College Academic Performance and Attitudes towards College Educational Experiences: Differences between Private and Public High School Leadership, Curriculum and Teacher Requirements.

College Academic Performance and Attitudes towards College Educational Experiences : Differences between Private and Public High School Leadership , Curriculum and Teacher Requirements

Introduction (about 6 pages

There are a wide range of contributing factors that dictate how students will response to the transition from High School to college one major influence has to do with the discrepancies in the curriculums between private and public High school education . Chairperson of the Department of Education at Rutgers University , in her essay From Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work Jean Anyon analyzes this

very concept of underprivileged education . Anyon argues that different levels of educations are available to young people depending on their social class . This mostly applies to schools in different districts and social communities and it can particularly be seen in the difference between private and public schooling . To make the concept clear , she further applies this to a of a kind of mental segregation happening within the classroom in which , students sitting side by side are rewarded differently solely based on their socioeconomic standing in the community . She does this by stating .students in different social-class backgrounds are rewarded for classroom behaviors that correspond to personality traits allegedly rewarded in the different occupational strata - the working classes for docility and obedience , the managerial classes for initiative and personal assertiveness (Anyon , 1980

An example of Anyon 's theory at work is the fact that project based learning prepares students for more open-minded assessment , and prepares them to handle real...