This way, researchers have found that the result of reward programs will be better for kids, especially for those kids who are struggling the most. At the same time, KIPP found that rewarding for the actions they can control, works better on kids. In the case of Fog city school district, many of the high schools have received negative accountability report cards in truancy, achievement gap and test score. It means students are not doing well, and teachers and parents can’t control them. In my opinion, they definitely should try PASS, which they are planning to do.
Different types of schools help as parents have more choice and freedom of where they want their child to go. Single sex schools also help as it is thought that females do well when there are no males to distract them. They also get better exam results. Academy
Cultural deprivation can effect achievement due to lack of the right language skills. Bernstein (1975) identified that working class pupils use the restricted speech code, whereas, middle class use the elaborated speech code. The elaborated speech code allows middle class children to use a wider range of vocabulary and more complex sentences, on the other hand, working class use limited vocabulary, simple sentences and use lots of hand gestures when talking. Bernstein believed that it was the differences between the speech codes gave middle class children an advantage over working class children in school. This is because the elaborated code is used within textbooks, by teachers and is the language an examiner expects the child to use within their exam.
Agree with the question Paragraph 2 On one hand sociologists would agree that a pupil’s home situation is more important than the type of school they attend. Parents who get involved in the students education by showing an interest and helping with homework are more likely to encourage a child to do well at school. Parental influence can affect someone’s educational achievement as if a student’s parent hated school as a child and didn’t get the grades they needed, it can cause the student to act the same. On the other hand it could cause them to progress better in school as they will want to achieve more than their parents Marxists believe students who come from a working class background tend to do worse than students who come from a high class background; this could be because of material deprivation. This is a big influence on student’s educational achievement as they do not have enough money to buy the necessary equipment for school such as revision guides.
Critical Analysis In “The War Against Boys” the author, Christina Hoff Sommers, stated that times are changing and boys should “watch out” in school. She states that girls are starting to be more benefited in school then boys in the educational system, that girl aren’t considered the “second” sex anymore, and that girls are statistically better than boys in academics. I personally agree that times are changing and that boys aren’t getting any special treatment and girls are on the same level as boys, and that they also are better in school then most boys. This to me has a lot to do with that growth gap that there is between both genders, girls start developing at a much earlier age then us, thus letting them learn things at a much faster rate
The following day she reversed the situation and found that a similar scenario occurred but with the blue-eyed pupils achieving better marks than the brow-eyed pupils. In a follow up to the investigation ten years later, Elliott found that the experience had made the participants more tolerant to differences between groups and that they were opposed to prejudice. The implications of Elliot’s informal study were investigated by Weiner and Wright (1973, cited in Eysenck, 2002 pg 194), by a similar study. They also found that exposing children to prejudice in a protected environment helped them to understand it and therefore reduced it. However, both the investigations were carried out in school environments
A funding formula is a formula that gives a school the same amount of funds for each pupil. This can affect a working class child’s education because if other schools have a higher fund because they are more popular due to better exam results then working class children are unlikely to be able to get a placement at that school so they will be silt-shifted to a less popular school which has lower exam results because of its lack of funding due to its lack of pupils. However, this idea can be criticised because if an unpopular school gets too bad they will be put into special measures by ofsted, this then gives them more funding to try and help improve the school, if this is achieved then their popularity will improve. Silt-shifting is when a school off-loads pupils with learning difficulties who are expensive to teach and so get poor results. This benefits middle class pupils as all the troublesome students are removed from their school it means the teachers have more time for them to improve their grades thus making the school more popular because of their rank in the league tables then letting them cream-skim thus improving the school further.
It was said that one ‘solution’ to the ‘problem’ of inequity was to ‘educate the parents’ (Thomson, P 2002, p. 3) and encourage them to ‘supervise’ their children whilst doing homework. This suggests that with the parent’s encouragement and reinforcement towards the child, they are more likely to want to succeed and feel they have the right to succeed, instead of there being a boundary between the advantaged and disadvantaged children. The parents of both Vicki and Thanh want the best for their children, to graduate and achieve a ‘university’ (Thomson, P 2002, p.2) degree. However Vicki is more likely to succeed because of her parent’s educational background and will be able to provide the support that she needs going through school, whereas Thanh will have to find other sources for educational help because his parents do not have the knowledge that he
There are social class, gender and ethnic differences in how pupils succeed in education. There has been debate about the reason for these differences. I will assess the views that factors and processes within schools is the main reason for the differences. A self fulfilling prophecy would cause achievement differences between the two social classes, as teachers would label middle class children as smart, will do well etc and working class kids as unruly, lazy etc. then the teacher treats the pupil accordingly eg gives them more attention and work, ignores them.
Studies show that charter school students make greater academic progress than students in traditional public schools. Sixty-four (64) percent of California's charter schools met student achievement targets on state tests in the 2008-09 school year compared to just 58% of non-charter schools. (CCSA site). Another idea that charter school offer is they have learning centers that provide additional resources for children that might be behind in a subject by having before and after school tutoring with the teacher or and aid that specializes in that subject, teachers are able to give test in small groups with children that are at the same level and work with them to help them