Analysis Of Marita's Bargain By Malcolm Gladwell

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Gladwell, Malcolm. “Marita’s Bargain.” Collections. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015, pp. 3-14. Many people blame the teachers and the different educational methods for the reason for their children's failure in school. Although Malcolm Gladwell points out in an article that the problem is that they receive too much time away from school during vacation. Gladwell organized a research study on a large group of minority students attending a school, KIPP, in the Bronx. He examine the working of what a successful school schedule should like. In KIPP they school day are longer: giving the scholars to fully process the subject and ask many questioned without feeling restricted to a certain time limit. In regular public schools vacations are too long.

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