Elementary and Secondary Education Act

When did college begin to become a way of life, a necessity in most households? Most parents encourage their children to go to college from a very young age. For a lot, it’s simply a way of life. You grow up, leave high school, and then go straight into college. In Frank Bruni’s, “The Imperiled Promise of College,” he speaks about how numerous people are going to college, yet a lot of them don’t have jobs after they receive their diploma, or that their job has nothing to do with what they have…

Program. Also, the Honors residential community creates a place where people with the same academic dedication as I can live and bond. As an only child, the concept of sharing a room remains foreign, but having a roommate that prides herself on her education, just like I do, will ease the drastic change from home life to campus life. I want to look back on my college years and regard them as some of the best years of my life, where I made close friends, and I think the Honors Program will help…

Researchers in human behavior study how it affects whom we are, how we act, and asks how we get that behavior. Could this be passed on through our ancestors, our mom, or our dad? Can we change our ways in how we live life? Do we become the way we are just because we inherit the behavior or is it our surroundings? “Fences” tells the story of a Black family who are living in a rough situation. The question is if their behavior is more connected with nature or nurture. In the story “Fences”…

According to a publication, Kevin Leicht (an authority in the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign’s sociology department) says that America is focusing too much around the earnings gap between white and black workers, and doesn’t focus enough on the disparities within them. His writing was published in the Sociological Quarterly and delves deeper into the arguments surrounding income inequality and how America is distracted from finding practical solutions. Currently, it has been…

students did not have to work while in school, the graduation rate would improve drastically, and students at universities could graduate in four years instead of six or more years. Additionally, the biggest reason why students drop out of higher education is that they cannot afford the high cost of tuition. Overall, many students are being hopeless, educated workers are decreasing, and graduation rate are decreasing because of college tuition so college should be free. Additionally,…

colleges in the United States. This number has increased dramatically since 1949, when just 2.7 million students were seeking a college education. Every decade since the end of World War II has seen an obvious increase in the number of college graduates produced (“Is a College Education Worth It?”). What has caused this peaking interest toward a higher education? What has this growth led to? College has altered the course of young American life. It has become a necessity rather than an option.…

Imagine you were the so-called “perfect” student. You got A’s on every assignment, you were top of the class, and you understood concepts perfectly. Then, imagine not getting into the your perfect college, only getting accepted into colleges that did not correspond with your academic level. You got beat out to an unworthy student who never turned in an assignment a day in his life, but, who just so happened to get a better SAT score than you. Most students would be devastated; unfortunately this…

Everybody deserves a chance to receive an education to accomplish their goals, however college tuition remains expensive. Especially with my choice to attend a private university, tuition is more expensive in comparison to public universities. Currently, my father is my family’s source of income and my mother does not work. Along with my tuition fees, my family will soon need to pay for my younger brother’s college fees as well as he enters college in about five years. If my parents request me…

The opposition believes that freshman students living in Texas should not be allowed to live off campus. From their viewpoint, living off campus is more convenient for some students. For example, not only is off campus living more affordable but living off campus also provides student with a sense of freedom. To begin with, in most college cities, there are many forms of housing within the vicinity of a student’s school. Students who like to refrain from taking out loans, or do not have the…

College has been seen again and again as a stepping stool in a person’s life to get where one like to be. We spend 1/3 of our life going to school to learn, interact, socialize and earn a degree. How much of that is worth it? Why should we spend so long just for a piece of paper? Are too many people and the competition worth all the pain, financial stress, and imbalances in a person’s life? College is only getting more expensive by the year, and everyone deserves to go to college to learn, but…