Marita's Bargain By Gladwell

Anaheim Schools are starting too early because kids aren't Physically awake. Anaheim students are expected to be on the school campus by 7:44 am and be prepared to learn. Most students come with their cup of coffee trying to stay awake due to lack of sleep so they have no physical motivation nor energy to learn or be prepared for a full day of teaching. If the student is well rested it’s more likely they will be more patient and take their time to understand what they are learning. In the Essay, Marita’s Bargain, writer Gladwell speaks about how students need more time in the classrooms to fully understand the lessons taught daily in schools. It takes students about 10-15 minutes daily to fully focus on something, so that by itself already

Students from low-income families don't have the chance to even try to teach themselves at home during the summer to try and savor the knowledge they learned.Gladwell suggests throughout the essay that it's better students “ Not have long summer vacation”(10). This can help reduce the loss of knowledge. Gladwell writes “ On a recent math test given to students around the world was how many of the algebra, calculus, and geometry questions covered the subject matter that they had in class. For Japanese twelfth graders, the answer was 92 percent. That’s the value of going to school 243 days a year”(9). The more time in school students spends the better they can remember what they learn. In Marita's bargain, Gladwell reinstates how he believes the answer to getting low-income students out of poverty is by education. What a student really needs is more time to truly understand his or her

Students now and days are getting less sleep at night due to feeling the need to stay up and study for an exam. Anaheim high schools can encourage students to care more about learning than how well students can do on a test. Looking at a student's test scores and their grades can be as if you’re looking at two different students. In Dweck's essay, she speaks about the many ways a student can be affected by their failure.“Such children hold an implicit belief that intelligence is innate and fixed, making striving to learn to seem far less important than being (looking) smart”(21). Some students will go far enough to even cheat on an exam just to seem smart. Students believe the medal is worth more than what you did to get there. When a growth-minded student fails a test, they strive to learn what they did wrong, growth-minded students tend to work harder to be average but will achieve more in the long run. In the secret to raising smart kids, Dweck’s research on 60 fifth graders shows that a child's road to success is paved by the way they embrace their failures. The students were told that you are either born smart or just aren't cut out for academics. This trial left some students believing they really could not change their brain but other students were determined to prove the test wrong. Some parents praise kids for standard achievements causing the child to develop a fixed-mindset. The child will grow up