That way I will able to discover the identity that has been overshadow by the cloud of anxiety. Besides being scared about the transition to college, the fact I am left independent makes me more nervous than ever. Instead of teachers providing you with the necessary tools and resources, it is up to me to find them. It feels more like a never ending scavenger hunt than an easy walk through. Ways to overcome this would be to have an organizer/planner so I can purchase and get the needed materials for the classes I am taking this semester.
Teaching the test seems to be conducive to improving test taking skills but real academic progression is not always represented. Additionally, Standardized testing is not an effective way to test the skills and abilities of today’s students. Standardized tests do not reveal what a student actually understands and learns, but instead only prove how well a student can do on a generic test. Schools have an obligation in a way to prepare students for life and with the power standardized tests have today, students are being cheated out of a proper valuable education and forced to prepare and improve their test skills. Too much time, energy, and pressure to succeed are being devoted to standardized tests.
The desire to want to be socially accepted and popular for some can also take on some form of stress for students. This does not exactly pertain to students of higher learning who take on different forms of stress in their collegiate lifetime. Higher learning students, those who have surpassed years of credible college education, face more of the basic form of academic stress. A heavy workload of examinations, homework assignments, and constant studying makes out for these students to be frazzled; with or without a job. A student under this category also deal with the pressure of figuring out what they will do with their lives
Students have little say over what classes they will take and when they will take them, as most of the classes are pre-arranged. On the other hand, college is voluntary and can be very expensive to attend. Because attendance is optional (and costly), students tend to be more motivated and are there because they have a clear plan for their futures. Generally, college professors will not hold students’ hands and will not offer one-on-one attention, unless asked. College professors expect students to be mature enough to understand the material or ask for help when they do not.
In other words, the contemporary pressure for money influences many lower-income students to enter college with inadequate funds, which ultimately forces them to drop out of college. Meanwhile, many universities struggle with a sufficient response to this alarming collegiate quandary. While Leonhardt fails to accurately represent certain points, his argument is certainly effective at explaining the relationship between education and socioeconomic class that contributes to the alarming rate of college dropouts. In his writing, "The College Dropout Boom," Leonhardt informs his readers that the probability for lower-income students to drop out of college is
Anthony Williams Julia Shattuck EN101 March 6, 2014 Competency-Based Degrees In the “Chronicle of Higher Education Commentary” article “Competency-Based Degrees: Coming Soon to a Campus Near You,” by Joel Shapiro, he argues that competency based degrees are good for students but bad for teachers. Students can get academic credit while taking fewer courses. For the teachers though that means fewer jobs for them because students would no longer need all the extra elective courses. It seems as if he thinks competency based programs will be the future of colleges and help students get to where they are going faster. The author does not support his argument because he does not give any statistical information, just his opinion, and he expresses his opinion in a biased fashion.
Getting a college education is something that most of us strive to get our entire lives. While many of us strive to do well in high school in hopes of getting in to a college of our choice, nowadays we can find many people enrolled in “profit colleges” that focus more on the money aspect rather than giving knowledge. “Profit” colleges such as University of Phoenix encourage people to take out an outrageous loan for education that ends up being a burden to pay for in the long run. In the movie, “College Inc” it states that “Around 44 percent of students who take out federal loans to attend a for-profit college default on those loans.” After watching “College Inc,” I had no idea how much of our education was being offered online. Many of these
The athlete who receives their degree will not have a proper education and the proper skills to make it in the real world. I believe that these organizations are robbing this from these people. Troy Vincent and Johnette Howard could not of said it better, “The fundamentals of our academic institutions is for someone to get a quality education and when the focus is not on this the whole model is broken.” The external pressures that influence these organizations are relieved by giving in and providing them with what they want by taking away their student athletes education. It is about winning losing and not about educating these individuals. The institutions have financial obligations, someone is getting paid and it is not the college student.
Students could study different fields such as Air Conditioning repair to animal care to automotive technician. These courses have fallen by the wayside because of the emphasis on college degrees. Skilled labors such as cooks, mechanics, and nurses are in high demand. High school student have come to believe that working one of these jobs means failure. John Ratzenbereger alleges the “The celebrity culture has stigmatized the American high school student to think that only low-class people work with their hands, and so goes the implied message”.
Because of this, the motivation of students wanting to go to college decreases. They assume that they can get a well-paying job without the necessity of a college degree. Donald Hossler, director of the research