University of Minnesota

While a statewide report, there are many suburbs in Minnesota that have are majority white, and their schools are majority white with advanced courses, which shows that race, ethnicity, and economic class do play a role in enrollment in advanced courses, as students of a higher economic class had the opportunity to take advanced courses. The bit of diversity in my advanced courses, however, was not reflected in the students who actually took the exams. While there are no longer any policies…

Gun Laws and Regulations Regulations and Gun rights for college campuses is something that has many people questioning the laws. The legislative passing a law allowing college employees and students to carry guns is not the greatest idea. All college students shouldn’t be allowed to carry hand guns. The law should remain as keeping concealed licenses then traversing into open-carry license. There’s a great debate on rather teachers should have the right to be armed which in my opinion could…

the much-talked “freshman fifteen”. This is a phenomenon where college freshman gain weight during the first year of school due to both physical and psychological issues that arise during that time. However, according to Grabmeier at Ohio State University research showed those students actually gain between 2.5 and 3.5 pounds during freshman year (Zagorsky). Many go too far and become preoccupied by the phenomenon that it can become unhealthy. Researchers Smith-Jackson and Reel found that women…

not understandable why the grading criteria is not consistent for both of these institutions. Following rules throughout the education system is mostly a major concern for high school teachers. D Royce Sadler, a Senior Assessment Scholar at the University of Queensland, Australia, explains that most teachers would use a scale with percentages in high…

Have you ever wondered if you were going to attend college? If so, have you thought about where you want to go? Everyone in the world at least thinks about college a few times. Some want to attend, some may not. You can still get a great paying job even if you don’t attend college. Maybe not the job you wanted. Some jobs depend on if you go to college and get a degree in your liking or not. What I want to be requires a lot more years of school after high school graduation. Well, being a curious…

Throughout the relatively young history of the United States of America, citizens and immigrants often possessed the dream of living a comfortable and financially secure life. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald describes an era, the roaring twenties, in which attainment of this dream was possible. On the contrary, Lev Grossman, author of “Grow Up? Not So Fast,” manages to inform readers about the severe debt and pressure current college students face as a result of attending college and…

Michaela Cullington’s essay, “Does Texting Affect Writing?”, discusses three hypotheses on whether texting carries a negative, positive, or no effect in academic writing. While she was undergraduate student at Marywood University, she wrote this essay in 2010 in response to the bias held by teachers, authors, and students on the effects of texting. Perhaps during the year of 2010, the significant increase of texting led her to write this article. Because technology and electronics perpetually…

Effect of Response Cards on Saudi Students with EBD in English Class. Manal Y. Al sheef Minnesota State University (Mankato) Introduction I have always found the idea behind the teaching strategy of response cards (RC) to students from Saudi Arabia with EBD in my country. It was drilled into my head that if we as teachers do not include this strategy, then students will not learn effectively and the class be bored. As we know teaching today is much more than telling facts from a textbook, it…

Robert Wittenberg sat at the kitchen table in his lakeside condominium apartment, sorting through his mail which had accumulated over the last seven days while he was in Las Vegas. Aside from the standard bills that came every month, there was an assortment of junk mail which he culled from the pile and deposited in the wastepaper basket. He almost threw it away along with the rest of his junk mail,, but on closer examination, he decided that the letter didn't look like most junk mail that…

John Thelin, an university research professor, discusses in his journal, the reason why colleges used to cost so little years ago and why it cost so much now. He presents a major source that is composed of enrollments, institutional data on finances, and research from summary charts in Edwin Slosson 's 1910 anthology, Great American Universities. It contains statistical assemblage in categories such as "endowments, revenues, expenditures, cost per student on education and instruction, cost per…