Grade retention

My proudest accomplishment is something I have been working very hard on over the course of my senior year. At my high school courses called dual credit are offered to seniors in the subject’s government and English. These courses are much more advanced seeing as they are actually EPCC courses and when completed students revive college credit for them if their semester averages out to at least an eighty. The most challenging class out of both that I am enrolled in is English 1301 which consist…

King 18 March, 2016 Should students have letter grades? Letter grades should not be used to grade students in school. Because there here to learn, not to pass things.(In fact, they’re “relics from a less enlightened age,” says education expert Alfie Kohn, author of punished by rewards and schooling beyond measure and who (Time Magazine Cindy Long) (describes as “perhaps the country’s most outspoken critic of education’s fixation on grades and test scores.) “The research quite clearly shows…

Joclyne Gonzalez Professor Mora English 1A 13 September 2016 Earned or Given? In the article “Grade Inflation a Sign of Societal Mediocrity” by Greg Jayne, the author examines how the grades placed on the paper may or may not be the true reflection of the students work. Today’s parents have high expectations for their children to obtain good grades. But does the grade really come from students hard work, demonstrated through homework, quizzes, tests, etc or from somewhere else. That…

When I was in 2nd grade, I had the long term goal of graduating high school, and up to this day I would consider that one of my now short term goal is to graduate high school. Before I am able to graduate I want to set myself to do well in AP Calculus by getting an 90 or higher. My grades are really important to me. I have several teachers tell us that grades are not important and what really matters is what you really know. They might be right, but I feel that my grade reflects on what I know…

On September 13th, 2015, Ms. McCready published an article titled, “Why You Shouldn’t Pay Children for Grades.” This article emphasized the negative effects that students obtain while they are rewarded with money for their grades on their school assignments. Ms. McCready includes information which matches her argument throughout the entire article. “But no matter how much we want it to, money can’t buy smarts, motivation or school success,” states McCready. As the author speaks to parents of…

have always been and A-B student, and have always been on the honor roll. My College GPA is not something I dont take pride in, but I would not say it justifys me, who I am, and my work ethic. Every course I take I always try my best in. Recieiving a grade lower then a B is never something I strive for. I always like to make sure I excell in everything I do. In life, we do not always get what we want. There will be ups and downs throughout anyones journey in life. If I recieve a C it is not the…

what is going on or how you are going to get good grades this semester? If you would like to succeed in life and do well in school it is suggested that you should learn how to get respectable grades. If you get satisfactory grades overall, you can go to a good quality college and after that you can have an acceptable job that will provide you a steady income for your necessities and life in general. If someone does not get a hold of appropriate grades, most likely that person will not do well…

High school grades were so easy to calculate and looked like it followed a clear grading scale. However, college seems to grade things differently. In high school, grades always started with an “A” and depending on what you got on all of your assignments, tests, and quizzes, that “A” will either go up or it will go down. In college, you do not start out with a letter but instead, you calculate all of your scores from the very start of the semester to the very end, and whatever you have…

high school student wants to be an athlete, then getting good grades should be a requirement. It should be mandatory for teachers and coaches to check the grades of student athletes weekly to determine whether students are performing academically well or not. The students that aren’t doing well should be dismissed from any further games and practices until their grades improve. It is important that student athletes maintain good grades because the work that they put into their school performance…

Introduction Several factors in an individual’s social environment, such as their social network and physical health can serve to improve test scores, grade point average, class rank and SAT scores, however, other factors such as social media could possibly take away valuable study time and can distract students from their much needed studies. A student’s social network must include peers who are positively excelling in academic performance in order to be beneficiary to this student. Sports and…