Marita's Bargain By Malcolm Gladwell

Many students believe having the longest vacation is the best, but in fact it’s bad because during that time period the students would forget what they learned.Then what was the whole point practicing that entire year to just forget it in two months. In order to increase student success at Anaheim School students must go to summer school at least two times a week for the entire summer to be able to graduate. The name of the article is “Marita's Bargain” written by Malcolm Gladwell. “But take a look at the following sets of elementary school test-score results ,and See if your faith in the value of long summer holidays isn’t profoundly shaken”(6). The author of this article explains how some students dropped their grades after a vacation. They …show more content…
In order to increase student success at Anaheim School teachers should ask their students if they would like to teach the class a lesson about a subject because this would probably make the students feel more comfortable talking to public and learn something on there own. Carol S. Dweck wrote “The Secret to Raising Smart Kids” it’s an article about the human mindset. “Although many, if not most, parents believe that they should build up a child by telling him or her how brilliant and talented he or she is, our research suggests that this misguided”(25).This quote explains that parents shouldn’t treat their kids like if they were still babies, but treat them different. Adults should give children some responsibilities on making them young adults. ”The helpless one believes that intelligence is a fixed trait: you have only a certain amount, and that’s that”(23). Having a certain intelligence is impossible, to gain knowledge you need to learn by yourself. Asking kids to teach in front on a classroom makes them more comfortable to the public. They also get to learn something and teach it to their peers. Making a change like this around the community of Anaheim High Schools would be helpful. For example many students in Anaheim High School are really shy when presenting and this should …show more content…
Carol did some research about the human mindset in Columbia. Her patients were a couple of students around the ages of 14-17. Carol concluded that there are two different mindsets. A mindset she found was Fixed Mindset which means that this person doesn’t really learn they just want to pass the class by cheating. The next mindset is Growth Mindset this person doesn’t care about the grade as long as they learn. This type of person likes to put in the time even though they know they won't succeed. Carol went to Columbia for five years to do her research. In the classrooms, she would hand out tests and examine who would try. Some students wouldn’t try cause they had no clue what they were learning while others tried. Carol believes parents should challenge their children at all times because it makes them use their heads to solve the problem cause many kids these days want their parents doing the work for them. This Article is mostly a scientific experiment. She’s trying to catch the parents’ attention same as teachers. They should read it because it offers a lot of valuable information on how to make a kid smarter. After reading“Marita’s Bargain” there are some things that both articles have something in common. For example, both of them show Growth mindset students that want to learn and their parents encourage their children a lot to become successful. A difference between both stories is that fixed mindset