Case Study: Marita's Bargain
Gladwell, Malcolm. “Marita’s Bargain.” Collective edited by Beers, Hargen, Jaga, ects, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015, pp. 3-14.
Low-income students are less likely to graduate or attend college than wealthy students. Reasons being because wealthier students are able to attend education courses not financially available to the less fortunate. KIPP (Knowledge is Power Program) is a non-profit, public charter schools educating early childhood, elementary, middle, and high school students. Students average a 60% higher success rate. In conclusion, low-income children a high opportunity to succeed in real life and become a better person. Knowledge is power and it does not come naturally in most cases. Intelligence is developed and grown over the …show more content…
Mad Hot Ballroom was originally introduced to 5 graders in New York public school system. Within a short period of time, this program has expanded to Manhattan, Brooklyn, Bronx and Queens. This program of dancing with all sorts of music helps develop the students minds. Teaching new ways of learning, life lessons like the sport of competition, leadership and self discipline. All the way from marengo to swing was taught and performed like professionals. Unlike Marita's Bargain where in this program called KIPP uses music as a class that consists of orchestra and has the students play an …show more content…
The idea of single-sex classrooms are to prevent these distractions in the classroom to improve the percentage of passing, and it has. But is this idea of single sex classes a violation to the basic rights of the students? The students should be able to decide whether or not they would want to be apart of this idea of separating boys and girls. Unlike “Marita's Bargain” with the dance competition where it had boy and girls interacting with each other much more than when in the classrooms, dancing, and with this the children became very successful students that carried on through
Low-income students are less likely to graduate or attend college than wealthy students. Reasons being because wealthier students are able to attend education courses not financially available to the less fortunate. KIPP (Knowledge is Power Program) is a non-profit, public charter schools educating early childhood, elementary, middle, and high school students. Students average a 60% higher success rate. In conclusion, low-income children a high opportunity to succeed in real life and become a better person. Knowledge is power and it does not come naturally in most cases. Intelligence is developed and grown over the …show more content…
Mad Hot Ballroom was originally introduced to 5 graders in New York public school system. Within a short period of time, this program has expanded to Manhattan, Brooklyn, Bronx and Queens. This program of dancing with all sorts of music helps develop the students minds. Teaching new ways of learning, life lessons like the sport of competition, leadership and self discipline. All the way from marengo to swing was taught and performed like professionals. Unlike Marita's Bargain where in this program called KIPP uses music as a class that consists of orchestra and has the students play an …show more content…
The idea of single-sex classrooms are to prevent these distractions in the classroom to improve the percentage of passing, and it has. But is this idea of single sex classes a violation to the basic rights of the students? The students should be able to decide whether or not they would want to be apart of this idea of separating boys and girls. Unlike “Marita's Bargain” with the dance competition where it had boy and girls interacting with each other much more than when in the classrooms, dancing, and with this the children became very successful students that carried on through