The College Dropout

College life is caricatured as endless keg stands and carefree one night stands. Generations of American teens have been raised on Hollywood’s depiction of the college experience: fraternity parties, tailgating at football games, sharing clothes with roommates, studying abroad, and meeting the love of your life through the stacks in the library. This idyllic version of college is not reality. The first college in the United States, Harvard College, was founded in 1636. According to Harvard…

efforts to prepare career and college ready graduates. Career and technical education is thought to be useful to students because it demonstrates the application of classroom learning in the real word, engages them by using authentic tasks and tools, and teaches them employable skills. While some argue that students who take part in career and technical education are provided opportunities to extend classroom learning and develop critical understating of potential work environments (Brown, 2003;…

friends and dealing with drama, but there is one aspect of a person’s time in high school that contributes the most stress, college. During the four years of high school, adolescents are pressured by their parents and teachers to get into a good college you need good grades, but all of them fail to mention the cost of a higher education. The average cost of four year college is about $24,061 a year and at a total cost of $96,244 for just the tuition (Fillion, 2016). That’s a big debt to agree to…

arrives to your doorsteps and you open it with pride. After all, you got accepted to the college or university you always saw yourself at. You open the admission packet and the first thing that you see is the estimated family contribution and your heart starts to sink. All the joy, the overwhelming happiness, everything that you felt a moment ago comes to a stop. All those weeks of preparation and googling through college necessities go to waste. You ask yourself one question, “Even though I put…

Therapist, by having the desire to want to help people in a special type of way. Then, I quickly realized that I was not quite ready for graduate school. I wanted to do something more, something that was not about me – so I did. I spent two years after college in Baton Rouge, Louisiana participating in National Service. I served…

Everyone Go To College? Many parents have the mindset that a person who does not go to college will eventually fail in life. That perhaps is the reason why most parents pressure their sons and daughters to get a college degree. It is understandable that a parent would want their children to succeed in life, but is college the best way for everybody to achieve success in life? What about the other people, the ones who does not have an opportunity nor have the right skills to succeed in college?…

Having your college education taken away from you is like striping away your future. Students in the United States should not have their education and future striped away from them therefore, community colleges must be free to attend and state colleges need to lower their tuition in order for student to continue their education. For those who are interested in continuing their education, could benefit from this, they can become successful and live a better life. They wouldn’t have to worry about…

The poor status of our nation’s education system today persists us to reminisce upon a time in our country where changes in our inner city schools happened after minority voices were heard. On March 1968, after having enough of their inadequate school environments, the young Chicanos of East LA organized a mass high school walkout. These individuals were revolutionaries during a time their voices were ignored; they were forced to remain victims of a discriminatory school system unashamed in…

graduation rates and standardized test scores in Ohio’s public high schools over a five-year period. Their study found that participation rate and winning percentage are positively related to higher test scores in addition to lower rates of high school dropouts (Bowen and Hitt). Roger L. Whitley of Currituck County Middle School performed a survey of North Carolina high schools over a three year period. He found that the educational performance of athletes is better than that of…

answer two questions that pertained to school security policies. The first question being, what types of schools tend to have the most extensive security measures? And the second question asking, how does school security relate to suspension, dropout, and college attendance rates? The data they used was drawn from several measures…