thinking about new avenues, particularly to address my own teenage daughters' interests. As I read The New Global Student. I found myself sharing its concepts with other parents whose children would like to pursue non-traditional paths for learning about the world and engaging in it.”
Homa Sabet Tavangar
Author of Growing Up Global: Raising Children to Be At Home in the World (coming in September)
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