According to Oreopoulos, states that have increased the compulsory attendance age have seen a decrease in dropout rates and an increase in post-secondary education attendance. This has impacted the disadvantaged youth population. A valuable piece of advice I received from a teacher is that, students that do well are the ones that pay attention in class and in order to do that you have to attend
Block scheduling provides students with more instructional time, less homework, and a varied of instruction. Block scheduling is a restructuring of the school day whereby students attend half as many classes, for twice as long. Some educators believe that the traditional six or seven period class day represents a failed effort
There are a number of strengths and limitations of using unstructured interviews to study pupil subcultures. Pupils may be in articulate or reluctant to talk, so unstructured interviews give them time and space along with encouragement to work out their responses. However, younger pupils have a shorter attention span so they may find long unstructured interviews too demanding as they can be quite time consuming. They can take several hours each and pupils are restrained to their timetable. There is also the need for training and the interviewer needs to have a background into education increasing the cost.
It would also be reasonable to suspect that the effect of coaching might be higher for certain types of students- for example, students who scored lower on the PSAT, students who don’t receive private tutoring, and so forth. Results of another study suggest that coaching on the math section of the SAT is most effective for students with strong socioeconomic backgrounds, students who perform well in their high school math courses, and students who are actively involved in extracurricular activities. (Briggs). Research by the College Board, which also administers the SAT to more than 1.5 million students a year, found that students can
People in poorer communities tend to face harder obstacles like a bad home life, hard economic times, and influences that push dropping out of school. These students also have to deal with old, out-of-date school supplies like textbooks-even their teachers tend to not be as qualified as teachers in wealthier school districts. Furthermore, due to standardized testing, teachers in these poorer school districts tend to teach to the test by teaching with the drill-and-kill method where kids are being taught by memorizing certain multiple choice questions and answers (Neill 29-35). Surprisingly, high-stakes test like promotion tests are the main contributors to retention of students- most of which have learning disabilities. Retention, though, has proved to not help students academically.
While most complain about the bilingual programs being put into school, we have to think about the benefit of this as well. Most professors agree that this is a beneficial investment; children that are schooled over in Europe often times learn multiple languages, it would help the children to educate them with a foreign language (Martinez 3). While yes, immigrants in our country may sometimes cost a little bit extra money to us through taxes or to the government, for the most part it all evens out and we gain it back in some other
Assess sociological explanations of gender differences in education (20 marks) Exams results for GCSE and A level have shown that girls are doing better than boys even in the traditional male subjects like maths and science, although boys are slightly improving, they are not improving as fast as girls are and this is dues to many external and internal factors. An external factor of why girls are achieving better than boys in education is because there is now changes in the attitudes, ambitions and roles of females in society. Sue Sharpe’s (1994) did a study on working class girls in the 1970’s and found that girls main priorities were love, marriage and family. She then did the study again in 1990’s and found that attitudes of females have changed as girls now believe a career and being independent is important. Sharpe’s believe this could be because of the changing attitudes of society in general towards women and the impact of feminism.
If we needed Average daily Attendance to determine what would or should be the proper funds attendance rates would lower the funds that would be allotted to my school and schools overall. We cannot control the attendance of others we can only encourage great attendance. The school districts that service and educate a large number of students are given more money because it is divided on a particular amount of money, or funds per student. In many under privileged areas they see more
These critics argue that reducing class size is not only the matter that causes students to achieve high scores and do better academically. According to Catharine Lewis, an expert on the Japanese educational system, the reasons behind the student’s academic success in Japanese schools are “the cumulative general of self-reflection, rather than by rewarding and punishing”. Meanwhile, the Japanese academic calendar is 40 days more than the American academic calendar that enables teachers to spend more time with their students. Furthermore, they are from one ethnic group and are not coming from diverse families and do not have different languages. (Zorpette, 2001).
Many argue that the funding of sports teams in educational institutions should be cut. Some parents, educators and students believe that these expenses are too costly and distracting from the fundamental core subjects, such as English, math, history and science. This one-sided perspective actually sidetracks these advocates from the fact that school sports teams benefit students in numerous aspects. The funding placed into sports teams in educational institutions influence students by teaching teamwork, reducing the chances of obesity, and enhancing academic behavior. Being on a sports team teaches teamwork.