Athletes that compete in college are players and students, not professionals. ... College athletes are given the name student-athletes, for being a student is to come before being an athlete. This demonstrates that being a student is the first priority within representing their university or college. ... Paying a college athlete would separate them from all the other students meaning it would demonstrate a higher level of importance to be shown that athletes possess over non-student athletes. Academics are set to be the most important thing at college, and if the NCAA starts paying athletes a...

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The children in wealthier areas are prepared all throughout grade school to attend college and be successful in life; whereas the latter is prepared for working class jobs right out of high school without even a second thought about attending college. ... They aren't expected to go to college; therefore their teachers don't bother to prepare them for college. ... If a working class student wants to go to college, then (s)he has to prepare himself with no real help. ... Not every student has the same advantages. ... The students are prepared for different types of jobs, not giving ...

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In this paper, I will contrast Smith College and the University Of Massachusetts, and discuss the ways in which cultural and socio-economic class is exemplified in higher education. ... I compiled a list of a few things that I would expect to find at Smith College based on my ideas about class. ... Smith College is located in the center of Northampton. ... First is the whole concept of a woman's college. ... Going to an all woman college gives women a sense of unity, self-confidence, identity, and surrounds them with role models that serve as examples that women do matter and can succee...

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In 1848 Queen's College was founded in London as the first school to provide training and certificates of proficiency for governesses. One early Queen's student. ... Reformers also turned their attention to higher education, possibly inspired by America where women had been first admitted to Oberlin College in 1837 and Antioch College in 1853, and where the first women's college, Vassar, was established in 1861. ...

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I know a person who is a minority who got into a very prestigious college. Clearly some affirmative action was in play, for some better qualified white students were not accepted by that school. ... We can't blind ourselves to the fact that there are poor white students as well. ... In many major competitive NCAA schools, academic standards are lowered for minority students who participate in sports. ... I admit that some academic standards need to be lowered to allow for affirmative action, but these days it has been abused by schools who care more about winning a national championship...

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There is also a difference in cultural capital and student involvement that implies high-class students are more likely to advocate for themselves while lower class students are not. These factors can set back a group of students while push others far ahead (Lareau, 2000). ... Latino students have also remained apart of this increasing segregation (Orfield 2000). ... Statistics on educational achievement by race or ethnicity show that white, black and Asian children have better school rediness skills than Hispanics ages 3-6.Inlater education, Asian and white students still achieve higher scor...

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These communication skills will help you in society by going to college, getting a job and making friends. ... By having friends you will be better off in college and throughout your lifetime. ... While being in sports it will also is very functional when it comes to scholarships and getting into colleges. ... As a whole sports are very important in a high school student's life. They help the student get ready for the real life and be part of a different social class. ...

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Most of college America goes to school and works at the same time. ... College students who have wealthy families either don't have a job or they have a job just to spend their time more wisely and to have extra money to spend. ... Financial aid helps out with tuition books and any other needs of an underprivileged student. What bothers middle class students is that they are too rich to qualify for financial aid but they don't have the money to pay for college. That's when middle class students take up jobs, apply for loans, and if a student is doing well in school they"ll apply...

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I agree with this because ninety percent of students attend public schools. ... Under the Clinton Administration, twenty percent more young people entered college. ... College seems to be very important these days. A person will benefit a lot if they attend college. ... This will better the education of every student. ...

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People with college degrees were almost always guaranteed a job in their normal fields. ... This has caused a lot of students to go into science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields. ... The middle class is notorious for having student debt because of the lack of scholarships and income. ... According to TIME, student debt is increasing at a fast rate; in the past decade, America's overall student debt has increased from $253 billion to $1.08 trillion. ... This trend of unreliable job security even with a good college degree is causing worry for all except the wealthy. ...

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However, our social system supports a wide variety of mechanisms to encourage educational attainment including mandatory school attendance and low cost loans and grants for college students, thus giving everyone a chance to be educated. ... About 80% of adults in the United States have a high school degree while only 25% have a college degree. ...

