Students need to be focused, and this focus drives them to succeed. Many students, due to different circumstances, lose their focus. This can always be disastrous for their well-being as well as their future. An on-site daycare at colleges will also reduce the number of students missing class or absenteeism. Class attendance facilitates learning in a variety of ways.
Society thrives on the philosophy of allowing children to do what they want when they want. When in reality these students are often are acting up or failing grades to get attention from parents and mentors. Neo-Scholasticism allows students to become internally motivated. Students who have internal as well as external motivation to finish school will be less likely to drop out of school. While, factors such as constant absentness, unwanted behaviors, and low grades influence drop-out rates, school that have stricter guidelines and repercussions for the factors might make students think twice about their actions.
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.
Question d) Using material from item A and elsewhere, assess the view that social class differences in educational achievement are the result of school processes such as labelling. (20 marks) Social class background has a powerful influence on a child's chances of success in the educational system, a child is often labelled from the first year of school based on their class background, in the society there are significant social class, gender and ethnic inequalities of educational achievement. Some explanations of class differences in achievement focus on internal factors within school and the educational system. Labelling is linked to other processes within schools that result in class differences in achievement, these processes include the self-fulfilling prophecy, streaming and the polarisation into anti and pro-school pupil subcultures as stated by Item A. The self-fulfilling prophecy is a prediction that comes true simply by it being made, which leads to a student’s underachievement.
The study found that the counsellor judged pupils largely on their social class; this therefore put them at a disadvantage as middle-class students were placed on higher level courses. The self-fulfilling prophecy is another internal factor that can be linked to social class differences in achievement. A self-fulfilling prophecy is a prediction that comes true simply by virtue of it being made. Some sociologists argue that labelling can effect pupil’s achievement by creating a self-fulfilling prophecy. This can be seen in a study of a primary school by Rosenthal and Jacobson.
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.
In Ruby Paynes opinion, teachers can change a low income students life just by establishing mutual respect. The teacher needs to care about the student and be sure to give the student the necessary skills to advance throughout life. This is somewhat like one of the education theories, symbolic interactionist theory. Symbolic interactionists limit their analysis of education to what they directly observe happening in the classroom. They focus on how teacher expectations influence student performance, perceptions, and attitudes.
This helps people keep the workload manageable in GFirst and productivity high. By helping others, you make everyone’s life at work easier, plus you are helping to create a happier working environment. * One of the most important things that help make team-working effective within GFirst is, working in teams allows for a greater pool of ideas and solutions. Working with different people allows for the use of individual skills and knowledge to come together in order to find a solution. This is generally a more effective way of working, as the team will finish the task more quickly.
By not allowing them to further their education causes the resources that these kids are being provided with to go to waste. “Most immigrant families have a positive net fiscal impact on the United States, adding $88,000 more in tax revenues than they consume in services” (Kane and Johnson 31). We have invested time and money into these students, and they acquire the dream of being able to achieve upward mobility in order to break the downward mobility cycles. Many of these students have been striving in school and have taken the right paths, only to be impeded from achieving a higher education. This is an issue that we need address and fix in order for the State of Oregon to successfully combat the recession that we are currently facing.
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