American history professor, Patrick Allitt, in the essay, “Should Undergraduates Specialize?” published by the Chronicle of Higher Education, argues that the American education system differs greatly from the British system in order to advocate for reform in America. Allitt supports his assertion by comparing his daughter, Frances, experience in college in America to his in Britain. The author’s overall purpose was to describe the differences between his college experience and how the average American will experience higher education. He describes his professor and tutors as people that “ didn’t show any delicate concern for our feelings.” Allitt employed an educated tone when discussing higher education in order to appeal to his audience’s…
A Problem With College There seems to be a problem with college, the quality of education has diminished and tuition costs have grown to new heights. Despite this, many people still choose to get a college education to gain an advantage in their career field. In “A New Course”, Magdalena Kay argues that the reason colleges do not adequately prepare students for their future lies in the curriculum. Teachers take away from content trying to make it relevant and don’t grade students honestly, giving out more As than they deserve.…
In the article, “We Are Teaching High School Students to Write Terribly The many problems of the SAT’s essay section” by Matthew J.X. Malady, argues that the SAT’s writing assessment is having a detrimental effect on students’ writing performance. Malady introduces the writing assessment of the SAT in his introductory. Malady provides the reader with the issues students are experiencing when they are writing their essay. In addition, he provides arguments to why the writing assessment is “unnecessary”.…
Patrick N. Allitt wrote an essay “Should Undergraduates Specialize?,” in Reading for Writer published 2013, the author feels that U.S. students should have the a choice for specializing. Patrick Allitt compares his college experience with that of his daughter who went to college 32 years ago. He talks about how he grew up with the British systems. Patrick Allitt explains that it was a specialized system that was paid for by the government, but you had to take a placement exam to enter college, only 90 people were in his class. He points out his daughter on the other hand had to pay for her college and to get in she had to make herself stand out from the millions of other applicants with extracurricular activities.…
Being a high school student, you have to take the Accuplacer. The Accuplacer examines student’s strengths and weaknesses to determine college readiness and academic performances. Students are tested on their reading comprehension, sentence skills, arithmetic, and elementary algebra. The first time I took the Accuplacer was in ninth grade. The teachers took all ninth graders into a room for testing.…
Recently, I have received information in the mail about a new program offered at Jackson College. The information I received informed me that Jackson College is now offering an American Honors program. As we know, college expenses are increasing as the years go by. This program makes a 4-year, bachelor’s degree affordable to those who may not be able to afford it. The American Honors program is a program offered to students at Jackson College.…
As opposed to regular school courses, the curriculum, pace and difficulty are all tweaked to ensure that the students are receiving the full benefits of the AP course (Popielarski). However, when looking deeper into the demographics of these Advanced Placement courses, there seems to be a pattern, in that these classes were predominantly white. In 2001, of the total AP exams given in the US, only 4.3% of the exams were taken by African Americans and 4.9% by Latino students (Higgins). These statistics sparked a discussion whether race posed any alarming issues in the AP…
Was the no “child left behind act” of 2002 a lawful decision of congress? Namely this act required that schools administer yearly math and language test to students in grades one through twelve (NewYorkTimes). These tests are used to observe students intelligence. Furthermore they can help the government establish the correct amount of funding a school receives. Standardized tests have a negative impact on society.…
She states that standardized testing resulted from the No child left behind bill enacted by congress that aimed at ensuring that all children in America would attain free elementary education. Although the author was at the forefront of advocating for this system, she is now opposed to it. The testing system according to the author has been used as a means to close down schools and judge both performance of students and teachers without taking into account other factors. Ravitch states that this system requires that schools be given yearly-standardized exams to monitor the progress of the students. These tests are meant to show if students meet the adequate yearly progress goals.…
Like many students, college students always want the easiest way to attain a good grade. That was what I experienced in high school. Teachers give credit for work completed rather than the accuracy of the work and students would receive credit for things that had nothing to do with materials being taught in class. For example, my teacher would give extra credit on essays for bringing tissue boxes to class. In high school, students get used to slacking off and procrastinating however teachers seemed like they did not care to help discourage these bad habits.…
The AP questions were different from typical MC questions in many ways. The questions used more difficult language than I’ve encountered on other tests. The questions were also set up to have two very good answers that both seemed correct, but only one that was best. The seconds best answer was there purposely to distract the test taker. These questions also required you to deeply analyze the passage and meanings behind it.…
“BDT Associates,” (Appendix A) consistent of classmates, Bonnie McCreary, Daniel Spain, and Toya Kilgore, is part of Walden University’s Consulting for Organizational Change Course (ISPY-8214). Part of the course requirement was for BDT Associates to work as a consulting group to discuss and analyze the case “Changing a University” (Warrick, n.d.). From the perspective of Organizational Development (OD) consultants, we were then required to utilize our theoretical learnings from this course, scholarly research in the field of organizational development and change, and our professional backgrounds to analyze the case. This paper present our group answers and my analysis of the following questions regarding the “Changing a University Case”:…
The negative impact of test-anxiety in educational systems are becoming increasingly more apparent and a more comprehensive understanding and solutions to this condition are greatly…
In the spring of 2009, more than one million high school students took Advanced Placement (AP) exams. Since it began in the 1950s, the AP program has allowed numerous high school students across the United States to take many of their high school courses at a college level stature. At the end of each course, students then take comprehensive exams to test their knowledge in order to earn college credit. While there are those who contend that the AP program has some positive aspects, many people would argue that this program does more harm than good for students. According to David W. Oxtoby, president of Pomona College, the truth about advanced placement courses is that taking such courses throughout high school will not necessarily prepare…
In the passage by Brad Stewart, “A Guaranteed Path To Academic Success” Brad Stewart explains to us the importance of academic success and ways to achieve it. Throughout the passage we are given six rules that will help us thrive through our college career. For example, going to class, doing assignments on time, talking to your professors, reading everything, respecting the teaching and learning environments and using the library and academic support centers and services. Throughout my school career, I have learned the importance of those rules and I have learned that if I put in my dedication and effort I will achieve my goals. All of these rules listed are very important , but the two rules that impacted my success in school were going…