Why Colleges Shower Their Students With A's Analysis

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Emily Horner Professor Lafond English Comp 1 9 October 14 Education Systems Over the last 50 years the college graduation rates has been unpredictable. There are many different theories that people have come up with as to why this is happening. For example, some theories include every generation of students continues to get even more intelligent than the one before or the curriculum that is being taught has changed. Brent Staples, author of Why Colleges Shower Their Students with A's, seems to think that it is all because of the administration. While on the other hand, Geoffrey Canada, education advocate from TED Talks, seems to think that curriculum and the business plan haven't changed at all in the last 50 years because people are…show more content…
Canada asks, “If millions of students were failing back then, and students are still failing now, why haven’t we done anything to change that?” (Canada, TED Talks). To make his point, he touches on the subject that the business plan for teaching hasn’t changed. If you were to ask a teacher now how they are planning on teaching their incoming students this year, they would answer back with, “I will teach them the same way I did last year.” Well, if students are failing, why teach the same way? As Canada points out, “No one seems to understand brain development so they are just going to teach the way they know how and hope that the student comprehends” (Canada, TED…show more content…
We have to innovate. And people get mad about innovation. They get angry if you do something different. But what is the harm in trying? What you are doing now hasn’t worked for 55 years so let’s try something new. Being completely honest, some of it is not going to work, but some of it will” (Canada, TED Talks). Canada compares this to technology. When people try to invent something and that way didn’t work, then they keep trying. If people didn’t keep trying at technology, then there would be no technology. The same applies to education. If one teaching method doesn’t work, don’t keep doing it, change it. The human race has benefitted from innovation, so make innovation happen in

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