Teresa Watanabe Analysis

Why spend hours doing homework in college, when you could have done it in high school? “The Advanced Placement program has revolutionized high school classrooms around the United States. The program offers rigorous, college-level education to motivated students, and offers the benefit of college credit.” (Mattimore A33). AP classes can be very beneficial to students. These courses reduce the amount of money and time spent in college. They also are more beneficial than college intro classes. Lastly, these classes help prepare you for the workload of college.

Here’s the deal: I ended up taking AP Music Theory over Organic Chemistry my senior year of high school. Did people tell me that was wrong to do because I want a career involving chemistry? Yes. Do I regret it? Absolutely not.

The way a person speaks is a direct link to a person’s culture and the environment which he or she was raised in. A person’s language, skin color as well as economic status influences the way he or she is perceived by others. Lisa Delpit and eleven other educators provide different viewpoints on how language from students of different cultures, ethnicity, and even economic status can be misinterpreted due to slang and dialect or nonstandard English by the teachers as well as his or her own peers.

Everybody has a different definition of success. Success can be interpreted into having happiness, having knowledge, and being financially stabled. Most people describe it as being patient and having a positive mindset. Malcolm Gladwell, author of Outliers, demonstrated how without the knowledge of other cultures, there are many things that people won’t consider questioning or realizing about it. He also showed how people need to adapt to a new culture in order to achieve success since it affects how society deals with culturism today. Some cultural legacies have very high standards than others into achieving goals and dreams. Cultural legacies impact today’s

According to the 2015 Building a Grad Nation report, low-income high school students are graduating at a rate 15 percentage points behind their more affluent peers. The graduation rate is decreasing because of a problem that is affecting more and more students which is the opportunity gap. The opportunity gap is a barrier that low-income and minority students encounter when wanting to be educationally successful. The opportunity gap enlarges when students are lacking in resources, services, and experiences. This problem is mostly occurring to low-income and minorities students because they don’t have the advantages to afford the same resources as the privileged students. Because the opportunity gap creates inequality, minority and low-income

The article “School vs. Society in America’s Failing Students” (2015), by Eduardo Porter reveals the debate surrounding the reasoning behind the failure of America’s educational system. Porter efficiently utilizes logos to fulfil his purpose of informing his audience of the multiple sides of the situation.

After gaining a better knowledge of Chican@/Mexican-American individuals, it is clear there is a lack of understanding towards these unique cultures and narratives in exchange for assimilating students into a larger American culture. While some students, like Mora, are able to balance both their heritage and finding success in their education endeavors, many students either fail to achieve high success or drop their culture in exchange for not only the more dominant culture, but also higher levels of success and understanding of course material.

At the end of every year of high school, students get a lengthy list of courses to pick for the next year. Among the list are numerous AP courses that students ponder over. The common question asked by these students are, is that AP class worth taking? Some don’t think twice to take it and others bravely choose their AP course of choice. There are AP courses offered for more than 30 subjects and at more than a hundred schools. (Edwards). AP courses have been around since the 1950s, and trying an AP course has been encouraged by teachers, counselors, and college admission officers all around the world. Now what are these AP courses, exactly? AP stands for advanced placement, and they

Being a student in high school is hard. Being a student at Minnetonka High School is even harder. Minnetonka is a unique place where being a “nerd” is cool and students compete to see who can get the most volunteer hours. MHS students are bombarded with expectations from their parents, teachers and peers to excel both in and out of the classroom. In order to meet these expectations, many student have to sacrifice sports and other extracurricular activities that they love in order to keep up with their demanding schoolwork. Other students settle for less challenging classes because they allow them to continue with their other passions. Other students such as myself take both rigorous classes and dedicate themselves to out of school activities

In the 1988 film Stand and Deliver, high school mathematics teacher Mr. Escalante embarks on a mission to teach calculus to his students, despite the difficult circumstances he and each of his students face. Throughout the movie, he pushes himself, his class, and his family to their limits, often putting in extra hours at school without pay and by working with little support from his school. When his entire class successfully passes the Advanced Placement Exam, he and his students face even more difficulties when the community and the Education Testing Services accuse them of cheating on the test. However, Mr. Escalante continues moving forward, and prepares his class to take the exam a second time, which his entire class passes once again,

I checked to see if the student meet the minimum eligibility index for incoming freshman. Local and transfer applicants will be given priority during admission. I also looked to see if the student challenge themselves by taking rigorous course and participating in extracurricular activities (community, work, volunteering).

Wolfran speculates on individuals from higher society view others who speak dialects that are not of Standard English as inferior, “Proponents of the deficit positions believe that speakers of dialects with vernacular forms have a handicap-socially and cognitively-because the dialects are illogical, sloppy, or just bad grammar” (Wolfran 17) Standard English is the main dialect used in schools and for testing such as the SAT. He also explains how not being fluent in Standard English may be problematic when it comes to test taking, “Standardized tests assume that test-takers are proficient in Standard English, and proficiency in other dialects may be defined by standardized measures as disability (Wolfran 87) Not being able to understand the question that is asked could be a correlation to lower test scores. Wolfran criticizes schools that do not accommodate students who speak other dialects by stating, “When schools do not systematically accommodate

All students are unique in their own way. In any given classroom a teacher is designated to, he/she must be able to cater for diversity. Students are diverse is many ways, for example, their motivation level, personalities, disabilities, interests ,language, learning styles, abilities, cultural background, socioeconomic background, past learning experience and their social economic states; therefore each student will learn differently because of their individuality. In catering for diversity in my classroom, I will create a number of strategies which will assist all students in fulfilling their learning needs.

Class ranking is a mathematical summary of a student’s academic record compared to those of other students in the class. It usually considers both the degree of difficulty of the courses a student is taking (AP, honors, college-preparatory or regular courses) and the grade the student earns. The selection of courses and grades are converted to an overall grade point average (GPA), and the higher the grade point average, the higher the student’s class ranking. Most small private and competitive high schools have stopped recording class rank because they feel it penalizes many outstanding students who are pushed out of the top ten percent of the class and then overlooked by elite colleges. Although most public high schools still rank students,

As a student sometimes we experience tougher challenges in our academic life and sometimes were not able to accomplish, so it cause as to fail. So what is academic failure? Academic failure is the student was not able to meet the required passing grade in a subject. But the question why does a college student experience it?