Improving Student Success In Marita's Bargain

In order to increase student success at Anaheim schools, summers should be shorter in order for students to remember what they learned once school starts again. The title of this story is “Marita’s Bargain”. The author is Malcolm Gladwell and the genre is fiction. “And if he looked at the difference between the student’s scores in June and then on September he could then see how much the student had learned over the course of the summer” (7). There has been evidence that shows how this experiment helps students succeed. “Look at the first column, which measures what happens over the summer after firstgrade. The wealthiest kids come back in September and their reading scores have jumped more than 15 points. The poorest kids come back from holidays and their reading scores have dropped almost 4 point” (8). There has …show more content…
At a certain point, you have all struggled to master a certain material, you’ll try to find a solution to a math problem for example as soon as you can’t find the solution you’ll give up. A change that needs to happen at Anaheim HS is to improve student success by telling kids they worked hard on something they don’t understand so they can have a growth mindset. The title of this article is “Raising Smart Kids”. The author is Carol S. Dweck and the genre is fiction. “We praised some of them for their intelligence: “Wow...that’s a really good score. You must have worked really hard.” We found that intelligence praised encouraged a fixed mind-set more often than did pats on the back for effort” (25). Students with a growth mindset said