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amounts of homework on difficult material where worthy students take part to earn college credit. Now, one course is difficult enough to manage, but multiple courses are impossible to manage. As a result, students that are loading multiple AP courses, 3 or more, are being overworked. The effect of overworking students is counter intuitive to the objective of AP courses, in which they want to challenge the student to help them excel. However, students won’t be working at their full potential if…

examined as necessary as teachers‟ understanding and attitudes about culturally diverse students in the schoolrooms. Teachers are the central elements in motivating, educating, and progressing to a deviation in the teaching of students, regardless of their gender, ethnicity, age, faith, speech, or exceptionality. The legal age of teachers usually, consciously or unconsciously, exhibit biases towards students in some way, says Gollnick & Chinn (1991). There is then this possibility of a mismatch…

One reason middle school student should have recess is it gives students a break to relax and to get fresh air and to clear their heads. A recent survey of middle school students show that student need to have recess to get a brain break from school work so they do not get too much stress from work and it will help you think better. 9/10 of students think we should have recess because they need a break from school work. This could help students to get a break and give students a time to get to…

What makes a college student successful? College students all around the world work hard to do what they do. They use techniques from other people to help them become successful. How do they have the time to focus and study in college? Students often tell me, “Once you get into college, it’s going to be difficult.” Yeah, it may be difficult for college students, but why not just work hard and preserve through it all? To be a successful college student, you have to challenge yourself in your…

accept to their university and who does not is to create a diverse and unified community. Nonetheless, not all the international students like the idea of mingling with domestic students. There is no explanation to such fact, but it happens and it seems as if no one is ready or simply does not care to talk about it. However, I want to talk about it, an international student, named Chengcheng Xiang ’18, has her own thoughts on this issue. According to Xiang, a foreigner will inherently feel…

With the growing number of incoming Chinese international students on campus in the past five years, language barrier stands as a major challenge. 300 out of 1700 undergraduate international students at Stony Brook University are from Chinese speaking country according to the International admission office, language barrier is the first challenge for them when they step on campus. Mariana Catalano, a 10 years coordinator of the undergraduate English as Second Language Program (ESL) at Stony…

the past few decades, international students’ enrollments in the United States have increased greatly in higher education institutions (Gómez, Urzúa, and Glass, 2014). According to the literature, many international students who attend higher education institutions in the United States find the campus environment to be very stressful, demanding and challenging (Yakunina, Weigold, Weigold, Herecegovc, and Elsayed, 2013). As a result, many international students end up dropping out from their…

“About 75 percent of college students admit to cheating, suggesting that probably even more than three quarters of college students have done something against the rules to improve their grades.”(Cheating) Although a college student may think it’s okay to cheat and get away with it, Academic Integrity defines the perfect college student as putting in honest effort. The most important element of academic integrity would be putting in honest effort such as, no cheating, responsibility, etc.…

Many students, along with me, believe that students should get paid for having good grades. Having good grades means students work hard in school and accomplish what they are asked to do. Students should get paid for getting good grades because it helps encourage them to complete their work. If students get a reward for earning good grades then the grades may go up in the U.S.A because students are trying harder. It seems to me that students would appreciate gaining something for receiving good…

As a Student Affairs professional, the special population I wish to serve is Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) students. EOP students are students who have been identified as having the talent and ability to succeed in college, but have been placed at a disadvantage by financial and academic circumstances. Approximately 93 percent of EOP students have family incomes of less than $25,000 per year (Educational Opportunity Program, n.d.). Although colleges and universities are becoming…