”(Pappano 26) This means that a few number of students finished the MOOC. This takes grit which Gregory has plenty of. Gregory states that the “Desire to help is ingrained in my personality, and drives my plan to become a physician and continue my service to others. ”(Gregory 15) Gregory is a driven person
Rodriguez experienced the consequences of racial discrimination in the school system. One school he attended he could not speak Spanish because the teachers felt their being talked about, if caught you would have detention or sent home. The Chicano students there felt like they were “being neglected, treated like second-class citizens… denied access to school resources” (182), in comparison to the white students. Everywhere he went it seemed to be a road block, at home, his neighborhood, and
Sofia De La Torre is currently a hardworking, 16-year-old junior at Victory Early College. Sofia was born and raised in Houston, Texas by her parents who are persistent about her getting an education. Her goal is to complete high school with her Associates Degree along with a high G.P.A. Her dream is to become a pediatrician and have many scholarships that would cover most of the expenses for college. Sofia in the end intends to be the second person in her family to complete high school and go to college where she would graduate as a Pediatrician. Her favorite activities include swimming and reading.
In the article, “The Year of the MOOC”, Laura Pappano describes the future of education as open online courses. In the college essay “Chunky Peanut Butter” by James Gregory his writing shows characteristics that makes him equipped for the open online courses. The characteristics are leadership, being open-minded, and always being prepared to any work given to him. These traits is why I think he is the most capable for MOOC.
Growing up in a Hispanic family can be quite hectic. It may sound overwhelming, but it is difficult to keep up with American and Mexican
“Danny motivated me to go back to school and made me promise that I would no matter what happened,” said Cristina, “He knew how important it was and wanted me to have a good life.” Shortly after Cristina promised her brother that she would go to school, he passed away. “I didn’t go to school right away, but I knew that I would.” Needing a change, at 23 Cristina moved to Chicago, where she “saw a little bit more of the world and saw that [she] could go do more and be more.” While working in Chicago, she worked with people who had bachelor 's degrees and saw that she would really need to continue school in order to keep going with her
Salgado acknowledge studies on complexities of Latino youth transitions from middle to high schools with concerns declining grades, and concerns of low college graduate status. Although determining results are said to be unknown at the present time research studies are being conducted for transition variations. Gender differences with Latino families could contain a probable cause to the outcomes of school performances at the time of stated transitions, along with other measures such as instructor’s expectations between youth boys and girls. After the gathering of information through various studies conducted on diversities of Latino youth transition period from middle school to high schools, notification of studies could suggest several implications
Ben Zimmer’s article entitled “Chunking” from the September 2010 issue of the New York Times, raises the question: should collocation education be used to teach English? The article focuses on the importance of using chunking as a method in teaching and developing others in the English language. Zimmer uses examples of his son to illustrate his point that children unknowingly pick up myriads of chunks throughout the span of their childhood; he explains, “As Blake learned these pleasantries… I wondered how much-or how little-his grasp of basic linguistic etiquette is grounded in the syntactical rules that structure how words are combined in English” (133). Other chunks such as “Won’t you come in?” or “Make yourself at home,” are noted as common
Tatiana responded well to the intervention. Tatiana continues to make progress towards her goals. Tatiana stated, that “I feel anxious about meeting my mom, I feel confident that I will score a good grade in all my class, and I feel confused in my Spanish class”. Tatiana stated, sad, frustration, anxious, excited, anger, fear, and jealousy.
To me, being hispanic and born and raised makes me want to break all negative stereotypes of how must are not educated and do not have any way of succeeding. I want to make my family proud. I have had many experiences were being hispanic has made me work harder than I would have. The main place were I had to exceed was in school. I came into kindergarten with not knowing any english.
I’m the first generation of my family to be Mexican -American, but I have been introduced to the Mexican culture since I was born. I appreciate the difficulties my parents have faced to make me the person that I am today even though I wasn’t born in Mexico my parents have taught me the language and the culture which I’m so proud of being part of. For others being Hispanic is actually being born in any Latin American countries which is not true at all. Being Hispanic is much more than my cultural background it actually describes how much I appreciate my culture and how I get to experience things other people don’t. I fit into the Hispanic community through the experiencing the culture first hand ,participating in traditions and planning to include my culture in my future.
This would not only help them get degrees but also help them establish their future. While education prices are tremendously high, there is a solution: online education.
Teaching this respect have to be foremost duty of all teachers training curriculum. She relates the incident of who speaks Spanish, a Mexican American girl brought up in the Southwest whose life was initially a bit problematical. Her multicultural school they faced a lack of tolerance for nonmainstream societies that led to incidents of disrespect. (the Effects of Racism in School). However, it was only when a new teacher saw her potential over and above her color and encouraged her academic progress which eventually made her a renowned public
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Minghan Li Ms. Carmen Politics and International Relations 4B December 16, 2017 Is Online Education More Advantageous Than Traditional Education? As internet technologies advances, online courses rapidly grew in popularity. According a study of the Babson Survey Research Group, in 2014, there were more than 5.8 million students that are taking at least one online course in the US alone, which is approximately 28.4 percent of all enrolled students in the US (“Online Report Card: Tracking Online Education in the United States”). Although it is still in a quite early stage of development, online courses is said to offer the same, if not superior, education as on-campus courses. But is that really so?
