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Learning vs. Grading System When schools first started, the motive was to provide vast knowledge to students. Along with starting schools, a certain standard was set centuries ago by scholars who thought that they need a way to evaluate the learning procedure of students based solely on letters or numbers given on the tests taken by students. Education system was based on judging the students instead of their creativity and uniqueness by various colleges, universities, graduate schools and…

High School Activities Wile excelling in basketball and six-man football, I was taught important life skills. I have been team captain for both sports from my freshman year, this has put me in team leader positions where I was required to develop leadership skills. Throughout high school, I participated in multiple organizations that furthered my academic education and added to my accomplishments, such as National Honor Society, 4-H, FFA, and Letterman’s Club. All of which I held an office…

Education is everywhere. A majority of someone’s life is spent working toward a person’s ideal education. From age five to eighteen is required, nevertheless, how many of us continue on? And what is the reason some do choose to go on to college? To make more money? To have a strategy? Peer pressure? Furthering one’s education is a decision full of rich opportunities. A few say that one goal in life would be self support. Acquiring an advanced education allows for the idea of self support to be a…

My point here is that poverty prevents the marginalized children from quality education access, at the same time hindering them from selecting the school of their choice Wedgwood (2007) contended that Tanzania had reached the universal primary education in the past, and the maximum number of adults could read and write. Yet to the contrary, the country remains one of the poorest in Africa. The reason for the situation, Wedgwood (2007) blamed the teaching, learning arrangement, and the atmosphere…

In today’s day and age many students trudge themselves from class to class contemplating their choices about continuing on to college and whether or not it is really important to them. It may be a case of young adult laziness, but is it really? It seems as if students are becoming more and more pressured to attend a four year university than ever, promoting those who do on such a level that those who don’t feel remarkably inferior. It is hard to measure whether or not a student truly wants to be…

Weighted Average Math 123 I have designed an Excel sheet providing information over a Psychology 205. This class was graded by homework 10%, quizzes 10%, papers 25%, midterm 25% and final grade 30%. After all the information of the students was provided, the average in general was solved by using the Excel program. The Excel program solved everything, I just typed in the information that was provided and the equation for the program found the solution. It came to the conclusion, that the…

Since 1986, St. Mary’s University (formerly known as St. Mary’s University College) has been providing quality post secondary education to Calgary and area. St. Mary’s University has sought to provide a strong liberal arts education rooted in traditional catholic values, with emphasis on small class sizes to allow for an in-depth education; this establishes significant relationships among the students, and between students and their professors. As St. Mary’s has grown over the years, more and…

Why College Education Is Important When people discuss seeking in postsecondary education, many young adults think in a negative way. For instance, they question themselves why to waste my time, money, and effort in college. Also, we can start working right now, or go to trade school and finish my career. However, people need to ponder twice about college on a long run. If they do not consider a college education, then their dreams of achieving a higher profession would not come right. As a…

With a population of 122.3 million people, México has 78.3% living in urban areas around the country. Looking at a cartogram of this pattern, one could tell that around the central band of México, including México City, Aguascalientes, Guadalajara, Xalapa, Veracruz, Puebla, Morelia, and Cuernavaca only covers 10% of the land but is home to more than half of all the Mexicans. The other 90% of land in México holds about 50 million people. Not only does this create a vast difference demographically…

Education is important to individuals because it opens the door to rewarding careers, and places those individuals in elite positions of responsibility and leadership to serve others. However, one particular race dominates these rewarding careers. Elizabeth Anderson and Lawrence Blum address this in different ways. Anderson takes a top-down approach and the focuses on fostering racial diversity in order to make elites more diverse, thus furthering the public good. In contrast, Blum takes a…