Summary Of Gladwell Marita's Bargain

Gladwell’s essay about KIPP schools, tells us that it is in a poor neighborhood in New York City and the students that attend there are mostly from financially disadvantaged families and are what is considered, minorities. Although, KIPP is a low-income school it has gone against the negative expectation and is one of the most desirable middle schools. Gladwell is an English-born Canadian author and is a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996, most of his books and articles often deal with implications of research in the social sciences. The essay, “Marita’s Bargain”, was written to inform families

Malcolm “Gladwell is known for typically analyzing aspects of daily life, offering intriguing ideas about social phenomena and human behaviors.However, KIIP is a school that african americans and hispanics are going to; many of the students were not very successful with their education and as well with their test result some of the average of level grades were not really improving as much they had a very low income score kids were somehow failing in the classroom. Although, many can actually improve by having the ability to ask for help when they are struggling on something they don’t understand at all with their skills of math or etc they will have the average to improve better on the result of there

The author, Gladwell's, research focuses on KIPP Academy a public middle school in the South Bronx, New York City. Children enrolled in KIPP live in the poorest neighborhoods and are randomly chosen by lottery to join the school. Their goal is for students to acquire an opportunity of education similar to higher class student. KIPP proves that despite their economic situation, students can achieve high academic grades with time and dedication. They believe students should spend more time in school studying to become successful. Students vacations are limited since they make student’s learning procrastinate

Martia is a 12 year old that's on the poor side of the story. Marita got a Opportunity to go to a KIPP school a school that turns losers into winners, so she took it. Marita begins telling her story: “ I wake up at five-forty-a.m to get a headstart… I leave school at five p.m…Start my homework.And if it's not a lot of homework that day, it will take me two to three hours” (264). She does that every day, Marita has got an opportunity and is making the best out of it working her hardest. “Her community does not give her what she needs. So what does she have to do? Give up her evenings and weekends and friends.” (266). Gladwell says referring to Marita. Marita has really committed herself to the KIPP school and to her work. You see with one chance and opportunity that usually wealthy kids get, the poor girl, Marita made something out of it. If poor and wealthy kids get the same amount of opportunities and wouldn't be such a gap in test scores between the

Additionally, Albert Einstein once said, “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” There are different forms of intelligence that go beyond what our school system measures. Students are not a unit to be measured, and students cannot be assigned a numerical value to identify their intelligence. Students are diverse—they learn at different speeds, and they learn in different ways. Focusing solely on test scores is hurting our students and deviating away from building our society on success and excellence. Critics are slowly realizing the problems associated with standardized tests—they create anxiety, they are extremely biased, and they do not measure the ability to think deeply.

Malcolm Gladwell, the author of Outliers, a novel depicting success, provides different examples of how an individual can achieve success in every chapter of his book to show his audience that success, despite a variety of barriers, is in fact in our control. A very important chapter titled, “Marita's Bargain”, explains the flaws in today’s public school systems. He shows the problems with the solutions to fix them while showing the alternatives to the regular system such as the KIPP Program in New York. The KIPP Program (Knowledge is Power Program) is a new kind of middle school that selects students from less fortunate locations and uses unique teaching strategies to turn them around into fantastic learners. In the chapter, Gladwell is extremely descriptive by using visual words to paint the picture of the South Bronx in New York City. He describes the buildings that were built in the 1960’s as squat and bleak looking. Gladwell had an interest in this subject as it involves success, however he had no prior experiences to produce the piece. Gladwell establishes personal credibility through the use of knowledge, reason, and facts and figures. He comes across very knowledgeable on the subject presenting great data with excellent vocabulary. He is able to do this with no obvious bias as well. Gladwell shows authority because he is well known for writing novels that involve success. His intention is to teach and explain how schools need to change the length of vacation breaks

In his article “the perils of “Growth Mindset” education (2015), Alfie Kohn argues that people have been obsessed into trying to get the children to develop the growth mind-set instead seeing the flaw in the system we use to educate them. To Kohn, the way we praise our children can give them bad influences, make them feel incapable and lose their passions. Dreck’s growth mind-set is based upon this theory and our teaching method is revolved around this structure. That is why changes in the system must be made, and Kohn suggests encouraging students in learning what they love is more beneficial to them than stressing about grades or achievement.

