Video number eleven featured the first TED Talks television program featuring many speakers on the question: “Why do so many students drop out of high school?” This program was presented by famous musician John Legend and the speakers on this issue included: Mrs. Rita Pierson, Dr. Ramsay Mussallam, Dr. Angela Lee Duckworth, Mr. Bill Gates, Dr. Geoffrey Canada, Mrs. Pearl Arredendo, and Sir Ken Robinson. Each of these speakers were given an opportunity to provide their own individual response to this question as well as providing details on what they have done as educators in order to combat the issue of large dropout rates in high schools.
There were a variety of different answers to this dilemma. For example Mrs. Rita Pierson believed that …show more content…
I noticed that some of the speakers who were educators almost subconsciously placed the blame more so on the students than on themselves (this certainly isn’t true for all of the speakers, but this applied to at least two of the speakers in my opinion). For the speakers who did not do this, they are emulating a lesson that Mrs. Stacey Beck demonstrated in “Beyond the Blackboard”. This lesson is that there is no superman coming around to deal with all of the problems, we all have to take our own initiatives if we really want to see change …show more content…
I actually found out that this movie was based on a real story that occurred in the late 1980’s. I was able to find some statistics on the dropout rates from 1990 to 2013. According to the National Center for Educational Statistics, the average dropout rate for all people of ethnicities has dropped from twelve percent to seven percent between 1990 and 2013. Hence, the overall dropout rate has dropped five percent in only twenty three years (“National Center for Educational Statistics- Fast Facts”,
There were a variety of different answers to this dilemma. For example Mrs. Rita Pierson believed that …show more content…
I noticed that some of the speakers who were educators almost subconsciously placed the blame more so on the students than on themselves (this certainly isn’t true for all of the speakers, but this applied to at least two of the speakers in my opinion). For the speakers who did not do this, they are emulating a lesson that Mrs. Stacey Beck demonstrated in “Beyond the Blackboard”. This lesson is that there is no superman coming around to deal with all of the problems, we all have to take our own initiatives if we really want to see change …show more content…
I actually found out that this movie was based on a real story that occurred in the late 1980’s. I was able to find some statistics on the dropout rates from 1990 to 2013. According to the National Center for Educational Statistics, the average dropout rate for all people of ethnicities has dropped from twelve percent to seven percent between 1990 and 2013. Hence, the overall dropout rate has dropped five percent in only twenty three years (“National Center for Educational Statistics- Fast Facts”,