1. We had school today but few students attended class. 2. The students who are taking the GED exam in February are working very hard. 3. In the attic she found a trunk full of old dresses dried corsages and brittle letters. 4. Our class valedictorian who graduated with a 3.9 average won a scholarship to Harvard. 5. The teacher searched for the papers in her desk in the trunk of her car and in the oven. 6. She concluded that she must have left them in the bank that she accidentally recycled them or that she inadvertantly threw them away. 7. It is a bright warm sunny day. 8. You won't need your brown tweed jacket. 9. The students waited for an hour but the van never came. 10. They finally gave up on the van and started walking to school.
Inside the house there were “piles of Tupperware and glass dishes” (19). Outside there was a shed, garden, trees, and a river. There was an office. There were “brass numbers” hanging “on the front porch” (19).
b) Donna Gamble is a former prostitute and is a recovering alcoholic and IV drug user. Donna’s mother describes the shocking details of her childhood and the non-voluntary removal from her home, although no exact reason was stated, we are left to assume the reason was due to the sexual abuse she suffered from her father. Later in the story she reveals the reasons for voluntarily giving up custody of Donna. Unable to protect herself from her abusive husband/ pimp/ kidnapper, Donna’s mother sought the aid of social services as she was fearful for Donna’s safety.
a.) “She said I was wild and that I had no direction in life” (59).
California Exit Exam Fails the Test High school graduation exit exams continue to make news across the nation. California, along with 25 other states, requires students to pass a high school exit exam to graduate. The California version is administered to students at the beginning of their sophomore year and measures student abilities in reading, writing, and mathematics. If students do not pass the test, they are given the opportunity to retake the section failed or the entire test up to two times per school year in grade eleven and up to five times per school year in grade twelve. In addition to other graduation requirements, public high school students must pass the exam before they receive a high school diploma.
Since 2006 The California Assessment High School Exit Exam (CAHSEE) was required to be taken statewide by students to graduate high school. On August 26, 2015 ,Governor Brown signed the Senate Bill 725 by Loni Hancock, D-Oakland to cancel the state exit exam.
3. Based on the data presented in the graphs, how do you think each school should respond to the results of the testing? Should students drink the water in the school? Explain your answer.
For many American students, being valedictorian is quintessential in exhibiting the success one had in high school. The knowledge that out of an entire high school, one person has “topped them all” is a goal that many overachievers diligently strive for. However, despite how ingrained the valedictorian title is in the American high school system, some high schools in the United States have decided to split the honor, or even discard it completely. In a poignant protest, senior fellow at the New America Foundation, Margaret Talbot, in her essay “Best in Class” challenges the notion that the title of valedictorian should be abandoned. By analyzing the impact of different valedictorian policies, Talbot highlights the importance of the valedictorian status in American education by advocating for its continuation. Throughout her essay, Talbot maintains a subjective tone in order to eloquently convince educators and school administration to stick with tradition.
a. Griff’s sneakers b. Mary’s attempt to grab his dessert c. the empty chair d. all of these
There is more to every student than just their standardized test scores and cumulative GPA. Behind every test score and credit earned is the person who achieved those scores all while living a life. The behind the scenes of every students’ life is the most important part. It is what makes that 4.03 GPA even more exceptional, when the events that took place during that time are unknown. The struggles that were overcome and how every student did the best they could during that time.
“High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation” (Charles F. Kettering). Correspondingly, the Bolsa Grande High School Council decided to vote unanimously to raise the GPA from 2.0 to 3.0. The council felt that students should focus more in school rather than participating in a sport or a club. The school council made the correct decision because it develops work habits, helps students go to better colleges, and prepares students for professional life.
(b) Learners’ efforts and persistence in learning. For instance, students will achieve a high standard if they increase their level of attention and spend more time on a difficult object of learning,
State Exams are an unfair way of determining whether a student should or should not receive his or her diploma. Most students work very hard throughout high school to receive good grades. That should be enough to determine whether a student should pass high school. There are many intelligent students which do not have good test taking skills. State exams keep many good students from graduating and teachers have to narrow their lesson plans for these types of State exams. Sometimes they have to teach less because they have to make sure students are ready for the exams. So they end up going back over material instead of moving on. These are all good reasons why state exams should not be required in graduating from high school.
One of the common cliche is that “Students at Harvard never had below A Plus.” There are some truth to this adage. According to College data, it states that the average GPA was 4.04 - way beyond the average of UCs. The average SAT is even more ridiculous --2130 - 2400. Every summer, students, ages from 5th to 11th grade, go to SAT prep session to aim for the “perfect” score. When students at those ages
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Harvard makes sure that every student graduates out of there. It may seem simple to get through, however the hard part is getting in. In order to get into Harvard or other elite colleges similar to Harvard is getting they sort of SAT test score that is elite college material. Moreover, throughout the trip, we observed the different campus, such as the Harvard School of Engineering and Ap...