Gladwell's Family Education Case Study

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1. What is special about the KIPP program would be that it is an educational system that has the ability to prepare and educate their students in effective ways. For example, they use the protocol “SSLANT”, which helps the students focus on the material.
2. The major difference between Asian and U.S. notions regards to work ethic as it relates to education would be that effort must be balanced with rest. For example, the United States children have a shorter school year that consists of one hundred and eighty, which allow them to have a longer vacation. As for Asian children their school year, consist of two hundred forty-three days, which demonstrates that they have shorter summer.
3. The significance of summer for students in an elementary school would be children need a break to relax and have fun from their
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How the qualities of outliers apply to Gladwell’s family would be that his mother was born at the right time before the riot of 1937. Also, the location of where his mother received her education placed an impact on her success. This is because she was not given everything, she had to wait and see what actions she can do to for her education. After, having the opportunity to advance her education, the problem of money soon developed. Daisy had to seek a way to find money, which resulted in her asking “Chinese Shops” for money. Overall, Daisy tried her best to make Joyce become a successful individual.
2. The reason that Gladwell says that his mother’s path to success was “not true” would be because he says that some facts of his mother were made up because it leaves out various other opportunities and some cultural facts.
3. I feel that people that live in the United States do have more opportunities compared to other countries. This is because we have welfare programs, financial resources, and regulations on businesses, health, and education that support many people in the United States, which do reduce problems and tensions in

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