Marita's Bargain: Article Analysis

Gladwell.Malcolm.”Marita’s Bargain.”Collection, edited by Beers, Hougen and Jago etal., Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015, pp.3-14 In this research article, it is talking about what makes KIPP Academy so amazing compared to other schools in America and regarding what type of students are attending. Accordingly, evaluating the students and their living situation was one of the biggest pieces so they were able to understand and comprehend so they could know what are they doing to keep themselves on track to do so good at the academy. In fact, they gathered information from all over KIPP students and interviewed them on their day to day life at KIPP. Even so, they gathered information from all types of school from all over the world to compare and contrast with KIPP. Dweck’s article differs from this one because this article mainly focuses on how the schools can make students great and not how parents can contribute like in Dweck’s article. No doubt, this research article …show more content…
In other words, depending if the school is an all girl school or a co-educational school really has an effect on the student's education. Not only that but it focuses on how they can't implants parents into putting their children into these single-sex classrooms or school. They gathered the information by an interview, testing and observing the scores of those students at an all-girl school and those in a co-educational school. Not to mention this article is mainly aimed at parents and student. So they know the knowledge of why the single-sex schools are doing so well. In any case, compared to the article of Paul Tough it's similar since it's focusing on what is making students better in their education. In conclusion, the article is mainly about how beneficial a single-sex classroom is and how much people need to realize how much these schools are helping the