In fact, according to a study at the University of Missouri, they found that many students forgot over two and one-half months of whatever their grade-level equivalency is in mathematics. (Wilkenfield) Plus after the summer vacation, many teachers end up spending from four to six weeks of the next school year trying to review what had happened in the previous years, says David Payne, a former principal. Summer vacation is one of the only major times that parents are able to travel or take vacations, however, year-round schooling which allows small breaks throughout the seasons. Also, travel rates during the summer are usually higher than other times of the year. When students return to school after a summer break, there is often a long time period of adjustment.
Studies have shown that if two thousand students sign up for the fall semester at the end of the fall semester there is one thousand nine hundred and ninety students left. There is a 99% chance that if you sign up for the fall classes that you will still be in them at the end of the semester. The ten students that dropped out of classes most likely dropped out because of financial reasons, medical reasons, or they weren’t doing their duties as a student to be on class on time and study for tests, not because of the opposite gender. The opposite sex should not be affecting the retention rates. Students are not missing class to go scope out the opposite sex and to spend all day with them not attending any of their classes.
Causes Analysis: As to external issues, there are mainly three reasons causing overall industry downturn. Firstly, the nightmare of 9/11 deeply stroke customers’ confidence in traveling, leading to a drastic price cut. Secondly, many uncertainties, such as geographical climate, terrorism, terrifying virus, and increasing fuel prices, also gives great pressure to this industry. Thirdly, a fierce competition among three biggest players also gave great buyers’ power. The industry wide capacity is growing much faster than the demand growth.
The median family income, adjusted for inflation, is down over the past decade. Fewer and fewer Americans are able to fund higher education without student loans. In 2012, fifty-eight percent of families used savings and income to pay for higher education, down from sixty-six percent just a year ago. Family savings and income now funds just twenty-eight percent of college costs. Just four years ago, family savings and income accounted for thirty-six percent of college costs.
For every suicide among young people, there are at least 100 suicide attempts. Over 14 percent of high school students have considered suicide, and almost 7 percent have attempted it. Bully victims are between 2 to 9 times more likely to consider suicide than non-victims, according to studies by Yale University A study in Britain found that at least half of suicides among young people are related to bullying 10 to 14 year old girls may be at even higher risk for suicide, according to the study above According to statistics reported by ABC News, nearly 30 percent of students are either bullies or victims of bullying, and 160,000 kids stay home from school every day because of fear of bullying This is one reason, one out of many on why you should not bully. These people are depressed and from personal experience you are always down and you do not care about anything. Some people don’t care about other people’s feelings.
When the CDC asked Asian American students if they had seriously considered suicide during the past year, 19 percent answered yes, compared to 16 percent of all high school students. About four percent of Asian American teens reported a suicide attempt within the past year that required medical attention, compared to two percent of all students. Of course, not all teens who report sadness and hopelessness may actually be clinically depressed. But in 2003, social worker Teddy Chen, Ho’s colleague at the Charles B. Wang health center in Manhattan’s Chinatown, conducted a survey in which 1,032 healthy Chinese American children, ages 12 to 18, had undergone a professional mental health screening. In a finding that Chen calls “alarming,” the screening discovered that 12 percent showed signs of
Stress the Monster that plagues the unsuspecting College Student EGN 115 May 26, 2014 Suicide is the second leading cause of death amongst college students enrolled in four year institutions in the United States, Sonya Weisburd, the senior manager for Active Minds states that this statistic exists particularly because; our society tells students that ‘college is the best time of your life,’ while in reality, college life is significantly more complicated. The stress of college definitely contributes to increased rates of psychiatric distress. Stress is a normal factor of life but not all stress is good for you. The average college student has to juggle a fulltime course load, work, extracurricular activities, and social activities; though it is considered normal to experience stress with the combination of all these activities it should not be a way of life. Stress is defined by the National Health Ministries as being simply the body's non-specific response to any demand made on it.
Rosie Anaya, a student in college wrote an essay last year about the physiological problems that affect our college students called, The Best Kept Secret on Campus. These problems can range from anxiety to depression to acute bipolar disorder. She talks about the staggering numbers of students with these problems and the lack of help from the universities. In this essay she states that a 2008 study found that “62% of students have experienced feelings of hopelessness, nearly 90% have felt overwhelmed or emotionally exhausted, nearly 50% have been so depressed they have trouble functioning, 15% have been formally diagnosed with depression and almost 10% contemplated suicide. These numbers are surprisingly high; however a vast majority of students are not receiving the help they need to deal with these major disabilities.
Since the peak in 1994 with 11.0 suicides per 100,000, there has been a 34% decrease. In 2004, the rate was 8.2 per 100,000. The immense change in suicides among young adults have proven to, unfortunately, be rapidly increasing. Sadly, suicide has become the second leading cause of death among college students, accidents being first. According to a top mental health official, suicides outnumber homicides in the United States.
Engaging the Adult Learner by Student’s name Code+ course name Professor’s name University name City, State Date Engaging the Adult Learner Assignment INTRODUCTION Research has shown that most undergraduates usually study less, work more and take a long period of time to complete their degrees. This research conducted by Steel in the year 2010 revealed that only a quarter of the university students nowadays follow the “traditional” way of learning that involved full-time and residential learning. This poses a great challenge to the universities and other institutions of higher learning to rethink the undergraduate programs so that they can come up with a better program that offers distance education, part-time learning and even the crash programs that will enable a student to complete the course within the shortest duration possible. The group of “non-traditional” students comprises of members who are older than the “traditional” students. They prefer taking night classes because they spend their day working in companies and organizations.