Maya Frost - The New Global Student: Skip the SAT, Save Thousands on Tuition, and Get a Truly International Education

P RAISE FOR The New Global Student

If we want our kidsand our countryto thrive in the global economy, we need to follow the excellent advice in this inspiring book.

Bill Bartmann, Billionaire Business Coach

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 and Educators Must Do

The New Global Student recognizes the truth of the American kindergarten through college education conveyor beltit is preparing children for the last centurys economy. This inspiring guide shows the way to prepare students for full, satisfying, and self-directed lives. Parents owe it to their children to read this book.

Bob Compton, venture capitalist and
executive producer of the documentary
Two Million Minutes: A Global Examination

The New Global Student offers an adventurous, grab-life-by-the-collar alternative to the traditional teenage rat race. Frosts 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

Depressed about college applications and costs? The New Global Student will lift your spirits. Its smart, practical, and fun. I guarantee it will make a difference.

Peter Benson, Ph.D., author of Sparks:
How Parents Can Help Ignite the Hidden Strengths of Teenagers

Maya Frost may sound like a wacky mom who yanked her family somewhere south of the border. But once you read her engaging, witty, and, above all, practical book, you realize: Shes you if
you only took a step back and considered what kind of life would really help my kids, my bank account, and my familys future?

Lenore Skenazy, author of Free-Range Kids:
Giving Our Children the Freedom We Had Without
Going Nuts with Worry

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 provides a timely manual for those with the foresight to ride these waves of change and opportunity.

John Kao, author of Innovation Nation and chairman
of the Institute for Large Scale Innovation

Frosts 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 of Education for Well-being

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 Frosts voice whispers: There is another way.

Dale McGowan, editor of Parenting Beyond Belief
and coauthor of Raising Freethinkers

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

Get your hands on Maya Frosts 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

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, cofounder of Love and Logic Institute, Inc.

A terrific resource Maya Frost firmly validates a parents choice to give their children a chance to experience life in another culture.

Robin Pascoe, author of Raising Global Nomads:
Parenting Abroad in an On-Demand World

Thank God for Maya Frost! The New Global Student should be on every parents reading list, its so refreshing and is packed with information. Its a road map for families who dont accept the status quo.

Michelle Lamar, author and entertainment
editor for CafeMom

Maya Frosts unconventional approach to international education got me thinking about new avenuesparticularly 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 nontraditional 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

For my big brother Dennis
gifted teacher, brilliant linguist, and passionate global citizen.
After nearly twenty years, I still feel your presence every day
and see your spark in the four nieces you never had a chance
to meet.
Paz, mi hermano.

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