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This phenomena is known as the cycle of poverty and it runs counter to one of the ideals we hold sacred: meritocracy. Ideally, we would not see a correlation between a parent’s income level and the income level of the child. The child’s income should rise or fall depending on the talent of the individual. Unfortunately, this is not the case. The problem is more than ideological. The cycle of poverty is expensive for the United States. Poverty is associated with crime, increase use of public…

Having both African American ancestry itself fails to show true understanding and respect for cultural differences, I have been recognized as having showing leadership and academic achievement even while being thrown into unfamiliar cultures. Largely my curiosity of wanting to discover other cultures was because I sought to find where I fit in. Among the invisible line of separation between certain cultural groups of people in the lunch room, I jumped around, but always found myself in the…

are away from their parent's salvation. Bullying happens on a daily basis to everyone and it isn't fun. Bullying can cause many children to harm themselves or others. More than half of all students from the ages 11-18 are bullied everyday. In high schools bullying is more prominent due to the fact that all students…

my comfort zone, I selected a high school article. The high school article is called, “Social Emotional Learning in High School: How Three Urban High Schools Engage, Educate, and Empower Youth,” by MarYam G. Hamedani and Linda Darling-Hammond. Research on implementing Social Emotional Learning is usually implemented in elementary school and studies have showed that it was very effective. There is very little research on implementing Social Emotional Learning in high school and evaluating the…

Kicked off? 62% of people say that education is more important than sports and athletes who have good grades are allowed on the team, but if they don’t have the grades that they need, then they should get kicked off the team until their grades rises to where it should be at. Student athletes should not be able to be on the team with bad grades cause that person won’t be a successful person in life and if your a Division 1 college and someone on your team is very good at the sport, but doesn’t…

only pupils in the larger picture. Some students have extreme troubles at home and have jobs which they value more than school. They too may therefore not care much about education. For those of society who believe that voluntary education would give rise to crime rates, think otherwise. As stated in the novel A Primer on Social Problems, “Offending rates are highest in the late teens and early twenties and decline thereafter. Accordingly, people in the 15-24 age range account for about 40…

it is said students spend an average of 2.5 hours a night on homework. Students have their sights set on achieving their own academic goals, but are pressured when school is always on their mind. Since 2000, almost 20% more students have said that high grades are a requirement to succeed in life. Academics can reach a point to be overwhelming to a student and cause burn out, or the physical or mental breakdown due to an overload of stress. Paired with competition to succeed among students, and…

more and more high school graduates are attending college to get a degree. This increase in attendance in the past few years has the demand for college sky rocketing; opening the door for colleges around the nation to increase the cost of attendance. The film Ivory Tower discusses this issue and makes the claim that the price of college tuition is increasing more than any other good or service in America and at this frightening rate soon college tuition will be set astronomically high. Young…

attendance has amplified. With an abundant amount of students looking to attend college, schools wanted to be seen as the number one choice. In doing so, universities strive for reputations which attract individuals to attend the school. Schools with high grade point averages and graduation rates are viewed as superior to those with lower figures, thus grade inflation transpires. It is argued that grades are becoming less credible because the student’s true potential is not being calculated.…

With a sample of 1,800 secondary schools students, our research team in 2003 found no significant difference between the three social classes (low, middle and high by parental occupation). The proportion of physical violence committed by each group was proportional to its presence in the total sample. For example, while 51 percent of the sample comprised lower class students, 50 percent of the total physical…