Student voice

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smarts” students adequately into the classroom curriculum, stating that student’s interests are identified as anti-intellectual, and that the educational system ignores the potential that might emerge from their areas of interest. Graff also calls into question the legitimacy of the educational system that favors more notable literary books or subjects…

you ever thought that life is against you? Nothing is happening the way it should be? Then, think about those problems of your life differently i.e. positively. The time when I felt that my life is against me was when I lost the post I wanted in student government of my school. Positive thinking skills helped me to come out of depression and taught me a great lesson of life, i.e. whatever happens it happens for good. So, my positive thinking skills helped me to get out of depression and helped…

As the US population is becoming increasingly diverse due to globalization, our schools and classrooms are becoming filled with multiethnic students from different cultures and countries. Now having that in mind, the school systems, educators, and policies must tolerate the fact that these students are not like the native ones. They think, act, and talk differently. Intercultural education for the educators to have certain skills to communicate with the a globalizing classroom is very essential…

Dog Ate My Flash Drive, and Other Tales of Woe a college student would be able to relate to them. As both essays deal with two different subjects that can both effect the person’s college experience. College Pressure deals more with what can happen during their experience that causes the pressure to rise on them. The Dog Ate my Flash Drive, and Other Tales of Woe or College Excuses is based more around different types of excuses a student makes to get a longer time on an assignment. As a…

Grit can be defined as a determined or goal driven person. So what makes a college student with grit different from a college student without grit? Even though a student without grit still has a plan to finish, they do not always do whatever it takes as a student with grit would. There are several differences between the two. Some of the differences are determination, not accepting failure, and passion. A student with grit has great determination. They want to achieve a long term goal…

hard for some people, since students have been accustomed to high school for four years. It is students’ first experience and can be intimidating for some scholars. It is not like school, where everything is handed to you as to where college is more about individual work. The straightforwardness of just 6 classes every day does not compare to college. In order to succeed in college, a student has to adapt to a new culture to where he or she can be successful. A student has to understand that…

college can be overwhelming for majority of student, and some would focus on studying that they would forget to have fun and communicate outside the class. That why Sacramento State University offer a program to aid student with their first semester by assign a peer mentor to every seminar class, A peer mentor is a collaborative program with the First year experience (FYE), to provide support for the first year student. In order to assist first year student overcome the challenging transition to…

a mindset where students are willing to have a positive…

Two articles talk about how computer software is becoming a trend in grading students’ essays. Computer software that grades multiple-choice exams has been around for a while. New software has been developed in more recent years to tackle grading essays. Computer grading has evolved in the recent years, but the journey of computers grading essays has just begun. Computers grading essays is still a new concept; therefore, many kinks still need to be addressed. Like all new ideas, computers…