The Memory Experiment

A recent study released by Pearson that questioned over 400,000 students in grades 6-12 shows that only “48% of students think their teachers care about them…and only 45% of students think teachers care if they are absent from school” (Hare, 2015). This shocking statistic demonstrates what American students think about their teachers. Most students are under the impression that their teachers don’t care about them. When teachers don’t care about their students and allow them to fail, many students with unrealized potential give up on education. Mike Rose’s “I Just Wanna Be Average” describes his journey through high school on the vocational track after the results of his “tests got confused with those of another student named Rose” (Rose, 1989, p. 2).

Evidence of the first factor arose during the States investigation when they identified that while Adam was in fifth grade, he once stated, “that he did not think highly of himself and believed that everyone else in the world deserved more than he did” (Sedensky, 2013, p 33). Additionally, a teacher remarked that he was intelligent, but not normal, with antisocial issues. Overall, he managed fairly well until he was in seventh grade, this is when his mother noticed a significant deterioration in his behavior. Others described him as being quiet, barely speaking or even participating and very hard to communicate with. More importantly, his writings had a disturbing amount of violence in them, throughout middle school.

Blatt and Kaplan shared the story of one attendant with one assistant who tried, to the best of their ability, to care for 100 severely mentally retarded ambulatory adults. Some care options consisted of the use of restraints, lack of clothing, and solitary confinement due to lack of manpower not necessarily because of patient behavior. Even though the difference in the quality of services is from one end of the spectrum to the other, my frustration with trying to provide a quality education for approximately 100 special education students with duties being divided between two special education teacher, who spend an extreme amount of time on paperwork and very little on direct instruction, three para’s, and one speech-language pathologist who only works two days per week is an injustice to my

An Authoritarian parent would punish their teenager immediately and not find out why they were late. They simply see situations as black and white. A authoritative parent would be upset and worried and ask questions about why their child was late. Then they would come to a rational decision on whether it is punishment worthy. It could have been a flat tire, traffic, and miscommunication.

Hierarchy of responsibility is all about clearing you conscious of the wrong doing. Many times the teacher asked who's responsibly for the student and the doctor would respond that he is. This makes the people believe that they are distant from the consequences of the student. They won’t be held responsible thus allowing them to continue without the feeling that it is their cult. Social contract is about someones word.

"But this is the Day, the scientist predicts, they say, they know, the sun..."(Bradbury 2) and William interrupts her by saying,"All a joke! ''(Bradbury 2). This soon leads to Margot getting locked in the closet against her will. The quotes above explain the vocal authority of William and how he really has a problem with interrupting and screaming when trying to prove someone wrong. The students inability to stay loyal to Margot ties into the similarities of peer pressure today.

For Starters, the Juvenile Justice center doesn’t help some of the troubled teens. According to “Report: Juvenile justice system schools “do more harm than good”, it states, “Overall, 30 percent reported they had been physically or sexually abused, 37 percent had problems with hearing, sight or teeth, and 20 percent “wished they were dead,” according to the report.” So not only are the teens not being helped out, but they are getting abused physically and sexually. Some of these teens were probably bullied or are having trouble at home. If these teens were to get the proper help they needed they most likely wouldn’t be harming themselves or anyone. The report found that most of the students there has learning disabilities, emotional and behavioral

The least convincing piece of evidence is the study that was done in North Carolina. The study concluded that, “some 35 percent of the respondents said they had witnessed their colleagues cheating in some fashion, whether by giving students extra time, suggesting answers, or manually changing their students’ answers” (32). This piece of evidence is invalid due to the fact that the study is basing all the data off of people’s words and there is no concrete evidence to back up what the participants had

Passion & Aggression Ender once said, “To learn how to truly fight in war, I must show passion and aggression.” During the story of the Ender’s Game, Ender feels like he’s stuck in between love and war. As the story of Ender’s journey goes on, he’s known to fight with so much aggression which makes him feel bad because he makes people not want to ever fight him again. In several parts of the story, Ender feels terrible after showing his aggression to someone because of his passionate side. In the beginning, before Ender left Earth, Ender used to get bullied in school by another kid named Stilson. It came to a point when Ender had to defend for himself.

After the experiment was over, the subjects were debriefed to explain the gist of the study. The slow pace group with no-witness control group were less likely to exhibit effects as opposed to the fast pace and witness group most likely show effects. The subjects were amazed how easily manipulated their perceptions of their own behavior could be. The results of the dependent variable show how the subject’s behavior was influenced by the independent variable. The results show that 69% of the 75 subjects (3 subjects did not count) signed the confession sheet when asked by the confederate.

The experiments began in July of 1961 at Yale University. Milgram put an ad in the paper for male participants to help with an educational study. The participants that had been selected were paid just for showing up. The experiment involved three people: the scientist (actor), the learner (actor), and the teacher (participant). The learner and teacher would randomly draw to find out who would receive which role, but it was fixed so the participant would receive the teacher every time (McLeod, 2007).

2012, p. 25). This criticism suggests the involvement of NCLB as a force perpetuating the "School to Prison Pipeline" connection. Other criticisms of NCLB include: the standardization and pressures of testing, the effort to privatize education, and its lack of effectiveness within the classroom due to the pressures of rigid federal expectations. Studies suggest that the reform did not lower drop-out rates, but put substantial pressures on schools. In Meir and Wood 's Many Children Left Behind, in Houston, Texas, where "much of the NCLB legislation is based... the district claimed a dropout rate of 1.5%" when, in fact, at one particular high school, about 25% of the students left during the 2001 - 2002 school year, and were labeled as continuing their education or going back to their home country; although, they had not claimed of doing so (Meir and Woods,

A study was created and sampled a Texas middle school. “The Breaking Schools’ Rules study revealed that excluding students was an extreme yet common practice, with 54% of all students experiencing at least one in-school suspension and 31% of all students spending on average two days at home at least once in their school career” (51). This also discovered the increased five times and three times more likelihood of a dropout from students who received exclusion from school. From the Texas middle school study it was found out that 97% of student exclusion were done privately and targeted students of color. It has been understood that defiance has become the biggest contributor to

The right path for students The article “In praise of the F word” by Mary Sherry suggests failure is the biggest motivation for students. However, “Sixty-six percent of all U.S. fourth graders scored below proficient on the 2013 National Assessment of Education Progress (…) meaning that they are not reading at grade level” stated the United States education department. Therefor failing students is not the only way to motivate them. Other effective ways are, students can form study groups, students can attend after school workshops, and Parents can talk to the principle. Indeed, many students have heard of study groups, but how many actually take the time to form one?

Long-term effects of chronic absenteeism include low socioeconomic status in adulthood, social and emotional difficulties, and psychiatric disorders (Kearney & Graczyk, 2013). This research seeks to improve attendance among students at Second Start Alternative High School. Many students are not receiving academic credit due to their lack of attendance. The target problem is defined as frequent absenteeism. Students who are not accomplishing an attendance rate of eighty-five percent can be determined as frequently absent.