In 2006, the proportion of mothers with newborns that were in the workforce was at 57% (“Working Parents”, 2012). That number increased to 61% in 2008 (“Working Parents”, 2012). There are many single working mothers who have not finished High School or received a GED. This leads to problems down the road. Thirty percent of teenage girls who have dropped out of school listed pregnancy or parenthood as the primary reason (“Teen Pregnancy Prevention”, n.d.).
Michael Rutter and the case study of Romanian orphans in 1998 Aim: Rutter et al wanted to find if it was separation from the mother or the severe circumstances in Romania that was responsible for any negative effects Procedure: 111 Romanian children were assessed on a variety of measures of physical and intellectual ability when they arrived to Britain. Most of them had been in the orphanages from shortly after they were born. The children’s IQ was tested when they came in the UK and the average score for the Romanian orphans was 63.For those over 6 months the average was 45.Physical development was also poor,51% of them being in the bottom of 3% of the population for weight. They were also shorter in height than was normal for their age and had smaller head circumferences. The Romanian children were tested again at the age of 4 and compared to a control group of 52 British-adopted children who were 4 as well, who didn’t show any of the negative effects suffered by the Romanians.
Critique of “Will Your Jobs Be Exported” by Alan S. Blinder Starting in elementary school teacher’s begin to prepare you for standardize testing. You learn all this material, and test on it, learn the material… and the cycle continues. Kids who cannot test well drop out or fail and are looked down on by society , kids who succeed pass and continue on and are praised, the question is does that particular style of learning come in handy when all the American people jobs are being exported. According to an article in The Atlantic news paper “53% of recent college graduates are jobless or unemployed” so in the end are we not all equal? When all the jobs of the future go to personal service jobs, will American children only know how to test or fail or to invest all their time into schooling for professions that will not pay?
"Neglect" refers to cases in which the court found a child to have no proper parental care or guardianship, or to be homeless or living in a physically dangerous environment. Children for the control group were selected from county birth-record information and records of more than 100 elementary schools. They were matched as closely as possible with the abused and neglected group on age, sex, race and approximate family socio-economic status during the period under study. All together, the researchers were able to find matches for 73.7% of the abused and neglected children. In both the control group and the abused and neglected group, there were equal numbers of males and females and about twice as many whites as blacks.
Does transracial adoption affect child development? In the early 20th century most children that were adopted in the US were non-Latino white infants. Most adoptive parents were non-Latino white couples from the middle to upper class. Relaxed abortion laws and more accessible contraception decreased the amount of white babies that are put up for adoption and more diverse couples began looking at adoption as an option (Santrock 2013). Issues began to arise about whether or not transracial adoptions could hinder a childs development in any way (Bernards).
Third, the subsample for the study was for parents who adopted children whose ages fell between one and a half years and eighteen years old. They divided the sample into two age groups. The first called the younger group was with children ages one and half to 5. The other was called the older group and contained children ages 6 to 18. Interestingly, the statistics show that gay and lesbian parents do well with older children, but have a high percent adopt children that are between the ages of one and a half and 5.
Let us then take 4 urban schools from a Northern California East Bay district as examples. In 2005, two of these schools were labeled as “dropout factories”, where approximately 20% or less of 9th graders were promoted to the 12th grade 4 years later, as determined by research performed by John Hopkins University. The other two schools displayed the inverse relationship with “promoting power”, as they reported over 90% of 9th graders being promoted to the 12th grade 4 years later. While there are many differences between these schools, let us only look into 1 for the moment: curriculum. For the 2 schools labeled as “dropout factories”, curriculum and instruction information on their webpage only refer to the California Content Standards and mandated district requirements.
Everyone can see the effects separation and divorce play on older children because they can verbally tell you and it shows in their work performance whether it be in their grades in school or sports or overall negative behavior. However few studies have targeted on younger children and their psychological being or the effect of their cognitive behavior. This sample study targeted the first three years of a child’s life. The study included children of 73 single moms that have never been married, and 97 divorced mothers. It also had a group of 170 children from a two parent household (Clark-Stewart, McCartney, Owen, Booth, 2000).
They found that participants remembered about 90% when there was only a second interval; but this dropped to 2% when an 18 second interval was emplaced. Thus concluding verbal repetition prevents rehearsal of items being stored in STM decay quickly, so items last approximately 10 seconds in STM without rehearsal. One research conducted by Bahrick et al in America demonstrated the considerable duration of LTM by asking people of various ages to put names to faces from their high school year book. 48 years on people were about 70% accurate. There was a free recall test, photo recognition test and name recognition test.
The Future of Students Equals Change in Everyone The American people make excuses over and over about why our children are struggling in school, but the true question we need to ask is: why aren’t we doing enough to make a change? A few years ago the elementary school that my children attend had implemented a dual language program. After four years, my children were fluent in Spanish. This program was doing so well, that ninety eight percent of the children in the program tested out gifted. Unfortunately somewhere down the line, the school board members at the district, and state level didn’t think the program was worth keeping.