Maya Frost has taught thousands of people how to pay attention. Her signature eyes-wide-open approach to everyday awareness has been featured in media outlets around the world, from MSNBC.com to the Italian version of Elle. To learn about her work teaching parents, business leaders and community activists how to get calm, clear and creative, visit http://www.Real-WorldMindfulness.com

Maya is the author of The New Global Student: Skip the SAT, Save Thousands on Tuition, and Get a Truly International Education, published by Random House last May. It's based on her family's story--in 2005, she and her husband sold everything and moved abroad. Tricky part: they had four teenage daughters at the time! While living abroad and ushering their girls through high school and into US/Canadian colleges, the Frosts stumbled upon a number of affordable, accessible and stunningly advantageous strategies that ANY US student can use to leapfrog over those on the traditional test-mania track.

Frazzled parents will heave a sigh of relieve after reading this conspiratorial how-to guide and laugh out loud at the lunacy of the current college-prep mindset. Get ready to meet the new breed of American global students--those who are celebrating the creative low-cost options that catapult them into the global economy at 20 with a red-hot college diploma, fluency in a foreign language (or two), sizzling 21st-century skills, outrageously relevant experience, a blazing sense of direction, big-grin enthusiasm and NO DEBT.

Good-bye, Old School. Hello, Bold School!

To read reviews of the book and learn more about Maya's work in education, mindfulness and creativity, visit http://www.MayaFrost.com