The College Dropout

Dropping Out Of High School Being in high school can be very hard on a teenager because so many things can effect a student’s performance. In high school there are cliques, peer pressure, good and bad teachers, a lot of work, interesting people, and there are high expectations that can sometimes stress students out. In high school there are pressures to want to fit in and be popular. The common idea among students is that doing work is not cool and that being in school is an absolute waste of…

Hispanic Youth Dropout Rates: Implementation of Educational Strategies to Lower Rates Introduction Hispanic’s success in education and the labor market is of both immediate and long-term importance to America’s economy. Failure in high school not only affects the individual, but also negatively impacts multiple aspects of our society. Some of these negative aspects include a lost chance for a college education, lower paying jobs, political apathy, decrease in tax revenue, health problems and…

Is the cost of college becoming too much to the point where it outweighs the benefits of the education itself? Throughout the decades a college education has gained many benefits and is considered by the majority to be the next logical step in life after high school. College nowadays is seen as a necessity, students coming straight out of high school are pressured by guidance counselors and other authoritative figures to make college the next step. All because it is said that with this higher…

to move forward in their lives? Leon Botstein, President of Bard College believes that high school should be taken out in all its entirety. Botstein thinks that clichés are the major problem and that’s why high school should be erased, but is that really the major issue in High Schools these days? All students in America are required to go to school until old enough to drop out with permission from a legal guardian; would the dropout rate would be so high if students didn’t feel like they were a…

Online vs classroom education Dropout rates in the United States is a big issue, but how can someone can prevent that from happening? Giving students the opportunity to take online classes can really help. The big issue here is why hasn 't regular face to face classroom learning helped students out. It 's the teachers not doing their work or does this have to do with the students? We can see the behavior of students if it has to do with a personal problem or they just don 't like school at…

Flatt, A.K. (2013). A Suffering Generation: Six factors contributing to the mental health crisis in North American higher education. College Quarterly, 16(1), 1. In this article the author brought attention to the severe mental health crisis brewing on campuses across North America whereby students are struggling with depression, anxiety, suicidal thoughts and psychosis. This crisis created a shift in the needs of students seeking counseling service from more developmental and informational…

Introduction In Johnathan Kozol’s Savage Inequalities, one student named Jezebel recounted the time when she knew that her school was not equally funded as other schools, “they have that money goin’ to their schools. They have a nice clean school to go to. They have carpets on the floors and air-conditioned rooms and brand-new books. Their old books, when they’re done with them, they ship them here to us.” (Kozol, 2012, p. 210). Students like Jezebel are aware that their schools do not get as…

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Getting students to drop out of college in this day and age has become more acceptable in recent memory than in the past. There are numerous reasons why students drop out of college. But this argument is narrowed to why I think students drop out of college after their freshman year. Attracting students to drop out has proven to be as attractive as getting them to enroll in the firstplace the three most common,examples that are given: Facebook, Google, and Microsoft. In those three cases, the…

on their mind is college. Once students have graduated, more often than not they turn to higher education. Having a diploma while searching for a job has many benefits, of course – a higher salary and more opportunity for moving up the career ladder are just a few of the perquisites that come with higher education. However, with the cost of living ever on the rise alongside college tuition rates, can college still be considered a feasible option for students? It seems that college accessibility…