High-yielding variety

I am privileged in the sense that I live in the United States of America in a single-family house share among my dad, my mom, and myself. However, I did not always have the idea that I was privileged though. Growing up I went to India plenty of time but I did not make much of it. My parents would donate food and clothes to the poor in India, but as an infant I obviously has no understanding of what was going on. This all changed. One day when I was about eight years old and traveled to India a…

percent, and 45 percent of students live in low-income families (Child Poverty). Research has been done and found that students from low income families acquire language and math skills more slowly, are 13.5 percent more likely to dropout, and enter high school about 4 grade levels behind those with higher socioeconomic status (Education and Socioeconomic status). This means that we have students who could be doing better, but are not doing better just because of how much money their parents…

The high school I attended was called Eastern Hills High School and was located in Fort Worth Texas. The area primarily contained students of middle and lower class. As far as race, about eighty percent of students were African American, ten percent were Hispanic, five percent were white, and the other five percent consisted of mixed races. Administration at my high school primarily consisted of women as they represented eighty percent of the staff. However, from high school, I also saw that the…

by my own parents, a good friend of ours homeschooled me. Thats when I learned so much. For me the one-on-one experience made so much of a difference. I improved my math from a 3rd and 4th grade level to testing into 9th grade math when I went into high school. One of the memories that I vividly have, is when I was learning my times tables. I would sit down at the octagon glass table next to the fire place. This is were I would do all my school work. I would…

college in the state of Texas, but I thought I would not enjoy living down south. Right around April, I decided to enroll at Purdue as a biochemistry major (chemistry concentration) with the goal of attending Medical School. I enjoyed Chemistry in High school so I thought that I would breeze through it in college. Towards the end of the first semester, I realized that I was in over my head, and I changed my major to biochemistry (biology concentration). It did not take long for me to come to the…

All seniors in this High school rotated between school and work, two weeks at school and two weeks at work to acquire practical hands on training within their major. For example, a Cosmetology student would work two weeks at a hair salon to gain practical experience and go…

to achieve this dream for most people is to attend a college or university right after high school. High schools strongly encourage all students to try and go to a great four year college, but is this absolutely necessary. These days it seems that if one does not attend college and receive a degree, they are not respectable or they are not as intelligent as others. This is not true. Many people who are in high school simply aren’t cut out for such rigorous and so-called “standard” college…

Speaker Alexandra Robbins is a New York Times bestselling author of Pledged and The Overachievers. She’s spent over a decade “examining… various microcosms in U.S schools” and is the 2007 recipient of the Heartsongs award for her contributions to the mental health of children and young adults (Robbins, 6). Robbins immediately establishes credibility by featuring her credentials in her About the Author section and mentioning her experience in U.S schools early on in the book. In The Geeks Shall…

I sit on Erin 's bed next to Petunia the cat. Petunia is probably my favorite Augustine cat although it 's just so hard to pick favorites. She has the cutest orange and black pattern. Not that Charlie and Rosie aren 't cute but they 're both so mean to Petunia, she 's old and weak and her purr is the most adorable noise and she never tries to hurt them but they always attack her. The only sound is the sound of Erin typing on her computer. Our paper is due tomorrow and neither of us have started,…

and ultimately whether they are ready to enter into a career or not. ACT scores are used in a variety of ways…