THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION November 8, 2002 -- vol. 49, no. 11, p. B7 The Dangerous Myth of Grade Inflation By Alfie Kohn Grade inflation got started ... in the late '60s and early '70s.... The grades that faculty members now give ... deserve to be a scandal. --Professor Harvey Mansfield, Harvard University, 2001 Grades A and B are sometimes given too readily -- Grade A for work of no very high merit, and Grade B for work not far above mediocrity.
Mark Twain, the author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, made a good choice to include controversial words in the book to show racial injustice and should be taught in schools. The fight on racism is one of the most important parts about the book, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Twain uses satire to poke fun at people and show them they are wrong; twisting their beliefs. Satire is used on anything from religion to racism to stereotypes. A great example from the book is when Pap goes on and on about how government lets blacks be free, “It was ‘lection day, and I was Just about to go and vote, myself, if I warn’t too drunk to get there; but when they told me there was state in this country where they’d let that nigger vote, I drawed out” (Twain 20).
THE SAVAGE INEQUALITIES OF PUBLIC EDUCATION IN NEW YORK The author Jonathan Kozol explained this story very well in detail. The main points the author wanted to explain was he wanted to show how the education system was not fair how it operated, and that money played one biggest issues affecting children’s education. He wanted show the readers what some of the struggles that children who attended unprivileged schools went through education wise. He wanted the board of education know how unfair the system was and made it aware. I believe that Kozol tried to find reasons why was this happening to the schools and at times during the story he tried to show that race was playing a part of the schools stability money and educationally wise.
Due to the fact that the Negros are brainwashed by their oppressors, they believe their inferiority to the other races to be true. The oppressor starts the mis-education of the Negro in school. School is the most powerful factor that an oppressor has because he has full control over the Negros thoughts and believes. Every race would be brainwashed and manipulated if “The thought of the inferiority is drilled into [them] in almost every class [they] enter and in almost every book [they] study” (Woodson, 2). This is not an educated person; this is a person who is trained to fit society according to the oppressor’s standards.
Annotated Bibliography Annotated Bibliography Boese, E. (2011) Standardized Tests: Shouldn’t We Be Helping Our Students? In Reid, S. The Prentice Hall Essential Guide for College Writers (pp. 342-348) Englewood Cliffs. NJ: Prentice Hall. In his essay, “Standardized Tests: Shouldn’t We Be Helping Our Students” Colorado State University student Eric Boese (2011) passionately expresses his assertions that standardized testing is degrading the quality of American education; he argues (specifically with the intent to persuade readers and in particular test policy setting politicians) that standardized tests are too difficult and fail to properly measure and motivate the qualitative performance of both teacher and student.
America Is Stupidly Shutting Out Immigrants. Isn’t It? By Katie Baker | NEWSWEEK Published Apr 18, 2009 From the magazine issue dated Apr 27, 2009 Bottom of Form Ever since 9/11, the general perception has been that America is over-building walls—both real and regulatory—to keep out immigrants. Horror stories about Indian engineers getting strip-searched as suspected terrorists provoked business leaders like Bill Gates to argue that the U.S. is scaring away talent, to its own disadvantage. Now the storyline has shifted, to focus on immigrants who are voluntarily leaving or avoiding America because the global financial crisis has tarnished its reputation as a land of growth and opportunity.
CHIEF DEFENDS CONTINUED EFFORT TO CRACK DOWN ON ROWDY PARTIES - This article employs stereotyping by ageism The very opening paragraph of this article employs a stereotype by ageism. By stating that “student rowdiness is declining”, it suggest that all the parties and rowdiness are cause by students. Society already has a negative view on students that they all party and get intoxicated and by writing an article like this it adds fuel more belief to that myth. These parties could easily be started by non-students which the author of this article should have stated. TAKING AIM AT TEEN HOODLUMS -THIS ARTICLE EMPLOYS STEREOTYPING BY AGEISM.
Gloria Anzaldúa was a prolific writer coediting with Cherríe Moraga and was a sixth-generation Tejana. In her essay, “How to Tame a Wild Tongue,” Anzaldúa argues that American education makes it hard for one person to understand their own cultural identity while adapting to American culture as well. She claims that the education system is focused around only American English language and pushes out other cultures. Students from other cultures can’t even speak their own language and have to stick with speaking in English. Anzaldúa argues that this can lead to linguistic terrorism which is when a person feels uncomfortable about his or her own culture and feel awkward talking in their native tongue.
Click www.ondix.com to visit our student-to-student file sharing network. The Crucible In the past, present, and undoubtedly in the future, deceptive individuals take advantage of the anxieties and fears of society. When a society's insecurities are exposed and raw, a disconcerted mood spreads throughout the people. This contagion can engulf an entire population and become like a living entity, causing people to act rashly and hypocritically. Whether or not the fear is justified, a convincing individual can exploit a certain mentality called mob psychology.
The particular news piece portrays teenagers in a negative method by the use of language and structural features. Higgins has written her article in a criticising way in order for the readers to perceive all teens as destructive and out of control. The language features that have been included in the article are, negative emotive language, intensifiers and exaggeration. Whereas, the structural features that were used include the use of bolding specific information and the general order of the information. Due to these factors the article ‘Party crawl turns ugly’ by Kate Higgins, which was published in the Townsville Bulletin is a bias