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"The standards are aligned with college and work expectations and internationally benchmarked.... This would exclude students from middle-class and low-class families. ... The fact that the US teaches students from different backgrounds was overseen, thus leaving a gap between students of higher income and lower income. In comparison to European and Asian students, American student test scores are low internationally. ... In 2013, when the effects of poverty were controlled, American students ranked near the top of the world. ...

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Starting as far back as 1899 the students of Colorado School of Mines and those of Colorado College would celebrate victory by using dynamite to blow up the rival's goal posts (Taylor, 1992). During one game the presidents of the universities promoted the final game, as "The top college in Colorado will win" (Taylor, 1992). By game time, most students from both schools were there to cheer their teams on. When Colorado College was down their fans, frustrated by the score and the name-calling, stormed the field at half time where a riot broke out. ... To encourage attendance and raise money...

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When Kozol asked the students of Rye, New York whether racial integration should be put into effect for their school, one student replied, "How could it be a benefit to us?... Other examples include parents spending "thousands of dollars for outside help, on top of tuition" in order to maintain a higher status among competing students (Anderson), or parents who pay to send their children on specialized vacations simply to enhance a college application essay (NY Times). ... The students of East St. ... The students of East St. ... Louis, and the students in the high school of Rye...

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Differential association theory, in both groups the saints and the roughnecks they displayed this theory. They acted out their deviance to be part of their groups. This is very common among high school age children. Sometimes called peer pressure. They need to belong to their friends and unfortunate...

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The formula of years engulfed in institutionalized instruction used to be an essential certainty illustrating that success in high school meant a chance to attend college, translating into a good profession and guaranteed prosperity for the individual, not to mention a lasting security for his family. ... Imagine the credentials of a beginning elementary school student whose teacher has used racial slurs while referring to him in a private student-teacher conference over academic performance. The student may think its ok to be referred to as one of these prejudicial name tags and accepts defe...

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For the girls who wanted get a high class job they needed to have good qualifications but women were still not allowed to go to university in the early 1800's and it was very hard to find a job without having a degree but then in 1880 Emily Davies and Barbara Bodichon helped to set up Girton College, the first university for women, but it was not recognised by the university authorities. ... Then in 1880 Newnham College was established at Cambridge University and by 1910 there were just over 1000 women students at Oxford and Cambridge. ...

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The fortunate can receive a college degree in a field, and the less fortunate may follow in their parents footsteps or pursue their own personal career either taking over the family business (which may not be a bad choice) or work extremely hard for insignificant pay. ... But, may the University be fair about how admissions accept future college students. ...

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A) Explain what is meant by compensatory education? Many children are culturally and materially deprived, especially in low income areas. This means that they are lacking in important skills, attitudes and values in everyday life which are essential to high educational achievement. To help these children, compensatory education was introduced by the government so that young children can learn how to behave in society and enable them to have more resources such as books and other educational facilities. B) Name two programmes of compensatory education. ...

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An individual report into alternative visions of education, including views about the role of education and the relationship between education and other social institutions Education for Work ! Introduction School was engineered to serve the economy and social order. It wasn't made for th...

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Upper class citizens are usually professionals, hired because of their college degrees. ... On a current survey on how much Asian nations spend on a single student per year, the Philippines takes one of the bottom spots, defeated by neighboring Asian countries like Thailand, Japan, Malaysia, all of which spends excessively on educating a single student (on an annual basis). ...

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(Peter Gutierrez 1999) In this study, Gutierrez's majority of samples came from predominately White adolescents and college students. 673 psychology students from Midwest universities were involved in the sample. ...

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Marketers must exercise care in analyzing consumer behaviour. Consumers often turn down what appears to be a winning offer. As soon as managers believe that they understand their consumers, buyer decisions are made that appear to be irrational. But what looks like irrational behaviour to a manager is completely rational to the consumer. Buying behaviour is never simple. ...

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