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In “Why Colleges Shower Their Students with A’s”, Brent Staples explains and questions the reason behind grade inflation in colleges. Primarily, Staples discusses how college professors are stuck between pleasing students and the administration; therefore, being forced to inflate grades for the profit of the college. Staples mentioned that professors inflate grades to escape the pressure put on them from consumer-conscious administrators and to avoid the negative feedback from the evaluations…

There are many things that gets the world going. The weather, the humans we react with, and money, but When it comes to education it becomes an important factor. According to the New York times “Expanding Community College Access” There is a bill that is being proposed and that is to give free tuition for community colleges, but there is an argument that since tuition is averaged around $3300 they also give pell grants and other grants to poor and working class students that they get more…

Letter grades existed long before we are born. According to Mark W. Durm, “1883—At Harvard there is a reference to a student making a B. This apparently was the first use of a letter for a grade that can be found” (1). There are many great leaders attended schools and received letter grades; even our grand parents might have received letter grades in their life. Many people attended school and grew up with grades and every one of us is very familiar with grades. We fought for good grades to get…

together and allows a learner to get appropriate skills and competencies within the shortest possible time. After graduation, college education gives an individual better job prospects in life. This is because most institutions and organizations want to hire people who have some basic or fundamental leadership training. Moreover, in most cases, the best approach is to find a top job with a better chance of career progress, one needs a minimum of a college qualification. A Survey conducted…

I considered myself to be an anomaly of a high school student. Being a Latino Student, the odds were not in my favor that I was enrolled at a four-year institution. Furthermore, I differed greatly from tradition Latino students as I was 4th generation college student. I came from a college educated Latino family. Although most of my family was educated in Peru, many have since immigrated to the United States acquiring jobs that utilize their foreign college degrees. I attended a private…

Life experiences, both personal and academic have shaped my strong belief in the accessibility of higher education to all students. The societal benefits associated with attaining a higher education are undeniable it is disappointing there are such striking inequalities in who is granted access to college. As a student of the public school system it became clear there was a type of student who was given access to higher education. This student was usually upper middle class, white; having little…

College athletes get scholarships from colleges to play sports. The athletes put in a lot of time and energy to play on a college level team. Weather they should be paid or not is the question. Pro athletes get money to play sports, so why shouldn’t the college athletes. A lot of college athletes get hurt playing sports which end up hurting their chances of going pro. The controversial topic of paying student athletes has been brought up many times by both the schools and students. The…

In one of the Swahili saying denote that “a person bitten by a snake, when walks across a rope, fears it to be a snake.” No doubt poverty had a negative implication on my life. As girl, I loved to study, even though, I found forced out of school, after completion of primary school, for the reasons of insufficient schools, and the inability of my parents to pay the education costs in city schools. Thank God, I had a call for religious life, and accepted in the community without secondary…

In a place where media is as mainstream as reading, is there a decline of intelligence? Is there even plausible proof to deterioration of American intelligence? Mark Edmundson, author of “Who Are You and What Are You Doing Here,” and William Chace, author of “A Question of Honor,” both give their reasoning to this decay of intelligence. Both Edmundson and Chace examine the ways in which colleges and universities play a key role in the problem of “anti-intellectualism” in America. Mark Edmundson…

Are schools in England socially just? There are many different types of schools that exist, such as private schooling, payment by result schools, comprehensive/grammar schools, public schools and others. Many of these types of schools’ policies are socially unjustified. Education gives us all access to qualification in England. However there are still some people that get more than others, how is this fair? This could because of many things such as, girls have higher educational attainment than…