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- 221: Effects Of Social Pressure On
- ... successful academically. However, the higher the proportion of minority members in a group, the more likely they are to be successful. She also suggested that the presence of female students in a male dominated law school tend to affect their achievements. She also claimed that minority students are perceived as tokens or symbols and not as individuals. There are three main characteristics of a token student that can be explained as ... according to these stereotyping. Using these 3 characteristics of social pressure, she hypothesized that female students with fewer female colleagues will do less well academically (i.e. performance pressure), will be less integrated into law school (i.e. isolation) and will chose stereotypical female careers and studies (i.e. role entrapment) Spangler, Gordon& Pipkin (1978) tested this token hypothesis. They investigated female law students in a male dominated law school. They operationally defined the 3 social pressure characteristics of a token student as follows: for performance pressure: grades, volunteering to speak in class and answering yes or no to a question about considering withdrawal ...
- 222: Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
- Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools Imagine sending your children to a school such as the schools in East St. Louis, where they are overpopulated, under-staffed, under-supplied, and well below safety standards. Well, this may be a nightmare for some parents, but unfortunately, this is a ... minorities, blacks and Hispanics. The schools, like the children who attend them, are very poor. There is very little funding available for children's education because unlike the suburbs, tax money has to meet non-school costs such as: police and fire department expenditures and public health. All are in competition with public schools. The schools in these areas are over crowded, limited in supplies, under-staffed and unfit for teaching ... as elsewhere in America, local funds for education raised from poverty taxes are supplemented by state contributions and by federal funds, although the federal contribution is extremely small, constituting only 6 percent of the total school expenditures" (Kozol 56). Children living in the poorer districts, usually minorities are simply ignored. The difference in the type of education an individual receives according to where he/she lives, amount of income, and ...
- 223: Embracing The Past To See The
- Mike Rose s I Just Wanna Be Average essay sheds light on troubled youth within the public school system. It makes you long for the days of American pride and service. Students placed in tracks to utilize overcrowded and faulty test systems. Identity lost due to poor instruction and lack of motivation. The ... quest to advance America as a whole. Civic pride and duty were influencing every aspect of American education. Both essays draw from the influence of education into the societal path into American mainstream society. Each school system is influenced by thoughts of bettering youth, but in much opposite ends of the spectrum. The French commission stated that the youth of America were offered the same curriculum in the hopes to form ... the French, was a land of golden opportunities available to every child regardless of social standing. It was the basis for our country to survive. It safeguarded our standing in the world. Mike Rose s school offered quite the opposite. It was a haven for long standing views on school being selective as to whom actually deserved the education. The only hope of the present school system is a few ...
- 224: Kaffir Boy
- In the book Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathebane there are many obstacles that Mark the protagonist has to overcome. The first of his problems was to get through school in his poor South African ghetto. The second was to achieve his goal and receive a tennis scholarship to an American college. Mark s father is one of the major antagonist, he was opposed anything to do with Mark getting an education in a school. He was a very traditional man and he didn t like anything that had to do with the white man . He thought it was nonsense to get a whiteman s education and he wouldn t provide the money that was necessary to get Mark through school. Mark was helped through this situation by his Mother who was the person who wanted Mark so desperately to attend school. She decided to go against Mark s Father and send Mark to school. ...
- 225: Cutting Class
- CUTTING CLASS Cutting class in high school has many drawbacks. Students in high school need to realize that a good education is very important for many different aspects of their lives. A high school education has a very high impact on a student's future. First of all, high school students need to realize that attending class is very important for a good education. When students decide not ...
- 226: Kurt Vonnegut's "The Lie": Portrayal of A Moral Society
- Kurt Vonnegut's "The Lie": Portrayal of A Moral Society In the short story, "The Lie", by Kurt Vonnegut, the author portrays a moral society. He does this by displaying a private prep school as perfect. This wealthy preparatory school, the Whitehill School For Boys, is welcoming and accepting of the new state requested integration of Africans in their educational institution. Vonnegut's characters display no harsh feelings, resentment, or distaste towards this course of action. Whitehill ...
- 227: The Catcher in The Rye: Chapter by Chapter Summary
- The Catcher in The Rye: Chapter by Chapter Summary Chapter 1 --------- The story is about Holden Caulfield, who is a boy who has just been kicked out of school. He's walking down a hill, were they are playing football. He's on his way to Mr. Spencer, an old teacher of his. It is cold and much wind. It's winter. So he ... asks him a lot about what subjects he's failed last term. Holden tells him he didn't fail English, but that was only because they had something that he had done before in another school. Mr. Spencer asks Holden to give him the exam paper on top of his chiffonier. He reads the paper out loud to Holden and after that he gives Holden lots of advice, but Holden gets ... has to go to the gym, which is a lie. Chapter 3 --------- Holden thinks by himself that he is a really terrific liar, and notices that this is actually pretty awful. He returns to his school, Pencey Prep. When he's in his room, in the Ossenburger Memorial Wing, he's trying to read a book, but Ackley, a guy that sleeps in the room next door, comes in through ...
- 228: Mediation
- ... benefits. Since the numbers prove the effectiveness of mediation and mediation is supported by our government, why would we not choose to implement mediation’s techniques in other branches of our society, such as our school systems? The fact is that many schools have started mediation programs, however not all schools are as lucky as others to have such programs. Franklin High School’s mediation has one of the most, if not the most, elite mediation program in the Portland Public School system. Franklin may also be at the top of the mediation ranks of the entire state. Being a mediator for the Franklin High School program, this researcher is able to vouch for the program’ ...
- 229: High School Graduates and Rights Denied
- High School Graduates and Rights Denied High school graduates are considered adults. They are eager young pioneers ready to face the real world ahead of them. However, they are denied certain rights. No one person should be denied their constitutional rights. Actually, it ... by the constitution. People should have rights if people can handle them. Can we handle our rights? Maybe some of them can not, but why deny it to the others. They, after graduating from high school, have the power to enlist in the military. In the military they are free to drink and go into adult dancing parlors after the age of eighteen. The military is a respected institution known ...
- 230: The School Takeover In Michigan
- The School Takeover In Michigan Educators across the country are failing to adequately prepare our children for the future. The state of Michigan has recently been campaigning this idea for this reason; nowhere in the state is the problem more prevalent than in the city of Detroit. The schools of Detroit have been sadly criticized as some of the worst in the nation. The Detroit school board and the state government seem to disagree on the problems and solutions. Recently, the state of Illino8is conducted the takeover of Chicago’s schools and has had very positive results. The problem is evident ... expect these students to go to college with the lack of preparation our schools have (or have not) given them? Not only are our schools graduating inadequately educated students, 29.7% of Detroit’s high school seniors are not graduating at all. (McWhiter, 6A) This means only one in three Detroit ninth-graders graduate in four years, and fewer than one in three ten graduates read at the 12th grade ...
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