According to Gladwell’s article a national organization of schools should be built on character. Knowledge is power program (kipp) allows students to do so by creating a foundation based on the SSLANT protocol. This protocol is where a student is taught to sslant (smile, sit up, listen, ask questions, nod and track during class. SSLANT is highly successful when it comes to the subject of mathematics, unlike a regular educational system these students that are enrolled in KIPP schools find the subject to be that of their most liking when they complete the course. In addition the KIPP educational system believes in a student attending a class discussion

Whether we realize it or not, test scores play a vital role in many people’s self esteem. A person who frequently scores high will be confident that they are very intelligent and will expect others to see them that way. Asimov attested to this when he stated, “All my life I’ve been registering scores like that, so that I have the complacent feeling that I’m highly intelligent, and I expect other people to think that too.” (Asimov, 536). On the other hand, those who score low on tests often write themselves off to be unintelligent. Emphasis on the importance of the ACT or SAT test scores can lead an adolescent to conclude that he or she is not capable of succeeding in college and lead them to not pursue higher education. The tragedy is that we may pass on opportunities because we have labelled ourselves unintelligent based on a test score which is not a true refelection of our

may be argued that, the rapid changes in the present world have provided the pressure that is demanding for changes of the education system. Nevertheless, the changes are likely to partially solve the problems being experienced in schools by teachers and students. No clear approach can be embraced to improve the current complicated education system. Teachers are never sure on what they should do to the students that do not make efforts to learn or when they are discouraged after failing or when they perceive that some assignments are difficult. Just as Dweck acknowledges, one cause of such behavior is due to the fixed mindset that most of the students believe in regards to their intelligence.

The main points of Dwerks article was that many people are pressured to be “smart”. Students often question their intelligence based by a fixed mindset. A fix mindset is comparing someone who you think has more intellect then yourself because people often confuse having a talent/gift instead of working hard to achieve that goal. Self esteem has a lot to do when it comes to accomplishing your goal. When students don't understand a problem or when it becomes difficult they automatically shut down and perceive themselves as being dumb. Brainology changes that outlook by having a growth mindset instead of putting yourself down, they still want you to challenge yourself. Its not about who is more smart its about who puts the most effort in their

After reading Seal’s article which stated that Americans often thought kids are born smart while Asians more often believed that studying makes a person smarter, I was reminded my own personal beliefs on intelligence and I realized that I have thought people could get smart by exerting effort since I was in the last year of elementary school in Vietnam. Therefore, I empathized with Seal’s attitude that success and achievement are a result of working hard. I could remember that I got this attitude when I was in an important final exam which decided where my middle school was in the next year that depended on my score. In this exam, the math test was an extremely difficult test for every student because it had a strange math problem which my classmates and I had never studied before. At first, I had spent for 2 hour to solve this problem, but I didn’t succeed. So, I wanted to give up. However, I was worry about my score and thought about my mom, who hoped that I could get the high score enough to enter a famous middle school. Since I didn’t want to disappoint my mom’s wish, I tried to solve this math problem again and again and again. Eventually, I was successful to solve

The two main ideas of “The Secret to Raising Smart Kids” are that fixed minded people are less likely to accept a challenge than growth minded people and that parents can do their part to help their child have a successful life by implanting a growth mind-set in their child’s brain. If more parents raised their children as growth minded individuals, this world would improve significantly.

As the 20th century turned into the 21st, there became an exponential increase in the competition in education. There became a sharp increase in qualified students applying for undergraduate education; thus competition for grades and extracurricular activities fiercely rose at the high school level. Yet, the competition among students and parents does not stop or start there. There are waiting lists for daycares and kindergartens across the United States. Before this new round of competition in education began, finding a reliable source of motivation for children and youth has been a challenge for teachers and parents alike. As the United States is a capitalist country, some parents and educational professionals are trying to motivate students with money. Furthermore, money as a motivation for students extends beyond class grades, but is also used to motivate students to prepare and perform well on standardized testing. New research shows that the affects of cash as a motivator for higher test scores are inconclusive. Since 1989, educators have been aware that there are multiple kinds of intelligences. Standardized tests, particularly during the 21st century, have been found to be biased on top of that these tests do not engage all nine types of intelligence. Within this context, the paper will ask and attempt to answer if the use of test scores as a measurement of academic potential is

As early as I can remember, I always excelled in my classes. I felt like at the time I was without a doubt an above average student. I often recall my instructor Mrs. Shek from third-grade saying, “Wow you are smart Jonathan”. Even my fourth-grade instructor Mr. William’s would often write comments on my essays like “Good job you outdid yourself”. My self-esteem skyrocketed early on, confident in my ability to excel; I felt I was ready to take on the world. My teacher’s comments had reminded me of a quote from an article I read called, “Brainology” by Carol S. Dweck. Dweck stated “In the 1990’s, parents and schools decided that the most important thing for kids to have was self-esteem.” (2) Its said that if we felt good about ourselves, we would be set. Little was known of the consequences of