University-preparatory school

Most High school student believes that a college education can only help them get the job of their dream, while they ignore the impact college can have on their life. University of Maryland President’s and Chairmen of President Barack, Obama advisory commission, Freeman Hrabowski, examines the culminant role college plays in life in his article “Colleges Prepare People For Life”, published on December 22nd, 2013 in the Baltimore Sun, a daily newspaper. Throughout the article, Freeman gives…

debts from their college education. The ridiculous amount of college tuition has put many Americans into a tough situation. Politicians and public figures have urged the youth of America to pursue a college education. However, private and public universities continue to inflate their college tuitions giving students no choice but to pay up for a “brighter” future. This continuous trend has buried newly grads with an uncontrollable debt. Although forgiving student loans provide troubled graduates…

I read your proposed argument on a controversial educational issue. Your first draft I feel is a positive beginning to your argument for students to obtain more freedom in the classroom. The way you've incorporated the three authors you used in a good tactic, but I would include the page numbers with the author's last name when pulling a quote from a text source. The statements you've provided in your argument to compare and contrast the different ideologies felt by the authors adds depth to…

Rising Costs of Student Loan Debts Concept Conceptualization Student debt is a phrase with which most of the people in the elite society are familiar. This refers to debts that are owed by students who are in school, graduates, as well as those that have dropped out of school. Education is one of the earliest investments in the lives of most people, especially now. Therefore, it is impossible for some people to avoid incurring these debts. However, there is a problem that has arisen over the…

the readers question what is going in today’s society and high level education schools. The one point that the authors stick to consistently in the article is how everything is changing and not for the best. The way in which the authors do this is unconventional,…

“Academic degrees are a lifetime honor. Once you have one, no one can take that away from you.” That’s what my father and several academic advisors told me as I contemplated seeking my undergraduate university degree several years ago. Yet some of America’s best colleges and universities are putting political correctness ahead of traditional academic policy by stripping the once-popular TV comedian Bill Cosby of his honorary degrees, in response to allegations that Cosby sexually assaulted…

Purpose: The purpose of the study was clear in the introduction section of the article. It states that the purpose of the study is to find the relationship between the transitional stages of college students and their physical activity behavior changes. The study wants to examine college students’ perceptions of physical activity as they move through the behavior transitional stages. The hypothesis for the outcome of this study was that college students were at risk of being inactive at this…

So far my most experience in PCC has been positive. I have known many new people and learned lots of knowledges during these months. The classes I have taken are College one, English 100, 901, Math 15, Japanese one, and Classical guitar one. However, things are not always go through smoothly as I expected. When I took my guitar class, I expected that all the students in my class were supposed to be as the same level as I, a beginner. But, it seemed like that everyone knew more than I did…

High School in southwestern Virginia. The students all surprised the administration staff when they showed up to school wearing clothes that were emblazoned with the Confederate battle flag. According to school officials, this was a violation of the school dress code and the school policy in general. Because of this action, all 23 students were suspended for the day, but the students of Christiansburg High School had more to say about the topic. Students say that they disagreed with the school…

Forum B unit 3 - “The First Five Minutes” How important are the first five minutes of the class? The first five minutes of the class are as important as the first impression one must leave during a job interview (you only get one shot at it). Those first minutes are crucial because it is during those first five minutes, or so, that teacher and students connect. What message and impression is passed on to the students by the teacher may very well determine the outcome of the lesson to be…