Nathan Nguyen Professor Mary Composition I 14 September 2012 In the article “The Case Against Grades,” Alfie Kohn argues that grades make students afraid of explore new things; tests and quizzes are not the ways to measure knowledge .“Assessment-based grading” creates an allusion on how well are students doing in a numerical way. The effects of grading can come in numerous ways. Kohn indicates three crucial conclusions of grading: decrease in self-motivation, diminish in taking scholarly risk and “reduce in quality of students’ thinking”. Don’t on the students, they’re only listening to the message; they’re rational. For many years, adults have send them the message success is more important than learning.
According to John Taylor Gatto and Michael Moore in “Against School” and “Idiot Nation” the American Schooling system deceives the public into believing that it is being educated when in fact both men agree the system is conforming Americans into childish consumers bereft of truly significant learning. Both of the authors discuss consumerism in their stories; John Taylor Gatto does not discuss it as indepthly as Michael Moor, but he does mention it on page 154, basically saying that school trained children to almost not think at all… (Gatto 154). Michael Moore speaks on consumerism for about a length of 22 paragraphs at a minimum. “The schools aren’t just looking for ways to advertise, they are also concerned with the students perceptions on various products… Companies conduct market research in classrooms during school hours. “ (Moore 141).
English Persuasive Essay In light of the recent shark culling issue, it has come to many Australian citizen’s attention that something must be done about this situation. It is a situation of ‘kill or be killed’ and the question must be asked as to which is more important: A human’s life or a shark’s life? Sharks already suffer enough from being slaughtered to be put in Shark Fin Soup or for medical research and should not be culled, as they are such an important part of the natural world we live in. Why else would they have survived for longer than the dinosaurs? It is imperative that we look after these majestic creatures and ensure they remain protected.
There are many points made that can clearly push the overall answer one way, or another, its just about balancing out the positives and negatives. Cullington explains that texting can potentially hurt formal writing, but is proven to have no positive or negative affects in the long run. There are many concerns about text speak and formal writing. Cullington talks about how teachers see a decline in writing and are having problems in class because of text speak. “A Minnesota teacher of seventh and ninth grades says that she has to spend extra time in class editing papers and must 'explicitly' remind her students that is is not acceptable to use text slang and abbreviations in writing” (Cullington 89).
Academic Honesty GEN 105 February 27, 2011 Academic Honesty The first article I read was Academic Dishonesty in Traditional and Online Classrooms: Does the “Media Equation” Hold True, by Erik w. Black, Joe Greaser and Kara Dawson, published in December 2008. I found it in the EBSCOhost database using the keywords academic honesty and online. The article is also peer reviewed. The issues related to academic honesty in this article are that there is not many statistics of cheating in online courses as there is in face-to-face education. So it makes it hard to know if the students cheat more in online education.
Part 1 The table shows data from an experiment by social psychologist Stanley Milgram into levels of obedience to authority amongst 'ordinary' people. How would they behave in a moral dilemma between authority and wickedness? The headline row labels the 2 numerical columns directly below, which show the average level of shock administered and the proportion of participants who obeyed until the maximum voltage. The extreme left column labels pre-trial predictions, the original study and 2 variations. Row 1 shows that before the experiment students predicted a relatively low, (140v), level of shock would be administered and that none, (0%), would comply to the end.
The Spectrum was produced by school funding, and Principal Reynolds felt the pregnancy article, though names were changed the students were still recognizable. And believe students’ parents in the divorce article was not given a chance to respond to the article. Acknowledging there wasn’t enough time to make the changes in the article he simply cut them out. The court felt his concerns were “Legitimate and Reasonable” JUSTICE BRENNAN (Dissent) JUSTICE BRENNAN (Joined) JUSTICE BLACKMUN (Joined) Hazelwood East High School student participated in Journalism II they did as a civics lesson. The Spectrum was there newspaper and responsibility, “was not just a class exercise.
RWS 200 students will find Goldwasser’s article much less persuasive after understanding how the sources she uses, like Common Core and the NEA, are taken out of context in her whirl-winding assault against educational learning, and supporting the Internet. Many rhetorical strategies are used in Goldwasser’s “What’s the Matter with Kids Today?” to persuade the audience of her credibility. The introduction bombards the reader with statistics of Common Core surveys and other figures to present a sarcastic and mocking account of Goldwasser’s opposition. The teen blogging specialist rebuts that the older generation is afraid (through ignorance) of the power of the Internet. In order to maintain her credibility, the word “we” is used to identify herself as a member of this older group.
Jose Anthony Escamilla Escamilla1 Sanders English 1301 March 27th,2013 Self Expression/Self Control In the article “Just Be Nice”, author Stephen L. Carter has written an argument based on civility in society today. He has written about the lack of education on manners, morals, and the etiquette of Democracy “Carter” (671). He begins with a brief example of school in his days and how they took the time to study manners. Not only the magic words “please” and “thank you” but more complicated etiquette questions, like how to answer the telephone “Carter” (671) Carter then gives an example of how things are today, to what extreme changes have taken place in our school system, to such extreme that when today, instructions on manners and proper etiquette are attempted to be taught to our children, it makes the news. “Carter” (671).
I feel that "extinction" is not something that has to happen, but happens because humans do not take care of the natural world, the way they should. Many extinctions, including birds and other living creatures, can simply be avoided if humanity put it in their best interest to change the way we run our ecosystem, considering how much these beautiful creatures help us maintain this earth. One of the greatest threats a bird endures is habitat loss. Birds from all regions such as forests, wetlands, grasslands, mountains, etc are losing their homes and resulting in their extinction. Another threat as previously mentioned is from humankind.